Since I’m sitting here listening to the radio all day long (Oldies 107.5 WDBQ) and things are constantly blowing through my brain, I figured I would start taking notes. “Oh Carol.” Find the lyrics to this song and see if you don’t stab yourself in the eyeball. I thought “All By Myself” was pathetic — [...]

It was the end of the summer of 1995 and all was far from well. Things were dying with my first serious boyfriend. Actually, that’s probably the nicest way to put it; it’s more accurate to talk about him stringing me along for a summer while screwing half of another city, later coming around to [...]