My birthday is coming up and the craziest thing has been happening: I’ve been telling people I’m turning a year older than I am actually turning. Either it’s the old age, or the fact that my husband just turned that age (he’s a year older than me). But I’ve been doing it. The fact is:…
Tag: ethics
How Many Relationships Have You Lost Over the Syrian Refugee Crisis?
It isn’t every day that you think you’d be asking yourself, or others, that. And yet today, I find myself wondering just how many people I can no longer look in the face, speak to at a party, or read about in a Christmas letter or a Facebook post anymore. It’s a lot. The Syrian…
I Just Don’t Care Anymore
Nope. I just don’t. I just don’t care anymore. I don’t give a fig. For far too long, I’ve cared far too much. I’ve worried about what people thought of how I was dressed. I agonized over how people considered my hair, my make up, my outfits, the way my ass looked in those pants….
Ways I Quietly Judge My New Mom Friends
Sad news for me, because I am sure if any of my new mom friends read this blog post (which I am sure most of them will not – they are too busy uploading 7,000 photographs of their new babies taking a crap – see #2, appropriately numbered…); well, I am sure if any of…
STFU Fridays: All Hail Herr Nietzsche
For those of you that haven’t caught on yet, I went to graduate school in philosophy. Yes, I am one of those people. I think a lot. By a lot I mean all the time. I took a little too much to heart the lesson in humility from Socrates, though, so I really do believe…
A Few Open Letters From My Day…
Yeesh, what a day! This may be Hump Day, but for me it was “Fuck Heather’s Brain Until It Bleeds”-Day. I have a few open letters to write from my day. Shall we begin? An Open Letter to the lady at Natural Cafe FUCK YOU. I heard you standing in line behind me, having a…
When Does God Say to Go F*** Yourself?
Today I was talking with someone over a friend’s posting on Facebook about the Duggar family, who has made the news again after announcing the pregnancy of their twentieth child. Without going into all of the details of the discussion (which I will blog on at a later time, the Duggar family that is), in…
The Five Types of Interruptors
Time for another Pet Peeve … this one is really high up on my list, I would say about #3. This Pet Peeve, though, is a real blood pressure buster for me. It’s nothing compared to the “space between exclamatory sentence and exclamation point”-thing; and gossipers ‘aint got nothing on it either. What could be…
In a dog eat dog world, which one are you?
In 2007, I finished college (for the first time) with a bachelor degree in Political Science. Being idealistic and young, I immediately signed up for the first job I could close to the heartbeat of local politics. Working as a community organizer for a local non-profit, I soon found myself in the midst of all-things…
