In 2016, I vow everything, and promise nothing. Because I too stumble and stutter and stop, because I too am sometimes too cowardly for plain truth, because my abstract courage can dissipate in times when it’s most needed, and because I too have more to learn now than I ever have—because, in other words, I am a…

I read like a voracious word slut. I will do anything for a character that gets under my skin, for a wordsmith that spins a tale. Fuck that - poetry is my favorite tryst.

I want to announce publicly that in 2016 I will only read the collected works of left-handed disabled Bhutanese poets.

In the early days of our country, there were giant herds of wild lawyers, until the mass migration of paralegal settlers from ~1830-1870 decimated their populations.

Silly me. My husband and I (both hunting and gun-possessing citizens whose weapons were all legally purchased and are securely stored) just watched this and agreed with the vast majority Obama talked about. And I was remarking how I thought Obama did a really good job of reassuring people what these changes DIDN’T…

BHO: We need to do something about guns falling into the wrong hands and people getting killed.

“It’s not about guns it’s about mental health”

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio don’t get to say shit about illegal immigration, not one word. You know how many illegal Cuban immigrants there are in the US? None, because it’s not possible to be an illegal Cuban immigrant in the US. The US immigration policy towards Cuba is that if you get 1 foot on US soil, you’re here…

What the fuck is with all the rules? What is this, Dungeons and Dragons?

For some weird reason, my father told me that if you cut off your belly button, your butt would fall off. This fucking fascinated me, and I would spent way too much time thinking about what the inner workings of the human body could possibly be to make sure a thing happen.

OR they are over the age of 35 and just can’t let a sentence go without proper punctuation because they weren’t raised that way. Cher excepted because she has the soul of a teenager I suppose.

If someone came up from behind you with a knife, yes, it could save your life.

I trained in Krav for several years.

Think about it, though - even if it was wise to send children to disarm a shooter, how incredibly dangerous is it for Fox to make their viewers think that watching a TV segment is enough training for a child to do that?

Fighting is only when you LITERALLY HAVE NO OTHER OPTION.

Theoretically, I have no problems with ( maybe it’s even a good idea) teenagers taking self defense classes. Seeing a segment on morning news and determining you can now take down a gunman, is straight up stupidity. The kind of stupidity that teenagers excell in and adults SHOULD BE dissuading.

While trying to disarm a gunman is stupid, learning Krav Maga is actually very helpful. It can save your life and it is also a great exercise.