Today is my mothers 80th birthday. She’s celebrating it in heaven. It IS her birthday, the day she was born. I hear people say, “it would have been” a loved one’s birthday once they have passed and I don’t understand this way of thinking. The day you were born, is the day you were born,…
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An anniversary, an event and a lesson learned
Three years ago tomorrow, December 10, 2017, is the anniversary day of my mini-stroke. I woke up in the morning, sat down to watch television with my daughter and apparently started making no sense, asking if I was in the TV. I wound up back and forth to the hospital the next two days and…
A Thank you to 200+
June 4th, 2018 Dear Kappa Alphas one and all, It’s been a rough few days. I got the call from our current president about the demise of KA over the weekend. He had promised to call me and let me know as soon as he could, and he did. I thought I was prepared for…
Double Secret Probation and other really terrible problems
(This post has been in archives since March, given the events of this past week, I think it’s OK to publish now) I’m sitting in my kitchen right now, enjoying a snow day, and wondering how in the hell the last week actually happened!!! I’ve seen a lot in the last 12 years working at…
The Saint Valentine’s Day Masacre and what boy’s breakups have taught me
I was only working at KA for a few weeks when I found myself witness to the first of many, terrible breakups. Valentine’s day is a tricky day at the frat house. Most of the boys who have steady girlfriends wait until the day before to rush into the kitchen, frantic that there are no…
Penis Bananas and crinkle cut fries
It only took me a few days to realize that working in a frat house was going to have its challenges. A lot of them. Many of those first days, and even weeks, I would show up to the kitchen and exactly nothing would be clean. There would be no pots clean, no knives clean,…
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