Allie Griffith

Allie Griffith
Location
Memphis, Tennessee,
Bio
Writer, game developer, artist. Also raconteuse, dilettante, and passionate advocate. I've been called an angel of wisdom and I've been called a judgmental idiot. Sooner or later I'm bound to say something that you disagree with; feel free to tell me your side of the story. I listen to other people's opinions and have occasionally been known to concede that they might have a point and alter mine. I use too many semicolons and I have terrible taste in music. I'm the sort of person who thinks it's more telling to mention that than that I'm married and had a foster daughter but she's grown now. By objective standards, my life is probably a disaster - no health insurance and a chronic illness - but my happiness quotient is the highest of anyone I know. Sometimes I tell sad stories but please don't let them make you sad.

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APRIL 23, 2009 12:54AM

"AWOL Sailor found Hanged"

This started as a comment on a post by laurenjwalter but took on a life of its own. Rather than go off-topic on her comment thread, I decided to make it into its own post.

Fingerlakeswanderer made the comment that all of us here at OS are writers, and that as a…

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MARCH 28, 2009 12:47PM

Size DDD Boobs and Regional Department Stores

Taking a break from my usual bitching about my diet to say:  YAY!  My boobs are smaller!

Not what most women probably think of as a reason to rejoice, but then, most women don't have E cup boobs. See, the thing about E cups (or DDD depending on the brand) is… Read full post »

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MARCH 10, 2009 2:21AM

Millet: not just for the birds!

I guess the economy must be pretty bad after all - now I'm eating bird seed.

Grocery prices recently have gotten so out of hand that there's a new camaraderie in the aisles. "Is that for your cat or for you?" a lady I've never met before today cackles, as I… Read full post »

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MARCH 9, 2009 4:57AM

Treasure box, or: My dad kicked me in the head...

The funny thing, the sad thing, is that I know people who had it far worse than I had it. I didn't live in fear. 364 days of the year (365 on leap years) I was a pretty ordinary kid in a family which, while it was stressful in a lot… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009 1:53PM

My Coke Addiction

I've been clean now for 49 days.

The sound is the worst of it. "Open the damn thing in the kitchen!"  I yell at my husband, who rolls his eyes and takes a deep pull.

Yeah, he's terrified of me. He could stand to get off the stuff too. Some mornings… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009 1:42PM

Ghost story - The Laughing Man

(Inspired by Jodi's post on ghost photography.)

The second place my husband and I lived in together - the place where we were married - was a crappy little townhouse in an apartment complex called Ridgeway Trace. Ridgeway Trace had been a swanky place to live when it was built in… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009 9:09AM

Food that works for me

This is the latest installment of my continuing quest to improve my health by eating better despite a tight budget. I haven't been on a scale this week but my husband says I feel smaller and I can now pull off the pants which used to be too tight without unbuttoning… Read full post »

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JANUARY 21, 2009 7:31PM

Fighting back: Part 1, family history

This is a post about diets.

 I have mixed feelings about diets. My mother has been on a diet since she was sixteen. Periodically she will announce, "I've lost five pounds!"  Or twelve pounds. Or forty pounds. But forty pounds is not all that visible a change when you are almost… Read full post »

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