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2024: The Year in Review – Part Two

We continue on the high summer note on which we left off from the first half of the year, which found us deep in coquette country and on the verge of a banner summer Olympics. Like most years, the months slowly but sometimes wildly shifted. Fasten your seatbelts, you know the rest…

July 2024: Back when we still held the wonder of hope.

The patriotic Speedo upon reflection.

Keep this guide handy so you don’t fuck up.

Shirtless summer shenanigans. (And one to blow on.)

Pink and wet.

My give-a-fucks went on vacation.

Summer night welcome.

A coquette visit with two dear friends.

Never the boy of summer.

Jaxon Layne turns two.

Our 24th anniversary.

A chosen coquette family.

The Paris Summer Olympics began with a bulge-tastic bang.

Making it purr and keeping it kinky.

A Silver Mountain summer scent.

The final coquette summer playlist.

The room where my father died.

August 2024: Dad’s anniversary.

A place of peace and rest.

Coquette loveliness.

Shirtless poses.

A fragrance fit for a father.

Summer Olympics 2024: a tale of two penises.

Zac Efron pumping sans shirt.

Our BroSox Adventure took place in August, a bit later, but every bit as fun and enjoyable as all of our excursions

Retiring Tom Daley’s Speedo.

Madonna seriously.

A coquette cradle song for therapy.

What are we supposed to do with coquette feathers?

A birthday on the cusp.

Feeling all of 49.

Birthdaying in Boston.

September 2024: Summer lingered happily by the pool.

The battle of pink and green was on

A hanging rope of pearls.

A father’s birthday in absentia.

Last gasp of a flailing coquette, striking a pose and losing hold of all glamour.

Andy saves summer with one plate of fried green tomatoes.

A summer day in Vermont with Suzie, on which we find some of the best ice cream we’ve ever had.

Nakedly harvesting super moon energy.

Closing out a perfectly lovely coquette summer.

Fall arrives with this fade-to-black theme.

Desperation.

Getting tired of this earth.

Black-brimmed avenger.

A witchy trio.

Fragile masculinity.

Remembering my first kiss with a man.

Words of an American psycho.

Smoking a fall clove.

At the turn to darkness.

A sex scene from the verge of twinkdom.

A Boston weekend in the fall with Kira.

Childhood church trauma.

Andy has the best balls.

October 2024: Thirty years ago I kept an unfortunate journal.

Getting busy.

Monster dick evil.

Ferocious, weak, pretentious freak.

A silver lining of social anxiety.

A treacherous tale of three.

The rough and tough meditation.

A new black parade.

Fall bacchanal, caftan style.

The Fade-to-Black fall playlist.

A sorcerer by a sorceress

Dangerously feminine.

Andy’s birthday.

Kamala, not so obviously, even if it’s obvious, and too late, now. 

Autumn in Ogunquit, as magical as ever. 

Super graphic ultra modern girl like me

Five years of sober living.

A bedtime story that’s lasted for thirty years.

Marble and mud.

A charming Saturday in New York with my person.

A family detour.

Let’s have another mid-life crisis because why not?

When a witch turns their back

Who’s afraid of little old me?

A witch’s playlist.

Sound the siren.

November 2024: In which a villain re-emerges for survival.

Ben Cohen’s take-it-all-off calendar.

A November surprise with a project from 2004.

Swimming in November.

Mourning has broken.

A husband’s helpful shadow.

Ten years ago on this very blog.

I kept my promise, and I’m keeping my distance

Sexual activity my ass.

You must meet Irate Irene.

A magical flower from my magical man.

A cardinal visits.

Shades of nudity set to music.

Just what we need – another social media app.

Still Wicked after all these years.

No more news and no one’s unhappy about it

When tea-bagging goes bad.

Friendsgiving 2024 and a dinner with Kira.

Ulta ultra unhelpful.

December 2024: A holiday fragrance that is, like its wearer, a lot.

Everything is fucking fine.

Holiday card 2024: Shitter’s full!

The full ‘shades of gray’ project from twenty years ago is posted online for the first time.

Absence makes the heart grow.

Andy is my greatest comfort.

A cozy Christmas scene.

Waltzing through Christmas.

Racial profiling at the Newbury Hotel?

We can’t all be one of the witches.

Winter solstice.

Holiday Stroll 2024.

Boston Children’s Holiday Hour (entirely misnomered). 

Christmas coda with Chris.

A Christmas message for the lonely

The twins had their very first adult dinner party, thrown by me and Andy as it should be

A holiday recap.

See you in 2025, whether we like it or not…

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