Self-sufficiency
From an article in the New York Times called “The Boys Are Not All Right“: Too many boys are trapped in the same suffocating, outdated model of masc...
Category: Life
As we leave 2017
One lesson all of us should learn ahead of this Christmas given everything that’s happened politically in 2017 and also 2016: RIGHTS limit how the governm...
Buying used
Recently I saw this on Cracked.com in a collection of “Ways You Can’t Stop Wasting Money, in Three Steps“: And it’s relatively easy to l...
Customer service
Article: Owner Tired Of Rude Customers Puts Up Genius Bar Sign To Teach Them A Lesson, And It Works Instantly The idea of customer service is, in general, satis...
Let’s talk about 2016
So I’m not allowed to talk about my two nephews being born, the new better job I started at the start of the year, delivering a computer project to a frie...
Smokers can never be considerate
Let’s see, where to begin — and this is coming from someone who grew up around a smoker that quit 20 years ago this coming January: 1. The root word...
Helping the poor
I’m often baffled at the amount of fake advocacy that happens online. Slactivism is what it’s largely been called. One thing that plenty of people h...
Violence as speech
A disturbing trend has taken root in the United States and much of the Western world. And it is the redefinition of speech by certain individuals perceived to b...
What the hell, Amazon?
Something must seriously be wrong at Amazon. In the past few months, I’ve had several orders screwed up, but the most recent one takes the cake. By far. R...
Yes, having it all does suck
Over on Medium.com, Amy Westervelt wrote a very compelling article on being a working, middle-class mother in this modern day and age called “Having it al...