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          First, let me just say that I have absolutely no idea how we are already halfway through 2021. I feel like January was just last week. However, I am proud to announce that it is June, and that means that it is Pride Month! Gay Pride, or LGBTQIA+ Pride is defined as the promotion of the self-affirmation, dignity, equality, and increasing visibility of the LGBTQIA+ community as a social…

Hello again, my lovely ghouls and garden gremlins— You may have noticed the eerie quiet echoing from The Crippled Cryptid lately. I promise it wasn’t a ghost (well… not entirely). Life simply crept in with all its weight and whispers, and I found myself pulled into the mist for a while. Winter, in all its bone-deep chill and heavy skies, tends to wrap around me like fog—thick and lingering. My…

Hello again, my lovely ghouls and garden gremlins— You may have noticed the eerie quiet echoing from The Crippled Cryptid lately. I promise it wasn’t a ghost (well… not entirely). Life simply crept in with all its weight and whispers, and I found myself pulled into the mist for a while. Winter, in all its bone-deep chill and heavy skies, tends to wrap around me like fog—thick and lingering. My…

Reading, Writing, & Other Nightmare Madness.

            So, it’s been almost two weeks since my last post, and while I’d like to give you some kind of half-assed excuse as for why, I don’t have one. On October 11th, I said goodbye to Roswell, the Alien, and hello to Nightmare my spoopy Renegade. Doing so, was a big step forward for me. Partly because I loved that Juke more than I thought somebody could love a car… and partly because I…

The End of an Era. (Bittersweet Goodbyes.)

          I never saw myself as the sentimental type. Not when it came to something like this.             Okay, that’s a lie. I’m a lot more sentimental than most people think, and even though it’s been a long time coming, I’m both sad and excited to announce the end of an era, and the beginning of a new age. My car, my Juke, my baby is retiring. We had a good run, don’t get me wrong, she was…

World’s Largest Mozzarella Sticks, Mars Cheese Castle, & Family Adventures.

        Hello again! I wanted to write this yesterday, while everything was fresh in my mind but sadly, life had other plans. As I said in my last post, yesterday, we’d planned a miniature road trip up to Wisconsin in search of what TikTok called the World’s Largest Mozzarella sticks.         Well, after an hour and 15-minutes in the car, we found them!         Alphonso’s The Original can be…