We’re only 4 months in! Don’t give up yet! Maybe later! But not yet! 2022 was a doozy. A real thought-it-was-a-fart-but-it-turned-out-to-actually-be a-shit kind of year. Just an all-around doozy of a dookie. Local news was outrageous. World news? Disgraceful! Celebrity news? Don’t get me started! The state of social media? Fetch me a barf bag! Dealing with my neighbors? Call me a medic! Dealing with my family? Call an EXORCIST! That day I was on hold with my bank’s customer service for over an hour, only to be told that I’d been transferred to the wrong department? I may have…
Author: Kelly Sheehan-Heath
Kelly Sheehan-Heath
Kelly is a freelancer writer from Montreal, Quebec who's Nan used to say, "Ah! Kelly's on her soapbox again!" You can check out more of her work at https://medium.com/@heathsheehankelly, and let her know which is your favorite season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
I knew I shouldn’t have come tonight. I had a bad feeling about it from the jump, but I still let myself get bullied into joining you. I told you your relatives would act weird about you dipping your toe in the folkloric character dating pool. I told you I wouldn’t gel with them as your ex did. She was a color consultant! Of course, everybody loved her! What am I?? Just an anthropomorphized hobby horse from South Wales, that’s what. “What do you do for a living, dear?” Oh, I’m part of a charming Yuletide tradition where I, a…