C'est la Vie by Jennifer Babcock for January 10, 2020

As Rose Marie once said, ‘it is better to have loved and lost. Much better.’

A kotatsu in LA?

Funny how?

Tempt her out with a bottle of chardonnay. If that doesn’t work, we may have to push a plate of nachos under the bed to keep her alive.

I’ve kept a bunch of mine and old journals for when I get too full of myself. You know the dreams where you’re up on stage in front a bunch of people naked? These are more embarrassing than that.

Everybody plays the fool sometime

There’s no exception to the rule

Listen, baby

It may be factual, may be cruel

I ain’t lying

Everybody plays the fool-The Main Ingredient.

I think she ate her lips.

Is she reading letters she received? Or letters that she wrote and never sent? Or worst of all, letters returned by her former paramours?

Well, that letter really took the colour out of her lips…

Shocked the make-up plum off her face.

—Which is why you probably shouldn’t save Old Love Letters, Donna. Are the dust bunnies okay with your hanging out in their home?