things i learned from dad: join a labor union to protect yourself, keep a louisville slugger baseball bat by the front door to protect yourself and your pets, go to the beach as often as you can afford to and sometimes when you can't, grow as much of your own food as possible, and if there's a ring around the moon at night it's going to rain the ( Read more... )

I describe my emotional/mental/social state thusly: I feel like the little metal ball in a pinball machine, with a bunch of things whacking into me at odd off-kilter angles and me having no control what directions I am pushed in. Sarah Massoud puts it more simply: "Are you in a funk ( Read more... )