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I wrote a book about being the kind of working class where you work shit jobs with no hope for years at unlivable wages. It won awards. Now I’m a

Ah, greyhound. The whole of humanity on display making fifty people even later In today’s drama we have: a woman who has been complaining loudly about every damn thing was

Uh, so, older millennials reached adulthood around 9/11You know, starting in the year 2000. That’s why we’re called millennials. I was on my second marriage by 2008.What child and/or Boomer

Okay. Time for the thanksgiving from hell, in which I regret everything It started here Next up: me realizing I don’t have close to enough casserole dishes and am gonna

My kids still ask why they can’t talk to their grandparents and I tell them “well, it’s because they couldn’t stop being racist even in front of you”Seriously fuck this

I don’t think I’ve ever explained publicly So once I was supervising a bath with my sweet 4 year oldShe said “I like to be clean because white people are

Anyway I did need to tend to the fundraising and promised I’d do it today, and I’m in central so I still have half an hour over here Upshot is

So we have temporarily commandeered our own tv to watch the debateI’m explaining to my kid why she can’t watch trolls world tour today and holy shit, my worldview translated

Folks, I lost an eye during a pandemic because I believe so strongly in protest and the importance of accurate media coverage of it.It is vanishingly unlikely that any talking

Honestly as long as I’m talking about the porn store though, which I don’t do often because client privacy is paramount and so I don’t often talk about it, let

So I live with a jarhead, have had two kids with this marineHe is 100% losing his shit over here, turns out the commander in chief can’t insult the corps

So I get a call from a blocked numberIt is my kid’s second grade teacher! Turns out my kid thinks she’s too good for school and has apparently been logged