I’ve always wondered what Cory Booker would look like with a beard.

Ha! Thanks for the vote of confidence.

I would like to see him as VP, preferably to Klobacher but he would also work with Harris or Gillibrand.

I feel quite sad for Andy Murray. It's a horrible way to end a fantastic career, forced out by pain instead of choosing his own time. He's a Scottish hero.

So— bear with me, this starts off as a downer but ends on (hopefully) an up note.

You ever wake up one day and realize the life that you’ve always thought you wanted isn’t the one you want. At least not anymore.

By all accounts, I have a pretty good life and it’s been mostly the one I’ve wanted. I have a cute-ish condo in a decent neighborhood with a short bus commute and a pretty good job. I can…

I’ve started to indulge my creative side and write some “poetry”; I’ve been writing a lot recently as part of my counseling, and sometimes writing in a more formal journal style doesn't let me get things out fast enough, or else I overthink what I'm writing. I'm enough of a noob that I only know it's free verse, and…

8 weeks pregnant tomorrow, and everything is still looking good. We’re opting for the more advanced gene screening, which will cost $300 but will provide fewer false positives\negatives, AND will tell us the gender weeks earlier and will be based on DNA rather than guessing based on what someone sees on a sonogram.

Not an hour after I posted in last week’s SNS, a car hit and killed one of our newer cats, Jack. Rough weekend. Rough start to the new year, really.

Well my surgical recovery was chugging along nicely, but uhh... yesterday Mr. Bells went to pick up our son for a doctor’s appointment, slipped on the concrete steps in front of the school, tumbled down and broke his freaking shoulder.

Well folks, I had a baby this week. 10 days before her due date, actually. Labor was extremely fast (less than 1.5 hours from start to finish) and we BARELY made it to the hospital (I seriously almost had her in the car), partly because we had to wait 20 min for my mother in law to show up from SIX BLOCKS away to…

Happy Saturday! We’ve been de-cluttering our house to prepare for a possible move across the country (depending on a job interview) and because it’s too damn cold to do anything else. Anyone else cleaning house? Any tips? We’ve been using a very toned down version Marie Kondo’s approach (never read the book, we folded…

Everything is horrible and I would rather comment on my hatred of 45 but holy shit — this Ed Buck story on The Advocate! All signs point to scumbag. And, if scumbag he proves to be, I hope justice is swift and merciless.

This is basic conservative failed morals. They have no empathy and no sense of self that isn’t rooted in self-interest. Listen assholes: We don’t care for people based on their worthiness. We care for people based on our worthiness. And I’m a fucking atheist. You pricks.

Perfect! That design on top of the loaves- I want my hair to do that!

What’s everyone cooking/baking? I used to make a lot of bread, it was my hobby, but for whatever reason it really fell off last year. This is my first bread of the year, sesame semolina. Although I had less sesame seeds than I thought, so it’s half sesame, half millet.

Huh?

Fureal. That statement was very telling.

He’ll be needing that straw now.

“I couldn’t control you,”