My love of a mudroom type area in the entryway has nothing to do with status or being fancy and everything to do with 1. not wanting to wear my shoes and boots into the actual house and 2. a lifetime accumulation of injuries and surgeries making sitting down while putting on/taking off shoes a necessity. In my last…

Oh my god I had forgotten those wheat germ cookies! I remember making those with my mom.

I have made and eaten about a million no-bake chocolate oatmeal cookies in my life and am still not tired of them

I went back to my gym in May, because I’m still trying to rehab from two knee surgeries and while I was doing the best I could at home, with pitiful amounts of space and equipment, it didn’t take me long to notice I was losing ground. I had to weigh the risk of COVID vs compromising my knee functionality for the rest…

I’ve always worked in a conservative industry and it was always kind of a minor annoyance but not a huge deal—during the Dubya years I was pissed about what was happening in the US and had to listen to my co-workers rave about what a great president he was, and during the Obama years I had to listen to them froth at…

For years my favorite has been the Cheetos organic white cheddar puffs, and that favoritism has even survived some kind of change they made a few years ago that rendered them not quite as good as they were previously. They are less puffy now or something. It’s a subtle but noticeable change. I will still house a whole…

I signed a lease on a new construction apartment back in June and my move date has already been pushed back twice (originally August, then October, now December) due to delays related to COVID, one of which is delivery of the appliances.

I’m more repulsed by the idea of salmon and grapes than I am by the idea of cooking salmon in the dishwasher.

My great aunt used to make a pasta salad that everyone in the family loved, but she refused to share the recipe. A few years before she died, when she was getting too infirm to do much cooking, she passed the recipe on to my mother, who is considered The Best Cook in the Family. My mother was very honored by this, but…

I brush my teeth in the shower while I rinse the shampoo out of my hair. I have lots of hair that takes forever to rinse so I lift sections of it (to make sure I’m getting water to every spot) with one hand and brush my teeth with the other.

His comedy specials are on my list of pre-bedtime viewing favorites because they are lighthearted and there’s no yelling or loud noises. I checked out his Twitter several years ago and it was mostly just promo stuff for his specials, TV show, and tour dates--really bland and utilitarian. I’m surprised and delighted by…

The complete and total break from social obligations has been the one silver lining in all this mess for me. I have a big family (my mother is one of 11 kids) and there isn’t a week that goes by that doesn’t feature some kind of family event. My family for the most part has learned to live with my introvert ways and I…

Gah! A kitchen tonsillectomy is pure nightmare fuel.

Mine were the size of pinto beans before I had my tonsils out!

My mom had hers out as a kid and she says she can remember running around and playing the next day. I had mine out at 18 and was down for the count for weeks, and the pain was unreal. 

I had mine out at 18 due to chronic tonsillitis and I had a bleed out. My doctor never said a word about it or warned me, and this was pre-internet so I had no information on what to expect other than what the doctor said and what my mother, who had had hers out as a small child, could recall. I woke up in the middle…

In the Before Times after I went hiking on Sunday mornings I would often stop at my local gas station chain and get a cinnamon iced coffee and some kind of grab and go hot breakfast sandwich thing, whatever was on special for a buck that day. Because I live in an area with a high concentration of MAGAts who refuse to…

As a person with an onion allergy, I would perfectly happy if everyone would throw out onions forever. This is my first good news of 2020.

This my fave salad, eaten nearly daily in the summer. I dress it with olive oil, lemon juice, and a sprinkle of Penzey’s Greek Seasoning.

Oh my God I wanted to be Leather Tuscadero so badly when I was five.