Spices. I buy all my spices from a specialty retailer (Penzy’s). Some are less expensive than grocery store brands, but most are more. But, the quality and variety are completely worth it. The flavor is so much better and the blends they offer are really tasty. And there is no comparison between their vanilla extract…

The first story makes me think of the stories out of Japan about lonely otaku going on “dates” with their body pillows.

Just avoid GMOs

Or that they were out of monogrammed thermoses... perhaps?

Is there a term for ironic application of Pinkham’s law?

Fightbridge Academy?

I’ve been to three funerals in my life, but my great grandmother’s funeral when I was seventeen has to be the weirdest/most uncomfortable one of them all.

When my son passed away, he was 14 months old and a friend had brought his young daughter up from KY for the funeral. It was late January and she had never seen snow so she started doing snow angels and playing in the snow at the cemetery. The other kids who were there were looking at their parents for the same…

After being dead for 18 years, my father in law still has a stalker.

This story is one that happened to a friend’s family. My friend’s father is an incredibly well-spoken, intelligent guy, so when his father died, he was chosen to give the eulogy.

My grandma is a real bitch. Imagine Joan Crawford in Mommy Dearest and throw religion into the mix. That’s my grandma. She never let my mom and aunt have friends over, and any friends they did have, she started really terrible rumors about them. She never came to visit us, didn’t come to my wedding, my cousin’s…

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god why do people enjoy themselves in public when I’m trying to be a cranky mccrankster

Fellow Jersey Girl, yay!

Upon delivery, the child complained that the boardwalk in Wildwood just isn’t as cool as it used to be.

listen you, bring a vibrator when you are going to see Man from UNCLE

Lady does job while pregnant, news at 11.

Can I just let folks know that Tig’s documentary is on Netflix. Can’t get enough of her.

Many years ago at the group home for developmentally disabled teens where I worked there was a resident who really, really wanted to go to the best steak house in the city for his 18th birthday. He had behavior and anger issues, but was determined to earn that birthday dinner, and he managed it. So another staff…