Thursday, April 5, 2018

This Slightly Less of a Bitch is Back

I found out today that a friend’s father had died suddenly.  She and her father had just celebrated a big birthday with a trip to the super bowl. Her father was her best friend like most fathers are to their daughters. Sadly, this friend didn’t reach out to tell me the news – I heard it second hand.  My friend only told about five close friends and I wasn’t one of them.  The friend who told me is a mutual friend of ours. The three of us had completed two weeks of new hire training together in Vegas over eight years ago (side note:  two weeks in Vegas is about ten days too long).  We bonded during training instantly as I a shared a room ... Read More

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Introduction to Alice

Appropriately, the first post on this site is your introduction to Alice Afterall. Alice came into existence one Saint Patrick’s Day evening in Wilmington, North Carolina. While she’s American she believes she’s British (she blames this on her British heritage and like Madonna before her, adopted the accent to fit). It could also be that she finds British colloquialisms much finer than Americans though I beg you not to hold that against her. Further, she fancies Canterbury, England quite a bit and would love to someday spend a summer writing there. A writer by trait, Alice can best be summed up with a single word: duplicitous. Why you may ask? The answer is simple. While she’s materially generous, she’s incredibly selfish when it comes to her ... Read More