The next question is when does buttermilk go bad? It always smells sour, and I swear a bottle of it can sit in my fridge for months with no discernible difference in flavor or texture.

Something weird happened to my taste buds a few years ago.  I used to hate blue cheese.  The tiniest bit of it made any dish inedible.  Now I love it.  I eat chunks of it on salad and steak, and the bluer the cheese, the better.

Americans are obsessed with blondness and blue eyes. Just look at Hollywood. Most women have brown hair IRL, but they have to have blond hair to be on the screen. My mom, despite having dark hair and eyes was always obsessed with women who had naturally light blond hair.

Among the many, many problems I have with Sanders is the fact that she frames motherhood as practice for work. Motherhood is not training for work anymore than work is training for motherhood. The skills often have very little overlap. Every time I interview someone who has been a SAHM and is returning to the…

I despise those bullshit cairns. They are a blight on the landscape, and they cause confusion when hikers are trying to use them as legitimate navigation devices, which are how legitimate cairns intended.  Some places have even started requesting that if you see them you tear them down.

I grew up near Yellowstone.  Stupid people have been disregarding basic safety in nature since forever.

When I was a kid, I learned the rule that you never pick a flower unless there are at least 2 dozen more just like it in the same place.  It drives me crazy when I see parents let their kids strip every flower from an area.  (I don’t pick them at all, but leave something for the rest of us to look at)

I see so many IG pictures of people doing stupid, life-threatening things in Norway that I am afraid they are going to ban tourists before I get a chance to visit.

It isn’t condescending.  It is that we don’t think we have the emotional fortitude to handle it.  Most of us have no idea how to flirt or read people that we are attracted to anymore.  Most of us weren’t that good in the first place.  Plus, the older you get, the less tolerant you are of bullshit, and dating involves…

Yeah.  I am 45, and visually, guys who are 25-30 are the hottest to me.  Very few men who are 50 really take care of themselves, and most of them have such awful attitudes that I would be surprised if they found anyone who could put up with them long-term.

I am friends with a recently divorced couple who were ten years apart, and that contributed to their divorce.  Ten years is enough that you don’t have the same cultural references or taste in entertainment.  It has a surprising effect on day-to-day life.

Gee, you sound fun.

What about the stop-motion Creature Comforts. Although it survived for two seasons in Britain, the Americanized version was cancelled after only three episodes. I loved that show, but I don’t know anyone else who watched it.

Did we grow up in the same place? Are we the same person? There were aspects of Napoleon Dynamite that were amusing like the grandmother (aka Mac’s Mom) who was into ATV culture or the fact that steak was a staple at every meal, but the movie just didn’t capture my attention.

If you Millennials are going to kill more things, can you make ranch dressing your next murder victim? That shit is disgusting, and Boomers have been trying to force us to eat it our entire lives.

Not quite how I would do it.  I would definitely leave out the tuna, but it must have eggs.  The carrots in her recipe are weird.  I would also add whatever herbs in my garden looked good, which I think is what she might be trying to replicate with that disgusting salad dressing.  But I do think that macaroni salad…

I like macaroni salad and I think that looks disgusting.  I reminds me why I typically get potato salad instead.

I grow tomatoes every year, and the perfect time to pick an heirloom can be tricky, especially if you are dealing with varieties that are green or green striped when ripe. However, a truly ripe tomato will pull cleanly from the stem. If you are planning on eating the tomato right away, look for ones with no stems. So…

Yep. We stopped getting Papa Johns years ago because of Schattner, even though it is one of the few delivery places in our small town.  I have thought about going back since they finally got rid of him, but I wasn’t sure if he was still getting money.

So. Many. Blisters.