I like to eat while it’s still light out — also makes cooking easier. So that means by 3 PM for Thanksgiving, 2 PM for Christmas.

We experience winter driving conditions where I live for over seven months each year. My advice: 1) Own a car with manual transmission and all-wheel-drive. (I’ve got two Subarus, one 18 years old, one 10. There’s a reason my local dealer is the biggest grosser in North America.) 2) Live somewhere that allows studded…

I grew up in Australia. Huntsman spiders like this normally live in the bush, under gum tree bark, but adapt very well to living behind furniture and pictures inside houses. They tend to appear when you are moving said furniture, or on the ceiling just as you are falling asleep.

This doesn’t even make sense on a demographic level. There was a surplus of single women after Vietnam, because, you know, lots of the men their age were DEAD. What the pastor really means is that no human female over about age 16 was willing to date this doofus.

When our beloved dog disappeared a week or so after we got back from living overseas for six months (the dog was in a kennel the whole time), they should not have allowed us to spend the next month looking for it, putting up posters all over the neighborhood, and calling its name, over and over. They should have told…

Investigate Hilary!!!!!

I use an Aeropress or Bonavita drip coffee maker most of the time, but as a non-Luddite who’s been an environmental professional for the past 40 years, I have to correct your “facts” regarding Keurigs. I bought a small one on craigslist for $20 five years ago. It has no reservoir and only consumes power when it’s in…

According to Promethease,, I am a supertaster. (Also a bitter taster.) I love IPAs, Brussels Sprouts, and Dutch licorice.

Fruit salad in a Western hat.

It’s pretty chilling to hear that a Catholic institution wants to control ALL its employees’ personal choices like this. I don’t think one has to be RC to work for Notre Dame, and even if so, since when does this private educational institution get to pass judgment on actual human beings? Even bishops and priests…

But awareness of your emotions is a great first step. You will experience emotions — notice that they arise, then pass away. They do not define you.

Don’t believe everything you think. I repeat: don’t believe everything you think. Remind yourself of this often.

These are not cups of coffee; they are desserts.

“ . . .but at the length truth will out.”

I am here to tell you that one of the worst things that can happen to your vehicle is for a rodent to die somewhere in the heater/ventilation system. If this happens, unless you are good at taking the whole thing apart and finding the carcass, your choice will be between driving around with the windows down and the…

As usual, my very large state is not mentioned. I just want everyone to know that our pantry and kitchen is absolutely infested with red-backed voles this year. They love Clif bars, and are very good at licking all the PB off the old-school mouse traps without triggering them. They are driving my dogs crazy, too. The…

IF YOU ARE UNSURE where you are going, e.g. if the road you are on doesn’t seem to be going where you want it to go, or your GPS isn’t working, or you are trying to call someone but they haven’t answered yet, PULL THE FUCK OVER and let the rest of us pass, mmmKay? Driving 20 mph below the speed limit while constantly…

B-b-b-but Sarah Huckabee Sanders just told us we’re not allowed to question a four-star general/Marine!! (Who’s also a white male.)

I agree about this trend (I’m 62). I think when we’re younger, we are still trying to figure out how the world works, including all the awful things humans are capable of doing to each other. Past a certain point, there’s nothing more to know, and anyone who tries to cultivate compassion does not really need to be…

“And don’t worry about the ground splitting open and swallowing you up.”