As are all social media apps. I am a social media addict. I watch stupid cat videos, rage with others about the state of America, follow recipes I’ll never make (my cooking is a hazard), and watch tons of those AITA videos. It’s either a good time or a long descent into madness and despair. […]
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Do you know anything about the World Health Organization, lovingly known as the WHO? Maybe you’re the kind of person who should know a thing or two about what they do. *cough cough* before nuking our relationship with them. Or maybe you already know that they’ve done some pretty important and critically life saving things
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For the first 36 years of my life, I was a dog person. I’d never owned or spent any significant time with cats. They seemed a little standoffish, if I’m being honest. I like the validation my puppies give me as I walk in the door. Sure, it’s a little bit needy and over the
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Read Part 1 here. The second half of Sheri Franke’s book, The House of My Mother, is both more intense and more personal than the first. It is during this section where we witness the downfall of her mother, Ruby, as the authorities finally take action against her abuses and bring charges against Ruby for
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It is 6:55 am. Your alarm rings and as you swipe away the inexplicable multitude of notifications that arrived overnight, you notice a text from the school district. There’s a 2-hour delay. Not so bad, you think, stopping your alarm and getting to sleep in a whole extra 30 minutes before work. 7:45 am. Did
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Sheri Franke’s book, The House of My Mother, released this past Tuesday, and it details her experience as the child of a family vlogger. I put it as an add-in book with my Book of the Month selection, expecting it to be both distressing and enlightening. I’ve seen videos of Sheri, now an advocate for
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Christmas shopping is an unmitigated nightmare. People have died. I’m not great with crowds under the best of circumstances, but a box-shaped maze full of this year’s must-have items and 700 of your neighbors still coming down from a combo of too much turkey and too much alcohol is a bridge too far. A tension
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Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday of November. But that can be all over the place in terms of the actual date of November. In this chaotic and vaguely apocalyptic year of our Lord 2024, it is on the twenty-freaking-eighth. By the time we finish ungodly amounts of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the green
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I’ve been missing a lot these last few weeks. My Instagram has been all but empty, and I started several articles, mostly about my general dissatisfaction with Christmas storming in like an elephant on meth before the Halloween wrappers were even cleaned up but posted none. Honestly, my creative brain was fully tapped out. It
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