I’m pretty sure I was a “Samantha” as a child.

I’m pretty sure I was a “Samantha” as a child.

I was taught to hug people I didn’t want to hug, and I think this idea contributed to my being unable to speak up about inappropriate touches from a “beloved” family member for years. I was very well aware of swimsuit areas that were private, and that no one should touch me except maybe doctors sometimes. Yet the…

Have sex with them right after a shower so you can tell if it’s a cleanliness issue or something else. Or shower with them if you want to be extra sure they’re cleaning those places.

This reminds me of a family recipe for 40 clove garlic soup. It’s only made when someone has a fever, and they will stink for three days of garlic, but my grandmother used to swear by it. Some of the garlic was oven roasted and puréed, and some was sautéed, other cloves just minced, with other veggies. It was good…

Never heard of Parker House rolls in my life. Had to google, and I guess they’re a thing, but I’m pretty sure everyone else in the us just calls them rolls? What makes them different? 

Household hours are super important. I work nights usually and am a night owl, like I typically go to be between 5-7 a.m. And wake up between 1:30-3 p.m. If I know a household gets loud around lunchtime, I do make an effort to be up around noon and have lunch with them, but it’s hard.

Hahah at 16! What the fuck? Ten. Try ten. I’m thirty and have spent twenty years spending 12-20 dollars a month onmenstruation supplies. This will continue for another twenty years at least.

Bomba Estereo! Yay!

I used to read a few street fashion photography blogs, but I’m otherwise not much into the fashion world.

I have migraines with aura ( the fun visual hallucinations ), and have had them since I started my period at ten. In my early twenties, I stopped eating meat for the most part and that really helped. I realized the correlation when I had some ham at a holiday party and had a migraine kick in a few hours later. I…

I don’t know anyone under the age of 2 or over 65. I work from home. I literally leave my house and garden maybe once a week to eat at a restaurant or go to a bar. The flu shot has always seemed silly to me. I’m not going to be a Typhoid Mary level vector even if I did catch it.

This is especially true at the end of a growing season here in Michigan, and for people in milder climates it has to be a big issue. I could leave my pots unwatered in hot sun for a weekend in June and they were fine, but if I had done that in August they would all have died.

Tracking my spending in my early twenties showed me just how much I was spending on beer and other intoxicants, that when I did the math for what a decade of that would be I was fucking astonished. So I suggest tracking your spending for a few months, and seeing if you have anything that seems small to you in the…

I’m a gardener, now in a house, but back when I was apartment-dwelling, I had chives, parsley, and dill in pots on my windowsill, as well as tons of aloe vera, Jade plants, and mother-in-law’s tongue plants as general houseplants. They were easy to grow in a relatively dim apartment.

As someone who has acne and red splotchy hyperpigmentation post-acne, your 7 a.m. Selfie looks good! I wish my skin looked like yours in the before! I can see your skin is more even and glowy in the after, but damn girl. Good for you.

As someone who has acne and red splotchy hyperpigmentation post-acne, your 7 a.m. Selfie looks good! I wish my skin looked like yours in the before! I can see your skin is more even and glowy in the after, but damn girl. Good for you.

Ill be thirty in a few weeks, and it went right over my head.

Saltines gross me out because in my parents’ house, we only had them if we had a gastrointestinal issue. They will forever remind me of having the flu as a result.

I’ve hated him ever since I had to watch The Pillow Book in a college film class. We get it, Peter Greenaway likes nudity, and Ewan is quite proud of his wiener.