Red's Wrap
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Dressed Down
I bought a dress online, a long black summer dress that I thought would make me look earthy and graceful. Dresses are foreign to me but I keep trying, like all the years I kept going back to Spanish classes thinking this next time… Continue Reading “Dressed Down”
Red’s Wrap Gets a Fashion Consult
I understand you’re in need of some fashion advice. Possibly. I seem to be in a bit of a rut, fashion-wise, you know, with the pandemic and all. Were you fashionable before the pandemic? And then the pandemic got you wearing sweats all the… Continue Reading “Red’s Wrap Gets a Fashion Consult”
A Talking To
Get rid of those scarves. You’re never going to wear them. Huh? Who are you? I’m your Fashionista! Your fashion sense. What are you talking about? I don’t have any fashion sense. My point exactly. You need me to tell you to ditch those… Continue Reading “A Talking To”
Dressed Down
I bought a dress online, a long black summer dress that I thought would make me look earthy and graceful. Dresses are foreign to me but I keep trying, like all the years I kept going back to Spanish classes thinking this next time… Continue Reading “Dressed Down”
Beargrease #2
A year ago, I wouldn’t have worn the skirt or the boots, especially the boots. They’d have been too extreme for me, too unusual and different. Flamboyant. Other people would wear boots like that. I wouldn’t. And the skirt over my jeans. Seriously. A… Continue Reading “Beargrease #2”
Snug
My new jean shorts are skin tight. Well, not exactly, but close. I wanted a pair of shorts that I could wear all the time, like I used to wear cut-offs. I miss cut-offs, real cut-offs. I miss the lack of pretension, the accident… Continue Reading “Snug”
Minnie and BowWow Discuss Pants
BowWow: Did you know the lady has twelve fucking pairs of black pants? Minnie: How do you know that? You can’t count. BowWow: I was watching her this morning. One hanger after the other, all over the fucking bed. If it wasn’t twelve, it… Continue Reading “Minnie and BowWow Discuss Pants”
Pants
I wore three pairs of pants today. Not all at once, although I had a friend who did that. He wore double pants to work every day for weeks and put an extra record album in his briefcase. It was his drip, drip, drip… Continue Reading “Pants”
Unadorned
I am wearing what may be the homeliest sweater in the world. It has a collar and a zipper and a Nordic cross-stitch pattern. It’s also made out of that velour type fabric, neither fish nor fowl, a pretend real sweater. I bought it… Continue Reading “Unadorned”
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Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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