I wrote about my mom's relationship with a married man and how that played into her mental illness, in my memoir Girls, Assassins & Other Bad Ideas. One fact I'm continually reminded of is that so often, as children living in our childhoods, we can't recognize dysfunction for what it is because we lack any [...]
Have I forgotten what fire feels like? I mean, not real flames of fire, but the heart kind... the inside. The sort of fire attached to cliche sentiments like "pursue what sets your soul on fire". That sort of fire, not to be confused with the harsh moments of life which feel as though they've [...]
Every time I sit down to contemplate the lessons a month held, things feel so much heavier than they did the month prior. I'm not loving that trend. While it is completely unrealistic, as we're now halfway through this year of our Lord 2022, I'm going to hope this B:Side is gentler... June was a [...]
Let's talk about boobs, shall we? Not the sexy type of boob talk though, the annual mammogram kind. The check your titties for cancer or abnormalities kind... In late 2020 I had to go in for my yearly mammogram. These were the days when remote working was normal and the majority of us were still [...]
I don't know about you but I'm not quite feeling '22... Not yet anyway. For the first time in my four-plus decades of life, I am cautiously wary of transitioning into a new year. That may not be one hundred percent accurate... I was also fairly hesitant during the last few moments of 1999 as [...]
Rainy Day in May... 