Funny how his voice in this song made me think he was singing ratchet instead of rapture. I heard this song on Monday morning for the first time and have returned to it over and over again because of that word. I left my home to take Marlo
Mimi Parker of the band Low died on Saturday night following a battle with ovarian cancer. I recently wrote about seeing this duo in 1997 in a small house in Salt Lake City. I was in the midst of leaving the Mormon church at the time, start…
The following song is the fifth track on OK Computer, an album released by Radiohead 25 years ago. It has always been my favorite song, and I consider it to be Radiohead’s crowning achievement as a band. My best friend at the time thought t…
Manic Rambling Spiral (MRS) is a podcast about single parenting, but it’s not a parenting podcast. Rather, MRS is a podcast about living life – having a life, a career, and a self – in a setting that is constantly dictated by, built around
Every Halloween I experience a muscle memory wherein I reach for my camera while gathering a costume for The Original Meme Dog, he who made me a mother a few years before Leta did. That may sound like a weird sentiment, but Former Congressm…
The first true sign of trouble in my parents’ marriage aside from several months of late night quarreling happened in the driveway to our home that was tucked into the curve at the end of Cedar Oak Cove in Bartlett, Tennessee, a small subur…
While we are on the topic of Radiohead, I wanted to mention that they released their seventh studio album In Rainbows in October of 2007. It was a surprise masterpiece with it being so late in the game for a band, an album layered with so m…
In 1997 while I was working for Grid Magazine, a publication art directed by my ex-husband, I was leisurely handed what would now be considered the biggest writing assignment a music critic could hope for in their lifetime. The magazine’s e…
Two nights ago I asked Marlo if they wanted to watch a movie after dinner, and without missing a beat they said, “There was that one movie you and Leta were watching a few months ago, the one that made Leta look like she was being beaten up…
Yesterday I spent the morning at the dermatologist to have three suspicious spots on my body examined by a skin doctor and his attending student physician. This is something I have put off for far too long, and I was hoping they’d look at t…
Two months ago I began working out at the gym four times a week — mostly weights and resistance training — to try and sync my body to a regular tempo of stamina and sleep. I suppose this is yet another post about alcoholism considering the
FROM THE ARCHIVES | ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON 11.29.2017 While looking for things to feature in a Black Friday/Cyber Monday round up of deals I stumbled across this t-shirt and immediately thought, “If I ever get a tattoo it’s going to be the…