Ive been gone a week. My mom had semi emergency heart surgery and I drove 1200 miles to get there before they got her in. She had 1 fully blocked artery and 2 at over 70% and they found out on ...

Be a child: feral, authentic, no concept of society. Be a child in society: meet rejection, fear, misunderstanding, evil people. Get wrecked. Bury the child. Become a good citizen: embrace ...

An Editorial, and if Bari Weiss was as “fearless” as she thinks she is, she’d publish this. Come on, Bari; just like Sara Bareilles, I wanna see you be BRAVE. I am a second-generation Italian-A...

 Dear God, I cried again today. I read the comments people left for me on this platform, and my heart felt so full. I am so sensitive, and knowing that people truly care touches me more deep...

After seeing grocery prices at the store I have realized meat has now became a luxury item. It makes me sad how prices steadily go up but the minimum wage does not. People are now having to pay ...

“hey…” “hey babe” “where have you been?’ “right in front of you this whole time.” “I didn’t see you.” “yeah, it’s ‘cause you don’t want to.” She smiled a smile that cut through his pain...

Mental illness isn’t funny. It’d be cruel to say it is. But it’d also be a lie to say its manifestations, if taken out-of-context, aren’t sometimes as hilarious as they are in-context tragic and...

I like the rain. Today, while I was driving to school, it was raining pretty heavily. I had to turn my windshield wipers on high. I think the rain brings the worst out of people. I saw two peopl...

Every month, one of the adult French camp teachers hosts a free online French chat, and I logged into this one. There was one other student along with the teacher. I sort of remember the other s...

In spite of everything, my life is good. I have awesome friends, a dream fiancé, a beautiful apartment, my daughter is stable and happy in Seattle… I had a very good therapy session today, and o...

Our guest quarters are self-contained, with a small efficiency kitchen and an independent entrance.  I buy the plates, cups, wineglasses, etc. for the guest quarters from IKEA.  They are inexpen...

How I got my account reinstated on X for inauthentic behavior

I'm there again you know that place that one where you don't know what you feel or how you feel your mind just blank goes speak when you get spoken to smile so look you don't look rude ughhh.  ...

Gloria thinks that she's narrowed it down to two of the security guards in the office, both of whom are young and have some measure of a beard.  Guys of course, although I think it'd be cool as ...

I feel like things are finally getting back to some sort of regular routine. After weeks of snow days and such. I haven’t really focused on my long “to do lists” as I basically spent the entire...