I have set up a luxurious tents, palapas & hammocks & pool bar retreat along a Caribbean seaside for those who are in the Permanently Tired of Men camp, and who wish to retire in peace. Wear your caftans & turbans and meet me on the deck for sundowners, ladies.

I don’t know the secret for darkening hair without orange, since I am going the opposite way. For me, the secret to lightening it is lightening it a bit, and then toning it with a semi-permanent silver toner. A lot of the toners people talk about online (like Wella T14 or T18) are for toning brassiness out of very…

Hard to say, I know 3D can make the image darker but I also expect by now they’ve figured ways around that (like, I saw TFA and Doctor Strange in both formats and didn’t notice a huge difference in clarity.)

Ok, I have honest advice, being a person who has really struggled with a fear of rejection, mild agoraphobia, social awkwardness, and generalized anxiety, not to mention periods of time when I just couldn’t get a handle on my self-esteem and knew that low confidence oozed off of me.

I just got diagnosed with depression after a long spell of it and for the past year or so, the only thing I wanted to leave my house to do was browse Target and Home Goods on a Friday / Saturday and buy face masks and odds and ends I didn’t necessarily need. Part of my depression was being burned out from work and…

We just came back from vacation and my only wish was to see manatees. These amazing creatures followed us around in kayaks and while in the harbor stalking them, a breeze came up and blew off my favorite sun hat. I tried to get it before it sank but SWEAR a manatee dragged it down below and is now wearing my hat and…

I’m a solo act too. I absolutely hear you—holidays, long weekends, and any other time people associate with family can be hard when you don’t have a partner or kids.

So my husband and i have been having issues..for quite a while, issues that we got married with and only got worse with the stress of parenthood. Anyways, i started seeing a therapist and she asked me to write the pro’s and cons of staying in my marriage.

Well, we’re currently cooling down from a sizzling high of 100 degrees here in Sunny Nebraska.” Wish I was in the Southern Hemisphere right now.

I started cross stitching this week. There was a lot of pre-planning required and trying to understand basic techniques but I’m fairly pleased with my first small design. I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to finish it but in the bigger picture it’s practice for a project I want to do for a local group.

What’s cooking chez vous? I made a cake for my niece’s birthday party tomorrow. It was so damn hot today, I couldn’t do any real decorating, the cake could only be out of the refrigerator for a few minutes before the frosting started getting very soft, but I think it looks festive. Vanilla bean cake with raspberry…

I did it.

I have chosen to believe in Nessie, Bigfoot, Yeti and all other possible creatures.

I have schizo-typical personality disorder. I jokingly call it being a ‘half-ass sociopath’ because the major symptom is a reduced (but existing!) affect, also known as emotional response. According to the doctors I’ve seen I’m highly unusual for being married and having children. Most people like me are loners and…

Speaking as someone with mental illnesses who has mostly chosen to be single partly as a consequence of those illnesses, I have the upmost respect for Davidson.

Big Foot graduates her program next week- there were times when we thought this day would never come. She has absolutely fallen in love with the back part of my property- she has created about 6-8 little path ways back there and she is always back there pulling weeds/thorns and debris. In the process she has found a…

This week I got to help screen bones from a mastodon fossil pit and tonight I’m seeing the band mastodon. I was told this is a Dad joke, but I think it’s pretty damn cool.

By the next SNS, Duckling will be a high school graduate.

Guys, guys, I have my first therapy appointment in two weeks. I’m a therapist myself, so it’s going to be super weird. Mostly it’s going to be weird to be heard, talk without having to ‘fix anything.’ I’ve been incredibly disillusioned with my work and my marriage so I’m excited about going back to the couch.