It really, really is. Fun fact, my great aunt (her sister) lives on their parents farm, which in the 20s was equipped with a very nice still. Gran’s sister periodically will make moonshine and peach schnapps and reeeeeaaaaaaalllly bad wine.

To add further insult to Ms James, my gran had no problem keeping 15 years worth of Harlequin titles such as ‘Firemen Play with Fire’ or some such dreck. 50 Shades was beyond the pale.

She has all of that writers titles.

As she is made entirely of snark, her comment at the time was that we compost garbage, and burn trash.

I wasn’t sure that I would post it. She’s dying rn and I’m going to skip my class tomorrow so I can drive down to say goodbye. She will turn 88 on Dec 28th.

An acquaintance of mine is a Christian romance writer. While I always regarded her work with a bit of condescension, both for its subject matter and her less-than-polished writing style (or flaws in historical and cultural accuracy), I’ve since come to realize that her work is a coping mechanism. Her husband is a…

My gran Fanda divorced her abusive husband in 1970, though that legal decree was years in the making. These books saved her innermost self afterwards. She told me that after almost 20 years of daily assaults, that she felt when she left him that her body was a thing god made specifically for punishment. She didn’t…

Last year my brother’s fiance’s daughter’s boyfriend declared Natives a “pestilence”.

There was that one thanksgiving I was being screamed at by both of my sisters for accepting evolution as scientific fact. They seemed to take it as a personal affront since they think the earth is only a few thousand years old and scientists are just Satan’s minions trying to trick us. This all came as quite a shock…

They were LITERALLY asked what Apps they use the most on their phones. God forbid they actually have to outline their plans to balance the budget (we know, cut taxes and all programs that benefit the poor, cause they just need to work harder).

This is one of the best mic drops I’ve ever read.

I’m not sure why some feminists feel the need to mock domestic things like ironing, cooking, baking, etc. I understand that these are not things that women should feel obligated to do in the home simply because they are women, but fuck it. I like baking. I’m making two types of bread today. Dill and garlic. Sun-dried…

This story would’ve made the cut if it had been e-mailed to me.

That white zinfandel story reminds me of something that happened at the first bar I ever worked.

These two dude bros straight up swagger up to the bar (which was fairly busy). Popped collar hamptonites with less money than they want you to assume they have. The one guy leans in over the bar and shouts “Lemme get a ZIN…

You’d think since there’s a reasonably popular restaurant named Chipotle now it would have become a mainstream word that everyone can recognize.

(Editor’s Note: Like I’m ever going to pass up a story that makes fun of Tim Hortons...)

I'd love to see a tally of all the taxpayer dollars the "fiscally responsible" conservatives have wasted fighting same-sex marriage. At this point it's like throwing bags of cash at the oncoming tide.

At first I thought he had been arrested on stage mid-musical, and now I am sorely disappointed.

Precisely my intent. :)