No Running (in the Hall)

backstory: the school I work at in Vancouver, BC is being seismically upgraded, as are many because many of the schools built in VSB are gaining on 100 years old. In March (2020), before spring break, we all tirelessly packed up our entire classrooms in boxes to be moved over Spring Break to our ‘new school’ for the…

You can’t blame everything on the cats

Back in high school, my parents were strict about my curfew and driving long distances. I thought it was lame then, but I would not drive 2 hours with a 17 year old behind the wheel now.

I posted this story last year, but I was sort of late in my submission and it ended up buried about 5,000 comments down. Now, two days into the contest and there’s already 365 comments! Well, here’s hoping it gets seen this year.

Creepy Footsteps

I was in an abusive relationship. It was a long time before the abuse surf5, and I  was shocked when it did. I never saw it coming. I had never been exposed to anything like that. I don't want to be mean or step into a situation I don't really know, and I thought about this a while before posting. This will almost…

Twenty or so years ago, I and my four brothers are at my grandmother’s house in a wealthy suburb of Boston. Our unmedicated, bipolar mother is there, and she’s agitated and starting to drink (she went through periods of thinking God had cured her of her bipolarity and would then abandon her meds, and why not a week…

Yeah, and Sean Duffy had the nerve to complain how hard it was to raise his child army and keep two houses on his Congressional salary and gold-plated benefits and pension for life. Fuck him. You know he’d be the first to tell poor people not to have so many kids if they don’t want to be poor. Party of personal…

I don’t recall ever disliking Rachel on the show, I was also 8 and used to watch it with my dad (my parents never cared what I watched on tv, which may see cool but they didn’t care about me much in general) so I just thought she was pretty and seemed cool. I really need to rewatch this show with my adult eyes, was…

Sean Duffy. I think they met during one of the Real World/Road Rules Challenges, and the world was made a little bit worse.

Dated my ass. Needing to keep one's fingers out of the communal peanut butter is timeless. Puck.

*fetches biscuits to go with tea and yes, I do mean cookies and no, not those ones you Yanks dredge in horse-cum and claim is a tasty breakfast. What is wrong with you people?*

As a Canadian I can confidently say this guy’s plaid game is weak. 

Oh cool, does she have a vaguely Portuguese accent now?

People are strange, particularly when you’re a stranger.

I regret these strappy Steve Madden sandals I bought once. They cut up my feet. Let’s ban shoes.

That, and we do things all the time we regret. People who have children regret it; people who place children with adoption regret it; people who have to surrender their children into the foster system regret it; people who get divorced and have to split custody regret it.... still, none of those things are being…

Those signs are infuriating! “I regret my abortion” but you had the option to get one didn’t you!

Those signs are really pissing me off “I Regret My Abortion.” I’m sorry that you do, that’s awful. Doesn’t mean that everyone, or even the majority of people, regret them, and you shouldn’t take away other people’s options just because you regret your choice.