I’m in my early 40s and grew up with Degrassi Jr. High & Degrassi High. We’d watch it on our PBS station in NJ. Sometimes my mom would even watch it with us. So much of what transpired on that show happened around us in real life: Spike & her baby; Erica & her abortion; Shane’s traumatic brain in jury; Shane drunk…

Some guy in front of me at the grocery store last week was face timing with his wife and child while checking out.

Dear Salty,

We need to revise our bio terror laws, because she needs to be in prison for a very, very, very long time.

On behalf of all french people: Fuck you with a rusty rake.

As someone who is immunocompromised, may I just say: I hope she gets an infected ingrown taint hair that doesn’t heal right for at least a month. 

Read Luis Urrea and the other authors who Cummins credits with “inspiring” her.

My money’s on the supplier pulling out, Amazon was already trying to lower Whole Foods pricing, and I bet they were pushing the supplier to do the same for them. Said supplier probably then couldn’t maintain or went under, or just said fuck it and pulled out of the deal.

I had been seeing Andrew (yes, that’s his real name) for about a year when mutual friends of ours announced their engagement. These friends were the first in both of their families to marry, so both families wanted to make the wedding A Very Big Deal. The adorable couple (henceforth known as AC) made all the plans,…

Goddammit, now I’m craving a bloody mary.

Hopefully none of which include putting it in your vagina, but knowing Gwyneth...

I was running late for a train once. But I was really hungry. So I ran into Trader Joes and grabbed two bags of dried apples. And I ate them on the train. So I had to sit there for 2 hours on a train while feeling the gas developing.

Onions for me.

My mom hates olives.  And her name is “Olive”.  Though maybe that’s why she hates them.

I once had a breakdown at work. No one said anything to me other than a few cursory “please calm down”s. I was never the most social but from that point on I can’t help but feel people just became more distant. No one addressed that incident again. Maybe it’s because they are all emotionally stunted engineers.

Brene Brown is so inspirational; I love her! Been to a few of her lectures. I especially like her comments on being gentle with oneself, and also her writings on how wives don’t let their husbands be vulnerable and how it contributes to their epidemic depression and loneliness. I realized that being a good feminist…

I like greens, but hate the way they’re most often cooked. Too many people boil the hell out of them until they taste like farts. A light saute and they’re good. 

I don’t eat fish very often, but when it occurs I make sure it’s from somewhere that it is fresh and not fishy. I also live on a coast so maybe that makes the fresh part easier? On Xmas I had salmon and it was lovely, not at all fishy. One of my few pictures of food. Beet sauce over horseradish mashed potatoes, from a…

Also, it smells amazing and when you bite into a piece it tastes like sadness and disappointment. 

Easily the most over-cooked fish. This is not stew beef, folks. There should be some moisture in there, and it most assuredly should not smell. I cook it on aluminum foil without oiling the foil. The skin sticks to the foil And you lift off the salmon.  A very few minutes in a very hot oven and it’s ready.

I know it’s not good for you, and that kinda beats the point of the article, but I am glad that there’s a place where I can say this out loud: