No. “LOVE” became cliche as a victim of its own popularity, but Seward Johnson starts with cliche and goes downhill from there.

Someone pointed this out several days ago on Twitter and it is now my OBSESSION.

I gave out a bonus point each time someone corrected my spelling, which is admittedly terrifyingly bad, and hopefully proved by example that perfection wasn’t the point of writing, effectively advocating for one’s own ideas is. Also, Hawthorne himself didn’t even spell it Hawthorne until he graduated college, so I’m…

So sorry for your loss. I hope you have the support you need right now. 

“Dean runs an asphalt-paving company, which she probably doesn’t watch him do either. “

I appreciate this sentence

Saint Dolly was always the realest person in the room. Martha Stewart and a sizable portion of talk show hosts (not just the women hosts ) was biting Dolly’s style long before I could even make the friendly, bawdy, but subdued connection. Heck, she outshined Al Franken in the comedy department.

They should! When the Black Panthers were publicly carrying guns in the late 60s in California it was Governor Ronald Reagan, Republicans, and the NRA who all supported a law banning open carry. Perhaps if the Squad joins these QAnon psychos we might get some actual gun control laws.

THIS! Those assholes straight up broke the number one public transit code, if a lone traveller is being harassed you bring them into your travel fold! 

This happened when I was around 13 or 14. My dad had recently passed away, so it was just me, my mom, and my 5-years-younger brother. After my dad died, my mom became really adamant about always keeping the doors locked all the time, even though we lived in a safe, quiet neighborhood in a safe, quiet Alaskan town. I…

This story comes from my dad, who is basically the absolute coolest. He spent his 20s traveling all over the world. He would live in a place for a while, crashing wherever and working odd jobs, then he’d move on to a new city, or state or country. He has truly incredible stories and he loves to tell them. But he has…

I told this one before, but I posted really late so I’ll try again this year.

I had to make a burner for this so it’ll prob stay in the greys.

I’m not sure if this is truly scary but it has creeped me out and given me nightmares for many years. When I was 8 or 9 we lived in a pretty safe neighborhood and used to play with other kids in the area. One family with kids lived on the street behind us and a couple blocks over. We used to take a cut-through between…

This is the scariest story I know.

My mom met Paula through the Pittsburgh Junior League in the mid-80s. They’d both moved to the area after getting married, and became fast friends.

Over the years, we went to many a summer cook-out at Paula’s lovely 1920s bungalow, where she lived with her husband and two young sons. But one gathering in particular,…

That's actually kind of... sweet. 

I am the spooky friend. Like, I’m the friend people call when they have questions about the ghost in their attic or how to stop a streak of nightmares. So when my job booked our massive yearly work training at a notoriously haunted hotel, a few close work friends asked if we could hold a seance. After some thinking…

Not my story - I ‘witnessed’ it, but was a baby at the time.

And remember: longer isn’t better, guys, pretty pls keep the unnecessary detail to a minimum kthnxbai

Welp, there goes any chance I had at productivity for today.