I don’t know if it comes from growing up without one or what, but I’ve never understood people who intentionally put just about anything in the garbage disposal. Some stuff ends up there while prepping/cooking and doing dishes, but I can’t imagine putting food scraps down it on purpose.

Most people won’t, because they have self-identified as ‘not talented enough’.  It’s great that you never suffered from that kind of obstacle, but for those that do, this sort of thing is an accessible vector toward taking time to really focus on an illustration, and invest something of yourself into it.  It sounds to…

How’s my landlord going to pay his mortgage? Got any letters for that? What about the job I’m taking away from someone else who’s also trying to make ends meet. Is there an Office 2016 Word template for that?

Well, you can upload an image of any size, but the image they give you back is only 500x500 pixels. Pretty useless.

“When you have one child, it’s a child in an adult house.” This! This is the feeling I have with our one child, and it is a good feeling that we want to preserve.

...huh. Well shit. Thank you and I’ll be doing some reading and maybe getting myself a new bumper sticker, too.

I tend to put them all in one or two spots but I remember my mother was always finding gifts days and weeks after Christmas, once we finished unwrapping all the gifts she would say something like, “did you get a such and such” and if we didn’t she put it on the list of lost toys and go digging through closets and the…

That was really helpful. Thanks for sharing!

Here’s my story: For many years, I was extremely envious of a coworker, we’ll call her Annie. Annie was nice enough, I didn’t know her well, and honestly, I kept my distance because she seemed SO perfect, so good at her job. She beat me out for jobs TWICE. Our supervisors would hold up Annie’s work as examples of how…

My wife used to pneumonia every year. It would lay her out for weeks. She used to say that her year was really only 46 weeks long compared to everyone elses 52. The other 6 she was laid up.  If I heard this story at a party I’d think they were making it up, but I’ve known her for 20 years and I saw it 18 times.  She…

I get a lot of mood swings (thanks, PCOS!) and the best way through them is to remind myself they’re not really real and I won’t feel that way forever. 

I hate needles. I hate everything about them. I still get my vaccines and flu shot as needed. Why? So I don’t end up in a situation, or cause one because that’s even worse, just like that.

I’m just gonna post this here in anticipation of anyone who thinks that getting a flu shot isn’t important.

I’m an old you little shit. I don’t want any goddamn paper receipts. I don’t want an app either

I’m an old you little shit. I don’t want any goddamn paper receipts. I don’t want an app either. I am sick of signing up for apps and creating accounts and bothering with any of it. I merely want to pay and go. I don’t need a bag or a receipt or an email or a notification. I just want my box of condoms without…

Kasha varnishkes! 

Laying down with my dog who isn’t going to live much longer; drinking beer; listening to old school soul music. Giving my dog bits of steak every so often. For multiple reasons this week has been an emotional roller-coaster and a cluster-#@!* of emotions.

I just got back from my first time canvasing. I was not enjoying it until I rang Carl’s doorbell. Carl complained that he was sick of everybody coming to his door and leaving pamphlets everywhere. After he complained for a minute and got it off his chest I excused myself so he could go on with his evening and as I…

Saying politics isn’t “that” important is a place of great, great privilege. Sure people like you and I could borrow out today and not much difference would be made. Our lives are great like that... But politics IS that important to MANY MANY people (i work with them every day, day in and day out, and their lives have…

Undergrad is painfully stupid in some regards.