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Everything You Need to Get In That Halloween-y State Of Mind

This year, the Halloween plan is four all four of us to do…something. Involving trick-or-treating. (I know; I’ve given it a lot of thought.) Our son will be Wolverine, and our daughter will be Lydia Deetz, and I will maybe be a gumball machine (more on that later) but will probably be a cat.

Before we get to the roundup of all the things you need to get yourself into the spirit of the season, let’s do a little retrospective of Halloweens from Years Past.

There was the time I did…whatever this ...

Sick Day Soup: New and Improved

Me, sick.

One of the first recipes I posted way back in the day was for something I called “Sick Day Soup” – basically just a half-assed semi-homemade chicken noodle soup that I made for Kendrick whenever he was feeling bad. In keeping with most (all?) of the recipes I posted back then, it was full of shortcuts (using store-bought broth, pre-shredded chicken, whatever), and while I continue to think those shortcuts make sense for everyday cooking, sometimes – like when a person you care about i...

Links & Love & Stuff

I’ve always been intimidated by the idea of contouring, but this singlehandedly transformed my daily makeup routine. I have cheekbones now! (Use code JORDAN15 at checkout for a discount.)

Speaking of contouring: this Charlotte Tilbury product is great.

This, for the very spoiled kitty cats in your life.

As a former tiny-apartment-dweller, I love these ideas. (These Are the Best Living Room Layout Ideas for 2021, via Apartment Therapy.)

So marshmallow slides are apparently a thing.

Love th...

Introducing: The Ramshackle Glam Audioblog

Today is the official release date of The Big Activity Book for Divorced People (order here!), woo! To celebrate, I tried A New Thing (divorce! evolution!). Caveat: I have zero technical skills and essentially just tried to teach myself how to use GarageBand while sitting under a sheet, so suggestions and feedback are welcome. I have a few more of these planned, so I’d also love to hear whether you…you know…like this.

Listen away below!

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Ramshackle Glam Audioblog: The (Real) Story Behind “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”

This is the most interesting thing about me, according to many, many (most?) people: The fact that I was fired from It‘s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

It’s a tricky thing, writing about an incident that so clearly paints me as the sad sack, the bitter ex-actress who coulda been a star! …and then wasn’t, and was instead relegated to a footnote in the storied history of a television show. I’m that guy who was almost on Friends instead of Matt LeBlanc. I’m the fifth Beatle.

This is my story.

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Ramshackle Glam Audioblog: The Impostor

A decade after my career began, I was fired. And I realized that it had finally happened. I’d been revealed as what I’d been all along: A fraud, whose slights of hand nobody seemed to recognize as trickery save for me.

All episodes here.

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Beginning Of An Era

My children have moved several times over the course of their lives. Probably too many. I have worried about this – about the effect all these moves might have on their sense of security; their understanding of “home.” Not long ago, I confessed this to a friend – one who has moved her own children several times, including transcontinentally – and what she said to me was this: “There are parents who stay still. You don’t. That’s simply the mother they have, and it’s neither a good thing nor a ba...

Ramshackle Glam Audioblog: The Love Bomb

I’d never heard the term “love-bombing” before. And then it happened to me.

I’ll be feeding out more episodes in the coming weeks; you can check them out here (and soon on Apple Podcasts, presumably – it’s a learning process).

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Cutback Coach: An App For Mindful Drinking

 

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Awhile back I wrote about Pandemic Habits, and how (surprise!) I developed a few less-than-great ones of my own. Something about the whole what is life/weekends don’t exist anymore/crushing depression that must be escaped deal.

Anyway, one thing I noticed was that I was drinking more than made sense for the aforementioned reasons. My therapist told me about something called “mindful drinking,” which led m...

Ramshackle Glam Audioblog: On Divorce

Today is the official release date of The Big Activity Book for Divorced People (order here!), woo! To celebrate, I tried A New Thing (divorce! evolution!). Caveat: I have zero technical skills and essentially just tried to teach myself how to use GarageBand while sitting under a sheet, so suggestions and feedback are welcome. I have a few more of these planned, so I’d also love to hear whether you…you know…like this.

Listen away below!

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