I was a journalism major in college and my friends and I had all manner of lofty dreams about glamorous news careers. Just about a month ago, one friend and I managed to get together because he was in town to cover the Mets-Dodgers series for his paper. He’s not at the paper he wants to be at, and Lord knows I feel…

If there were a shorter distance to travel between putting the kids to bed as mom and entering the bedroom as sexy woman.

what I’ve learned is that many dads would rather get laid than receive a Father’s Day gift

I agree, especially if they are family. That is why I helped my father in law with his recent purchase, even though he can be a major pain in the ass. But as a disabled vet who has memory problems and is way too trusting of sales people for some strange reason, he would have been fresh meat.

If you don’t have much of a social life like me, then a visit to the coffee shop might be the only contact you have with other humans outside of work. I would go crazy(er) if I didn’t get to spend that 20 minutes in a different environment than the depressing home/work scene that I’m in the other 23 hours of the day.…

Obnoxious and shitty. Any group of women who will gang up to beat up a fast food employee is, in my experience, exactly the kind of person who will also try to pretend their glasses aren’t from Sams Club, but from much classier Target and mock or sneer at you if you “look poor” or aren’t tanned, or don’t dump money…

as a native Ohioan, i am in awe of your incredibly apt description of those type of women. seriously. everything you said to describe them is perfect…well, except for the glasses bit. Target eye centers just started rolling out in Ohio last fall, and as one who wears glasses, I decided to peruse their frame offerings.…

Skunk stripes, blue frosted cream shadow, and barbed wire arm band tattoos (for the girls) and tribals (for the dudes) are also hallmarks but I feel like you have to drive like, about 20 miles off any given loop highway for it to be an ongoing “thing” The people who live around me now in the big scary “city” do not…

No words have ever been more real than when you typed “Jayden’s Mom”. *Fistbump to you from my former home on the Indiana side of the state line, where dreams go to die*

This is almost every person I went to high school with.

“It Was Never Not the 90's. (subtitle) A Tale of Ohio”

On the upside when one of those bitches tried to physically pull me out of a (Mcdonalds!) drive through window my small stature and the relative height of the window meant she couldn’t tip me over enough to get me out the window. It did not help her that I was…

Oh fuck me. This is the very particular brand of lower middle class white trash Ohio seems to grow like it’s the only thing our soil supports. From the hard slick back ponytails to the Midwestern mommy facebook outrager version of the “I want to talk to the manager, never mind lets beat some ass” haircut, Sams club…

Noticeably, no one is calling them thugs, questioning their marital or baby daddy status or asking if they are on welfare since they seemed have had time to waste waiting in the parking lot to wild out on one woman. Had they been Black, they would not have been treated so leniently and they know it judging from the…

Things I have learned since I moved to Ohio lo these (7) many years ago.

I’m always intrigued by this particular look and don’t know what to call it. American chav? The scraped back hair, rectangular glasses, deliberate, yet bad, eyebrows. I see them and wonder what this is uniform for.

The show was a lot.

If I was able to write in my option, I’d pick for “90s security lines.” Cockpit doors are closed, passengers now assume hijackers want to crash the plane rather than fly to Cuba, we’re good.

I think we should pass a law evaluating the effectiveness of these new damn procedures...

True story: I’ve actually done that once, when I was a teenager. He was flirting with me and I asked if I could touch his dimple and he let me.