Month: February 2023

Uber Ignorance “It’s no different from jumping into a taxicab, Mom,” I said, glancing up from the Uber app I’d been scrolling through. “But anyone can drive up and pick us up? I just don’t know about that,” my mother said, peering aroud my shoulder to look at my phone,…

Family My family has honed the art of passive-aggressive avoidance. Oh, there are issues, to be sure. But we don’t actively talk about it. We just decline dinner invitations and birthday get-togethers and don’t respond to inquisitive texts. And then bitch about our how family is falling apart privately to…

Networking There were a series of head-bobbings, good mornings, and general expressions of greetings as the eight of us filed in for our Friday morning “Local Entrepreneurs” networking group. I, in particular, was not looking as forward to this particular Friday, as our moderator, Ben, would be discussing marketing strategies,…

Tattoo His trans surgery was no surprise to me. We’d begun dating three years after he’d fully arrived, as he liked to say. But, I didn’t see them until we were six months together. It wasn’t even during a particularly intimate moment, not that we’d had many. He just said…

The texts were coming every few seconds, and they were coming to all of us. OK hes crying now, begging her to stay, asking what about us girls The three of us exchange glances and the tension is thick. At any moment, we’re going go.   The oldest daughter is keeping…