Because men don’t see the emotional work. Women are socialized from birth to recognize and respond to it. Men are not. The effort to bring men up to speed is exhausting. You talk and talk and talk until you’re blue in the face, hoping for one *aha* moment, and when it happens, they expect a freaking trophy because…

The finding stuff around the house is right up there on my list of pet-peeves.

I made a vegan Sweet potato bourbon bisque with chickpea “croutons”.

MARK I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THAT THE LADY THEY BURIED WAS SOMEHOW ALIVE UNDERGROUND FOR FORTY FUCKING YEARS

That land was a former toxic dump site. I worked as the lab director at an environmental chemistry lab and I personally went to the field to test grounds that had previously been used to dump toxic waste. The billion dollars that paid for this would have come from the private business that did the dumping. The very…

I personally would rather see that money spent on environmental conservation than on a jet designed to turn that same patch of nowhere into a burning hellscape. There’s a lot of messed up priorities in the world.

Also, the first time I read Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” quote superimposed over the actual picture of Earth from Voyager...

You already know. Superman ‘78 is the greatest sense of Wonder I’ve ever experienced at the movies. Makes me wanna cry a little just thinkin bout it. In the theater, “Mall Cinema 1 or 2”, every weekend, for maybe 3 months. That’s how little EL34 lost most his baby fat; saving his lunch money to see Superman every…

The opening titles are enough to make me choke up. Astonishing.

Being at an almost deserted Pompeii waaaaaay out in the ruins when it was misting and foggy. And then happening upon the Colosseum there. It was really something to think about the history and mythology and architecture I was standing on top of. And also being able to enjoy it at my leisure without anyone else around.

Agreed. I was 8 and we were camping on the Oregon coast. A windstorm knocked out all power in the area and my parents were worried our big blue canvas tent would collapse so they woke us up and we moved to our car. I’ve never seen so many stars or felt so small.

In life, the minutes after each of my sons were born. One of the few times I have just openly wept in my lifetime.

I wouldn’t say it’s the most I ever felt but I recently went to luminous lagoon in Jamaica where the water actually glows blue due to microbes in it. I went swimming in there and afterwards my shorts “sparked”. It’s pretty amazing how alien and beautiful nature is on our own planet.