Are there more in this treasure trove? I await your reply with a pregananant pause.

Ehhhh he was just excited to see me and was whining and prancing around, waiting for his ear scratches as I squatted. He waited until I was ready to pet him, after I had scrubbed my hands like I was going into the OR. He usually pees when he sees me, but he did not this time. He knew it was the last thing I needed.

I loathe almost all aspects of xmas, but watching Home Alone with friends and our own cheese pizzas every year is one tradition I love. We have store-bought cheese pizzas, add grownup toppings, and some drinks for those who partake.

I’m guilty too. I stopped it before the end but it still got me.

Ask older relatives to send you what their first dance songs were, ask parents to let you know what songs their kids like, ask friends to send you what songs will get them on the dance floor.

My niece graduated elementary school last year and went on to middle school. The outgoing 5th graders got captions under their yearbook pictures saying what their future careers would be. About a third of our future want to be “YouTubers”, and I did not know this was even a thing. My niece, thankfully, wants to be a…

“She died doing what she loved.” -Crazy Cat Lady’s eulogy after being mauled to death by fur babies

But does it record my orgasms?

I can top that. Me, putting in my Diva Cup at my brother’s house, where the downstairs bathroom has the doggie door. I was in my preferred Diva Cup insertion position, in a toddler squat with pants and chonies all the way down. Here comes Fido, who is always hot mess levels of delighted to see me but now is not the…

I didn’t know about this. I don’t keep up with hip-hop blogs the way I used to, but it gives me background on a lot of the good works he’s getting known for. I can’t deal with xtianity for what Catholic and Presbyterian boarding schools did to Indigenous children, and related atrocities.

If you’re looking for female MCs, I’m reposting ones I like here for you, along with suggested tracks to start out with.

Audre Lorde appreciates you.

If you haven’t listened to hip-hop after Kanye’s “The College Dropout”, please try not to speak in absolutes about hip-hop, which is different from rap. Cardi B is a rapper, not an MC. Hip-hop is an American art form that came to us by way of Jamaica’s toasting scene, and was pioneered by racially diverse crews from…

Georgia Anne Muldrow

Right, and dismissing her outright for speaking in AAVE. “She needs to get educated” although where she comes from, the odds are she didn’t have generational wealth allowing her to pause for four years after high school to do that.

MC Lyte has been saying the same thing about feminism for (checks watch) decades, so this is not new. Plus rather than being content with hustling *iggas, MC Lyte started the Hip Hop Sisters Network, which for years, has given out over $750,000 in college scholarships to minority women around the world. I believe she…

My son’s school often does these fundraisers where if you eat at the place, a portion of the profits go to the school. There’s one this week at Chipotle and I know of a few other moms who plan on not going in droves, because their food is garbage. Their beans are always dry, mealy and cracked, ugh. My son normally…

Admittedly I do not go for white men (don’t flame me- my dad is dark-skinned, we have a great relationship and I go for dark-skinned men with beards), but Blake Shelton’s face looks like a deli ham with stubble. And not the good ham that is recognizably pig meat, but the pale pink square that is processed af.

My screen name and yours are cute!

I’m happy to see something positive come out of this news cycle about sexual assault, which has been making me cry here and there, mostly when I’m in the car alone by myself.