My picks for the 2017 Emmy’s.

There’s no denying that celebrities can say dumb shit, lies even, in a rush to position themselves as heroes and martyrs. Y’all remember when Chris Pratt gave up his dog because he thought it might be a danger to his new baby? Yeah, that post did not go as expected. I still think about that every time I look at his…

I know someone whose mother would make them pound nails into the ground when they as kids dared to complain about being bored. It was silly busy work, which is (justly) what you get when you complain about not having anything to do.

I have definitely been relieved at the change in attitude about hair. As a white woman I have coarse, wavy hair. It’s not kinky, it’s barely even curly, except on high humidity days. But yeah. Ignoring the many kinds of hair types — black and otherwise — is just plain wrong. It’s extremely disappointing to read about.

Thank you for reminding me about this great moment in television history. 🤥🤥🤥🤥

The tone of minimum wage service industry work environments is one of constant hassle, disrespect, and total control via middle management. It comes from the customer, but it’s mirrored exactly by the business owners. At Chipotle in particular, they are pressured to keep the line moving at a break neck speed. Once…

I just had a brief run-in with a kid who deliberately waited until I had left the dogs sitting in the shade for a moment. He ran up to them and petted them. I quickly bought a few grocery items, my eye on them the whole time through the window. I returned to them, and the kid circled the dogs like a guilty shoplifter.…

As a pet sitter, I don’t allow the dogs I take care of to approach other dogs on the street. It frequently creates awkwardness with other pet owners, but I don’t care. My job is to keep the dogs I care for safe, and if that means they don’t get to meet a stranger on the street, then so be it. I tell you this because…

I spend a lot of time in other people’s houses, and lately I’ve noticed that the majority of homes have funky smelling towels. It must be a slow development and nobody notices. I’ve noticed that just switching laundry detergent can change that. One detergent cleans out another? Not sure.

Here’s another good habit to abandon; stop thinking the word “perfectionist” is a compliment, when what it actually means is, intransigent, obsessive compulsive, and exhausting to other people. Unable to abandon a bad idea.

The flip side to this dilemma is that changing your mind after constant nagging gives them a clear message: ask again and maybe this time you’ll get the desired result!

I think the tradeoff should be that you promise to be fair and reasonable and they promise not to nag you into the dirt.

But did you try adding shredded chard and topping with soy sauce, cayenne, and butter? Because I think this would have made the list.

Works for me.

I guess what I would suggest is a tiered alternative. Fill the perimeter with drought tolerant plants and set aside a much smaller area for grass. Just enough to sit on during an early summer evening.

Crushed granite is a favorite ground cover in my area, and it invariably gets stuck on the bottom of people’s shoes and scratches up their wood and laminate floors. Not so pretty. Also, it hurts like the devil when you step on it, so no going outside with bare feet, not even just to get the paper.

Regarding dying cacti, that would be me. Turns out that the plant in question is an agave plant.

I love the idea of filling a yard with a variety of alternative, drought-tolerant plants. What I don’t like is the idea that filling your yard with rocks is a great choice that everyone can turn to in case they don’t enjoy watering their yard. Actually the above photo of the yard with a cactus in it (?) bums me out.…

And if I was your future neighbor in your future home, I’d give you dirty looks every day of your life. Not only is that an ugly choice, it’s terrible for the environment. Why don’t we just make the entire country a parking lot?

How do you get rid of the boogs in your nose then? I’ll stop if it’s a real problem, I just can’t stand it when my nose is full of green monsters.

None of these muhfuckas spent any time raising a family? Children? That tells you everything you need to know about the lopsided war of the sexes.