where in the text of any personal essay does a reader ever read I AM A PERFECT PERSON; MY LIFE STORY IS UNEQUIVOCALLY THE RIGHT THING FOR EVERYONE ELSE TO DO

Anchovies are for weirdos.

Bodum Assam Tea press. Combines a teapot and a french press. You put loose leaf tea or bags in the infuser and when your tea reaches the desired strength, you just press down and the tea gets 'locked' into the bottom of the infuser. There's no mess, nothing to take out, super easy. And looks great.

Bodum Assam Tea press. Combines a teapot and a french press. You put loose leaf tea or bags in the infuser and when…

I vote for gaiwans. They are compact, easy to clean and fit all sorts of visual aesthetics. But more importantly, they allow the tea leaves to fully expand and provide the most even brewing because the leaves are not restrained. They are also ideal for brewing gong fu teas for when one is looking to intensify the…

I vote for gaiwans. They are compact, easy to clean and fit all sorts of visual aesthetics. But more importantly,…

yeah like come on

I've officially given up trying to have babies. I have a doctor's appointment the end of the month to go back on birth control. After 5 years of trying, I'm at the stage where it's either go all the way and do all of the treatments/tests/etc or give up and stop suffering with a period. I've decided that I don't want…

I have been happy and less stress lately. It is weird and I like it.

So do any of you folks have a reading goal for the year? IF SO, how are you guys doing?

So my husband just re-enforced why I love him so much. He was talking about how at work they were getting ready to interview a woman for a programming position, and some of his co-workers were making inappropriate comments. He didn't let it slide and called them out on it. I told him how proud I was of him, and how…

GUYS. i have good stuff happening. i recently moved to a great city full of people i love. i got my dream job, starting on monday. i bought a beautiful new dress. i'm going out celebrating a champagne year with my roommate tonight, and he gets a mad discount at this restaurant group, so we're going baller as fuck. I'M…

So this week I had all the testing done on my throat with the fun tube. Just FYI - 15 minutes of being poked in the sinuses with a tube is not a good time. But I found out that I probably don't have GERD after all (despite having been treated for it for years) and instead have no ability to swallow food. There was no…

The only good thing about impending Fifty Shades of Grey train wreck.

it should be illegal to do what most of the papparazzi does. it's straight up stalking and invasion of privacy, etc. i am not going to act like i am not a consumer but jesus h christ.

i can't believe these claims of things that have clearly happened. just can't believe it.

Whether you believe it or not, this does happen, and most of the moms are, after they overcome the shock, really normal, good mothers. In mist cases, there is good reason for denial, or for blaming the symptoms on other stuff. Especially with young women who have not yet witnessed pregnancy in friends, still have…

Listen, I can't really speak about the warty pigs (although you should know that the daddy pig involved was called "Elvis"), but those otters are fucking maniacs. A friend and I took my daughter on a "early morning bird call walk" (awesome, my daughter brought her bird call text book with her, we saw peregrine falcons…

Not with either of those dinosaurs. Let's get some fresh kids in there! And maybe, let's think big: Lupita N'yongo has the intern wedding planner and Oscar Isaac has the brother of a bride she meets.

i want to say that i am of the opinion that it is 100% chill to be repetitive and unoriginal as long as you aren't suffering from the illusion that you're otherwise. my instagram is just monotonous pictures of my dog

thank you erin

nick congrats on yer bod and like