“So, what’s the deal?”

It’s better to create something that others criticize than to create nothing and criticize others.

Ricky Gervais said that once, and it hit me hard enough to create a website where I could host my closeted collection of poetry and short stories. I chose the name White Women Holding in Farts because the imagery it evokes is only second to its acronymic and onomatopoeic excellence - wwhif.

Astonishingly, not a single person was squatting on the domain name.

I should take a second to point out that many of the poems about my husband were written in the middle of the pandemic, when we were stuck at home and circling each other like buzzards. Things are less intense now - these days, we throw “love darts” at each other, like hermaphroditic land snails.

I hope you find something here to which you can relate.