Fellow blogger, BitterballenBruid, has written a few posts about how she is childfree and plans on staying that way and how, very often, this makes people lose their minds. I used to be much more sympathetic to her plight. I used to get those comments all the time. Then, at 29, I got divorced. And … [Read more…]
A few weeks ago, on OTM, host Bob Garfield interviewed Tom Teves, father of one of the Auora, movie theater shooting victims, about reporting mass shooting events, in light of yet another mass shooting at a school in Oregon. Following the death of his son, Teves started an initiative called No Notoriety which wants to … [Read more…]
A few weeks ago, I took a weekend trip to Madrid. It was packed with lots and lots of tapas, plenty of wine, two museums, untold plazas, at least two ice cream cones and one trip to Starbucks. Something I’ve been pretty roundly mocked for. I was defending the existence of Starbucks in Italy last … [Read more…]
Listening to a recent Lexicon Valley podcast, triggered a memory about how, as a kid, I was chastised for swearing. I was probably around 13 or 14 years old and had used, as teenagers often do, a word that some adult authority figure in my life thought was inappropriate. Their response was that swear words … [Read more…]
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