Think of this like the AIDS/STD PSAs from the 90s. Everyone you interact with - you’re interacting with everyone else they’ve interacted with, and vice versa. It’s the literal definition of cooties, but some of those cooties are invisible and stealthy.

I had to drop off a letter yesterday at a mailbox across the street from a Rita’s Custard/Flavor Ice place offering window service. People were making a half hearted attempt at distancing, but as they stood on the pavement and ate, but many parents were getting closer and closer to other parents, kids were getting…

Condescending Gen X asshole, thank you. The mac and cheese is the picture in post?? No one should use a dutch oven to make box mac and cheese if another pot is available. No one should start life with $200k in debt unless it’s to be an MD, and even then probably not; economically irrational. Same though if you’re…

True in the context of corporate law, too.

Legal Zoom is often very bad, though I’m not a T&E lawyer, but even from what I remember from my state’s bar 20 years ago, this wouldn’t match my state’s laws. States very, very, very frequently have basic guidance on their own bar websites advising about what makes a will effective. I know because I looked it up a…

Those colors were the color of my parents dishes, appliances and vinyl kitchen floor until 1997. I still have shudders looking at those. 

I am old enough to be president, have a (thankfully) healthy bank account, but a small kitchen. I cook for two people, and the two scavenging dogs. I am mostly using cookware/dishes that are 10-25 years old (and I have a both of hand-me-downs I used in college/grad school that my husband forbade me to use anymore). I…

As a donor, they are very desperate, and I get calls and emails from both the local hospital system and the Red Cross. You can absolutely make an appointment with them before your scheduled donation, unless you are remote from a facility or if you haven’t waited long enough since your last donation.

I am in no way making it trivial. I firmly believe in its horrors, am completely socially distanced, call out others who crowd my space or flout rules for their convenience, advocate following more than the recommended precautions for others, and I watch as I want to do something other than to wait for a disease that 8…

You don’t have to distance from your household members unless they are under quarantine or infected. Unless the political press and paps are all housemates, then it’s a fine scolding.

To elaborate - Apparently, the people getting infected would choose to do so and they would be sequestered with others under supervision. He does not seem to be out there hoping people get unsuspectingly exposed/infected.

Your rent is more than a mortgage because your mortgage does not come with any upkeep, and has no binding obligations beyond the term of your rental agreement. Risk of loss, upkeep, insurance on the property and fixtures are on the owner. So, those are additional services that home ownership (funded by mortgage) do…

If you can’t whale on a trashcan with a bat, I suggest taking a hammer (claw end especially) or scissors on a cardboard box. Make sure there’s room for the claw/scissors to pierce through, no one around, and you are extra careful. Super satisfying. Don’t do it in front of a child or a pet; they’ll be scarred and…

I had to have my car towed twice in 2019, and sat with a guy at an accident recently. Tow truck drivers are gems.

Well, politicians have shown themselves to be stupid and short-sighted, but the axiom about kitchen table politics is true. If you have masses who are on the absolute financial brink, up and down the ballot, they will vote for people who did not bankrupt them or offer a better hope towards staying/getting afloat.…

I told colleagues earlier this week that the suicide rate might outpace the death rate from the virus. When you add in the economic uncertainty (either through job loss or trying to steer a business through this), being isolated, being locked up with others, the endlessness of this situation, existing mental…

So many of us CAN do little things:

Thanks! I pulled from an older 50-state chart. But I know CA and MD from personal experiencing processing employees or negotiating severance. Hoping all of them can get some assistance.

Mandatory PTO payout varies by state (country) and a few of the lucky ones (MD, CA) may be eligible. The NV ones probably not.

If you or that person has anxiety, consider making them something other than coffee or tea. Bake! Caffeine can exacerbate anxiety in some people, and so those who react to it must mindful that we’re not adding stressors to our lives even if the cup of coffee is reassuring and familiar. I love my espresso, but on…