Author Archives: casey coombs

mary’s story.

“If you’ve been marked by what might have been, you don’t forget. You know the day, the years… you know exactly what anniversary you’d be celebrating…you’ll never forget the…last time cancer was a word about someone else’s life, or the day that changed absolutely everything. It makes the calendar feel like a minefield, like you’reContinue reading “mary’s story.”

just when you thought it was the sex and socks that would get you, it turns out to be the swedes.

Dear Newlyweds, I’d hate to speak for all married people, but given we’ve been doing this for almost a decade and neither of us have smothered each other with pillows in our sleep or ended up on an episode of Dr. Phil or Maury Povich, I dare say I’m somewhat qualified to hand down theContinue reading “just when you thought it was the sex and socks that would get you, it turns out to be the swedes.”

the one about the illusion of perfection and why it really doesn’t do anybody any good.

I spent countless hall pass breaks in the bathroom of my jr. high and high school with my armpits under the hand dryers or neatly folding toilet paper into origami type shapes to tuck into my bra in a desperate attempt to keep up appearances that I didn’t sweat. But the truth was (and stillContinue reading “the one about the illusion of perfection and why it really doesn’t do anybody any good.”

a laundry fresh scented kenmore elite review.

Maybe you’ve seen the commercial for the new Kenmore top loading washer where a woman with neatly coiffed hair and a perfectly fit little black dress comes out and does some fancy move with some piece of luxurious fabric in a spotless shiny room attempting to sell you on the new line of Kenmore EliteContinue reading “a laundry fresh scented kenmore elite review.”