“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 make a website where I could un-closet all of my writings, which were hidden out of fear of…well, critique. But then Gervais said that, and I was like, eh, fuck it.

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 turkey 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.

If you hate it, make something better.