Dear Little Human, I hear you will be joining us sometime soon. I'm Rover, aka Buddy-pal, aka Red dog. I can't say that I'm completely thrilled that there is another little human on its way. In truth, I'm feeling a little dismayed. The first one, well...it was tiny and used to just lay around. That…
Month: March 2018
About that sex talk…
My husband and I watched the Oscars together a few weeks ago. I lounged on the couch and he thumbed through his FB feed. The award show was more background noise than anything. Then I heard the name Kobe Bryant. My husband looked up from his phone, confused. I sat up and turned to the…
Dear Baby Brother
Dear Baby Brother, My name is Evelyn. I'm a sister. Do you know what a sister is? I'm not totally sure either, but Mama and Dada keep telling me that's what I am now. Or that's what I'm gonna be soon. So I don't know what that means, but I hope being a sister is…
Movies from my childhood – just for fun!
I woke up thinking about the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off this morning, though I have no idea why. It was the scene where the principle says "9 times" and Ferris' mom asks "9 times?" and the principle repeats "9 times." It's the way he says NIIIIIIIEEEEEENNNNEEE that makes me chuckle. Then Ferris hacks the…
The value of life
Hundreds of billions of stars in hundreds of billions of galaxies... In all of that, here we are. Here, we became us. From the most unlikely odds, our planet became the earth we know. From the most unlikely odds, humans were born from that planet. It occurs to me on occasion just how special we…
If you follow this blog…
After several months of writing here more regularly, it's high time that I introduce this blog. I've made you a list--bloggers love lists--to give you some insight into the little world I'm creating for us here on this blog. Here are 10 things for you to know about Charly Slipp and the ephemeral life. Ephemeral…
The clichés of a**holes
Note: I began writing this shortly after the Parkland shooting. I've read through it many times now and I know there is so much more I could say. For the sake of brevity, though, I will not go further than I have here. Also, full disclosure, my initial draft was pretty snarky. I've done my…
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