by JMBell | Oct 16, 2023 | Typed Rants
My friend Ken died. I mean, shit happens, right? No use getting all emotional, you know what I mean? Sure, he was a fucking legend, one of the kindest souls to ever walk this rarified orb, but crying isn’t going to help. I can’t stop crying this morning. Ken and I...
by JMBell | Aug 12, 2023 | Typed Rants
I’ve become stuck and forgot my words. Poetry. I skipped writing poetry in high school. I was too busy pretending to be novelist and a playwright. When I got to college at 17 years old, I had a creative writing professor take exception at my low opinion of...
by JMBell | Aug 9, 2023 | Typed Rants
Parenting when you’re bad at it. Hit a trigger this morning. Things got shitty when I turned 30. Life became a work slog just to survive. We needed me to work and work and work to pay rent and bills and buy food … normal stuff, sure, but 30 started my run...
by JMBell | Mar 8, 2023 | Typed Rants
I need work. Lots and lots of work, and very quickly. I seem to have run out of stuff to sell. I used to have a nice collection of things that I not only took joy in owning, but that I was planning to pass along to my kiddos at what will most certainly be my untimely...
by JMBell | Jan 18, 2023 | Typed Rants
And I’m not so self assured … “… now I find I’ve changed my mind, and opened up the doors.” I have a hard time asking for help. I often dance around the point, making desperate asks seem unimportant because I just can’t commit to the honest...
by JMBell | Dec 17, 2022 | Typed Rants
Well, here we are again. The “Holidays.” I really don’t know when I started hating the holidays. I honestly don’t. It wasn’t, as some assume, when my folks divorced. This season became annoying, of that there’s no doubt, but I didn’t hate it. When the kids were...