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Last night, my 4.5 year-old daughter was feeling a little nervous. She found out about death, recently, and has put together the fact that her dad and I will some

taking food to people: a thread it's been a tough year. on top of all the disasters that happen in the ordinary course of life — a baby arriving unexpectedly

crisis in the household as a close family member over the age of 40 reveals she believes that beavers *eat* wood "well if they're not eating it why are they

ah, well. Matt and I went to a huge high school in North Texas, where he played football (wide receiver) and i was (am) a loser. he was a little

this sucks. if you're going to do new renditions of classical antiquity, don't try to make it look like thundercats with a laurel. make it look surreal and disorientinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JAQh544RHE what

i do not care about people being mad at me on twitter. it's sillyhttps://twitter.com/ren9091/status/1308964359935320064 i should write it up eventually but in short my twitter manifesto is: this is a

[while laying in bed, sharing a bag of marshmallows, watching magic schoolbus]me: do you want to go to outer space like that?4 y/o: no. maybe later.me: i think i would

i mean it depends on the defense, right? the 'defense' here was: "this person was 12 years old at the time of wrongdoing and has expressed remorse." whether the age

as for kanye, i reiterate my concern that one of the gaps in modern etiquette is that while we can now present ourselves to enormous audiences of strangers instantly, we

when you have a good argument ("elegiac artwork celebrating the greatest existential threat the US has ever faced is bad") people who disagree will try to force you into having

anyway: i love my job. there are difficulties and frustrations as with any job, but what i love most about my job is that it gives me the opportunity to

[late night sincere chat] i think he tended to internalize scary things on the news, and that he did that partially bc of personality but also because he felt, like