Tishann Tonya DoolinI watched The Closer, so you don’t have to.There’s something bothering me about the discourse surrounding Dave Chappelle’s The Closer. It’s the implication that his friendship with…6 min read·Oct 18, 2021----
Tishann Tonya DoolinHigh FlyerMany commercial pilots come from a military background. I was told that you can tell where they came from — Air Force, civilian training…6 min read·Sep 9, 2021----
Tishann Tonya DoolinThe Ballad of iPad JoeI used to do most of my shopping at night. This wasn’t by design. Night just happened to be when I was awake. As you can imagine, options…5 min read·Jun 22, 2021----
Tishann Tonya DoolinThe absurd is normal. Everything else is weird.My grandmother died recently. I say “recently”, but this is “recently” according to an ADHD timescale, or a COVID timescale. “Recently”, is…7 min read·May 6, 2021----
Tishann Tonya DoolinWork GrandpaI worked in the ER from the age of 20, to 23. Somewhere in there — late in the second year, I think — an Army Reserve RN from another…7 min read·Mar 7, 2021----
Tishann Tonya DoolinAlright, so here’s the deal. I worked in an emergency room a long time ago.It doesn’t feel like that long; honestly, a lot of what’s happened since then registers as little more than a blur.6 min read·Jul 13, 2020----
Tishann Tonya DoolinA visit to, and thoughts on, the CHAZ(Look, I know it’s called CHOP now but that sounds awful. let me be)4 min read·Jun 16, 2020----
Tishann Tonya DoolinIdeology is a Fuck: Disco ElysiumDisco Elysium is a writer’s game. You can tell from the first because there’s a lot of big words, but they aren’t made-up science fiction…4 min read·Nov 12, 2019--1--1
Tishann Tonya DoolinOn not being the “target audience”When I first enlisted in the Army, the going was rough, as one expects. The idea is to get the enlistee accustomed to functioning under…6 min read·Dec 21, 2018----
Tishann Tonya DoolinThomasWhen I was 17, I dropped out of high school. I got lucky and picked up a paying internship at a graphic design firm a few months later.4 min read·Dec 6, 2018----