Dear Reader, The idea of becoming a mother terrifies me. There’s a huge amount of responsibility that comes with children, but also the unconditional love of a person you made. It’s something that in years to come, I hope to experience – but not today, this year or next. I’m not ready for that. I Read More
Author: Sidney
It can never be said that Sidney Bristol has had a ‘normal’ life. She is a recovering roller derby queen, former missionary, and tattoo addict. She grew up in a motor-home on the US highways (with an occasional jaunt into Canada and Mexico), traveling the rodeo circuit with her parents. Sidney has lived abroad in both Russia and Thailand, working with children and teenagers. She now lives in Texas where she splits her time between a job she loves, writing, reading and belly dancing.
Sitting on $500
Dear Reader, Furniture is expensive! In the process of looking for houses I’ve earmarked things that are important to me. Namely I judge a house on three things: the size of the closet counter space in the master bathroom space alotted for a dining table Back when I moved out on my own I had Read More
Teaser Tuesday: Rosemary and Rue
Teaser Tuesdays are a book meme hosted by Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! Read More
Painting my Face.
Saturday my friend and I went to see one of the shows put on by the local summer theater venues. It was a traveling Broadway show. People here don’t do enough dressing up for fun events like this if you ask my humble opinion. Thankfully my friend is with me on wanting to dress up Read More
Skin care. All of it.
Dear Reader, Sex wasn’t the only thing my mother didn’t teach me about. Oh, she taught me how to shoot a gun, ride a horse and encouraged me to fight a bull, but how to be a girl? I learned that from gay men, and thank God for them! If I’d had lesbian tendencies it Read More
Reality and Love
Dear Reader, I’ve never watched the Bachelor or the Bachelorette. The only reality dating show I’ve ever been interested in was the Millionaire Match-Maker. I decided that I was going to give this season of the Bachelorette a go. Why not? It’s TV. I can stream it at work, and I’ll understand what the big Read More
House Hunting is Exhausting
Dear Reader, I already want to be done with the house shopping. It’s exhausting. But more than that, I very much want to be out of my apartment soon. When I moved into the complex I live in there hadn’t been any arrests on the premesis, there was security, and a gate. Today none of Read More
Tattoo Tales: Friends don’t let friends pick bad shops.
I hear some version of this story a lot: It was Friday night and we were hanging out and I looked at my friend and said, ‘I want a tattoo.’ So we want to the shop down the street and I got the artist to do this. It looks like shit./It hurt like hell./They screwed Read More
Happy Daddy’s Day
To all the daddy’s out there, today is for you. I’m going to be driving home to go spend the day with my dad and eat BBQ and be without internet. Wish me luck!
Shopping in My Closet
Dear Reader, One thing I need to keep in mind while house shopping is that I need a large closet. I let myself forget that the first time around with the shopping, but after the little incident below I know I can’t lose track of how important this is for me. I have a fuck Read More
