Hello lovelies. I miss this place. If you are not friended to me on Facebook and do not yet know of my burlesque persona, please go friend me. I am Red Zorah. Burlesque has changed my life. Really. I am in love with being 40, and there is so much going on.

Bulleted For Her Pleasure:

1) I live with my girlfriend, one Jill Malone. She is a ( Read more... )

My year was brutal, to be honest. Absolutely soul-scrapingly rough. But in the end here are six major breakthroughs that never would have happened if I did not live right here, right now and right as I can:

1. My Little Yellow House in the Hoody of the Weird has not yet outstripped my skills as a homeowner (pause here to knock on wood. Did ( Read more... )

I work in a residential 180 day inpatient treatment facility for addicted mamas and their children. We prioritize pregnant mamas so we get to have lots of brand new humans about. We have a balancing act with numbers - but generally capacity appears to be around 27 mamas and 25 or so children of varying ages. It all goes down in a HUGE Victorian ( Read more... )

Today I taught a client about the beauty of tenacity ( Read more... )

When I have to call CPS, SPD and someone's P.O.

I still love my job.

I have been wanting a tattoo on the back of my neck. I am toying with getting the word redemption back there ( Read more... )

Several of the clients in the house know this man:

Bassett may face homicide charge in baby's deathAnd my clients tell me he is a 'total sweetheart', and that they want to write him a letter to tell him that they know he would never do such a thing. They tell me the baby must have slipped out of his hands and hit her head and stopped breathing - ( Read more... )

Glossary of Terms at The House:

Strifespreading : (v.) Gossiping, or more specifically, talking about someone else - either positively or negatively - outside of their presence.
I was strifespreading the other day, about her smoking at the bus stop, but I didn't mean for her to get caught!

Carefront (n.) : to give another member of The House ( Read more... )

Some of my clients who were involved in sex work recently lost two friends. One was decapitated and the other was treated to a hot shot.

I can't find anything in the local paper.

So these past few days saw me navigating the biggest crisis I have ever witnessed in my life. A client. Just a situation beyond words. Even if I could tell you ( Read more... )

Worky update ( Read more... )