We should do that, for kids who can't read good and wanna learn to do other stuff good too.

So, I just started binge watching Luther on Netflix. Whoa, holy hell. I thought Dexter was intense but I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight. Or answer the door again, ever.

It's funny how these sitcom dads are presented as being, fun, cool, groovy, understanding but are the opposite. I thought the same thing about the Cosby show. The parents are seen as being so understanding, but just the opposite. I thought they were really overbearing and were only understanding when the kids did…

Omg yes, all my friends and I went to a christian summer camp, not because any of us were christian but because it was the best summer camp in our area with the best activities (12 year old me had no problem putting up with some preaching for horseback riding, archery, and kayaking). Anyways, we were told that we were…

I have an MFA in Creative Writing and feel weird talking about writing to people outside of the trade. It just feels...unseemly. There's no way to talk about it that doesn't come off as humble bragging or sounding like a total layabout.

(But on the real, what's your book about?)

If I were to change my mind, I would bring up fostering a child. Partner really doesn't want children and I will never change my mind about physically having them. There are SO MANY children in the foster system that are fostered by crappy foster parents. Good foster parents are saints.

I don't have kids, and have always known I would never have them. (I'm a man, fyi.) Even as a kid when my Father would say, "Someday you'll have kids...," and I would reply, "I'm never going to have them, Pop," I knew it wasn't going to be. Not so much because of some express disdain for that scenario, but because I…

understand the difference between loving kids (I plan on being a child psychologist) and wanting to dedicate your life to raising them.

So I broke up with my therapist this week. (At the end of Bonnet's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Thursday, no less.)

Actually, John Paul II canonized 91 saints, more than every pope in the last 5 centuries combined.

What the hell is O'Charleys??

Pretty sure those on the coasts think the Midwest = Nevada through Ohio & Idaho through Arkansas. Don't Manhattanites consider upstate the Midwest, too?

i'm from Illinois/Wisconsin (moved from one to the other several times in my life) and i've never heard of O'Charleys, but there's a Cracker Barrel up on the highway that i think we've eaten at once. they're pretty expensive, as i recall.

Yep. I'm in the Midwest, too, and I first heard of this place when I read the headline to this post.

I'm from the Midwest and I've never heard of this place.

No, Ron Swanson is the man's man.

Cracker Barrel is the Cracker Barrel of the Midwest.

Never heard of O'Charley's. The Midwest has a Cracker Barrel. It's called Cracker Barrel.

Cracker Barrel is the Cracker Barrel of the midwest.

You need a more Midwestern Cracker Barrel than Cracker Barrel?