My father loved them! It worked out fine. Thank you for asking!

Thank you so much for reading and your kind response.

It was hard to write but I’m glad you got something from it. Thank you for reading!

I love it. 

Stephen is on paternity leave. He’ll be back in a few months!

Thanks!

Thank you so much

Thank you so much for your kind words and I’m so sorry for your loss.

There were only three of us kids. My eldest sister and I played the piano without incident. My baby sister tho, she went down swinging every time. lol

D.C. is a lot of fun, or at least it was a lot of fun when I was there during the Obama years. It has changed a lot, it’s not quite Chocolate City anymore (this shift happened while I was there) and the gentrification makes living there UBER expensive, but I still love D.C. It’s a pretty fascinating place. Also the…

Aw, thank you! That means so much to hear.

Thank you!

LOL yes, he worked there for more than 30 years!

LOL. Both those guesses are accurate. Here’s your cookie:

Thanks! I’m actually thinking of writing something about my life and my family. Still working out the particulars tho!

Hey hey hey, fellow former St. Louisan! I’m also from Florissant and went to Hazelwood Central High School. And I’ve told my family, if they all didn’t live there, I probably would never go back to North County. The social structure and anti-intellectualism thing drives me bananas! (In an earlier draft of this piece I…

I am also a Libra. Nice shit is awesome.

I mean, I won’t eat it, but somebody does!

I thought they were painted like tigers because of Cardi’s line “this pussy’s wild, throw it in a cage,” since tigers are essentially wild cats, aka “wild pussies.” But I’ll admit, that might be just me thinking too hard!

Me and fake eyelashes always start off good, then the ends won’t lay down and stick and it looks like the eyelash is trying to escape from my face!