Thank you so much for writing this. I’m sure you’ll get flak for it, but it was exactly what I needed to read right now.

If you’re driving, you don’t have much freedom. Autonomous vehicles will help with that, but in the meantime, drivers probably should not use their “pockets of freedom” to paint or write the next great romance novel. Audiobooks are great, but you still have to watch out for that asshole in front of you. I do not feel…

For her birthday last year, I got my girlfriend a Cuddle Clone of her childhood dog. It now lives next to her bed most nights, and at least once a day she’ll look over at it and smile. The company did a wonderful job with making it, and it was absolutely worth the cost for the joy it has brought her.