Jessica Cunningham
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Eclectic, nerdy, geeky, passionate writer who loves my kitties, cooking/baking, gardening, exploring my memories, and writing from my heart.
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Dating Duds: Series
I've had the belly-busting hilarious privilege of meeting some men on dating apps that I call "Dating Duds." I'll write my dating backstory in another article, but this series just screams at me from the screenshots of beyond strange individuals that I've encountered with online dating.
By Jessica Cunningham3 years ago in Humans
"The Little Red Suitcase"
Every summer, just before school would get out, they would come. In swarms of red and black specks, looking like microscopic tubes of lipstick wore down to the very last remnants of color, the love bugs would smudge everything and everyone. Our dog Daisy, would nip at the air trying to catch them on a breeze. The most harmless of creatures and yet we still hated them, mainly because they were a nuisance. They’d get stuck on the windows, their carcasses littering the yard leaving piles of them as the sun grew hotter day after sweltering day. Sometimes it was so hard to see that Daddy would have to rub corn oil on the bumper and windshield just so he could see to drive us to church on Wednesday and Sunday nights. Even love bugs wouldn’t keep the Carters out of church.
By Jessica Cunningham4 years ago in Fiction
"The Furry Posse's Matriarch"
As a writer/editor and English tutor, I must spend many hours a day at my computer. On the occasions that I leave my home office and take my laptop to the living room, I am followed by my posse. My posse is what I call the menagerie of kitties I have rescued from absolute certain death. Each one has a horrifying story of their early beginnings, but all have turned out to be quirky, unique personalities that just seem to make my household dynamic that much more enjoyable.
By Jessica Cunningham4 years ago in Petlife
The Grief-Wounded Don't Want Help
I’ve been reflecting on a few patterns of behavior I have seen in the people around me who are grieving with me. We all grieve in our own way, which can seem baffling from the outside but are natural to the griever’s recovery process. The patterns of grief really don’t follow a specific predictability (i.e. the 5 stages of grief).
By Jessica Cunningham4 years ago in Humans
