Your local small business crafting shop probably has a list of local people who would LOVE to make you comfy pants (I am one such person, so I can tell you that in the Seattle area, they definitely do!) for a pretty reasonable price...definitely more reasonable than Eileen Fisher! Everyone thinks going to a seamstress…

I’ve lived in Seattle my whole life (home of, according to my East Coast husband, the “deification of Orcas”) and a few years ago on Christmas Eve we were taking the ferry home, and there’s usually at least like 3 separate families of tourists on the ferries hoping out loud to see a whale, even if it’s totally not the…

Oh my god, thank you. He is the fucking DRIPPIEST WORST. He’s so boring. And I’m sorry, but he sleeps over but there is no fucking? There’s respecting your wishes and the there’s just being a martyr.

This comment just made my day. Also: so accurate.

Reply to myself to add that I should have specified that this rant is about a very specific type of parent of a child with a disability; there are a lot of parents out there doing a great, empathetic job, and you are amazing.

Something else that never gets mentioned when people are inspo-porning about what a “blessing” it is to have a child with a disability; what does the child feel about it? We’ll never know, but I cannot imagine that being trapped in a body that doesn’t move, allow you to speak, and that probably gives you a great deal…

I’m pretty certain that her family is very religiously conservative, and I knew a lot of girls like that in high school who DEFINITELY still followed all of their parents’ rules. One of them preached the word in the lunch line every day. I have no trouble believing that she wasn’t allowed/followed orders. But since…

This is so relevant to me right now. We just filed the papers to ask for 3rd party custody of my youngest brother (he is a minor and my other sibs and I are adults) because my mom is just not equipped to raise him right now. We should have done it 6 months ago, but our lawyer basically said “the court will not listen…

So we went to the Humane Society and they had the perfect cat to be a friend for our kitten Jack (above), named Calvin, only Calvin was bonded to his sister Punpkin and they had to be adopted together. It happens that Pumpkin has a very similar personality to our older cat Stella - very chill, more interested in…

He looks like my guy!

Oh my god the you’re so brave thing drives me absolutely nuts. I’n not brave. I’m afraid or angry or just meh about it all the time, but what’s my alternative? Literally the alternative is to cease to be. I don’t exist without my RA, so I don’t get a choice. And the unsolicited medical advice is INSANE. I found out in…

It messes with your head after a diagnosis like this. It’s so overwhelming already, and all of a sudden people react to you way differently - nobody knows what to say to you so they just give you sad eyes and tell you they’re so sorry. They mean well, but it makes it worse, and I cannot even IMAGINE how much that…

From essentially birth, my family has called me some variation of “tootie”. Family legend says that one of my cousins couldn't pronounce my given name, which, for the record, sounds NOTHING like tootie, but I think they really just wanted to torture me by using it in front of my friends when I was in school - though…

I also found out in the last year that I can’t get pregnant, up top! Though mine is because of a chronic illness leading to the words “it could kill you” - my uterus works fine, I guess, though with said body, probably not. Anyway! My best friends (who are, handy for me, married to each other) just had a baby and I am…

In Seattle I pay about $60-80, depending, but I usually go with sugaring or hard wax as opposed to regular waxing, and those will will run slightly more. Sugaring gives me the best results...I seem to be unfortunately prone to ingrown hairs and regular wax seems to encourage them. Look for places that are CLEAN - the…

Agree agree agree!

My best friend was in a relationship with a guy who was all kinds of emotionally manipulative, and I was the ONLY one in our friend group who had the balls to say something. It messed up our friendship for a while, but I never regretted it - I would never have been able to live with myself if it had progressed beyond…

I read this book twice and it’s amazing and important and I’m really excited that the school is assigning it to 10th graders. What was done to Henrietta in the name of science was awful, and the author does a fantastic job of laying out all the ethical issues without devaluing the enormous medical gains that came from…

Oh god I so feel you. For me it’s the quilts though - like people are under the impression that a queen size, hand made quilt should be somewhere around $75. Bitch PLEASE. I may make functional art, but it is art nonetheless and that is just NOT going to happen.

I have nothing to add to this perfect comment except that I 1000% agree with you. I mean, A for effort for sure, but this is why when I say “I make and design patterns for knits and quilts”, people hear “I inflict terrible sweaters and gross quilts on the world”