Venmo, Zelle, and Stripe walked into a bar. Hey boys, I said.
Word on the street is, you can earn actual money on Substack, the online writing [...]
It’s your party, you can die if you want to
We rename things now. Here in godless Portland, a person could buy a house at [...]
Not a hard decision
I was reimagining the front yard of the rental next door. It would be a [...]
Do these recessive genes make my ass look white?
Thirty years ago, if you’d told me to spit into a tube, I would have [...]
And then all we need flamer retardant
A lot of complicated issues can be solved by one man with an uncluttered mind, [...]
Getting ahead
Scientists have finally figured out what the Arthropleura’s head looks like, and I say it’s [...]
Net Worth
On the one hand, we are taught that we are all God’s children and everyone [...]
Your Menopause Journey
According to my local Walgreens, October was Menopause Awareness Month, and I have no reason [...]
The curse of cursive
It’s a little sad when, instead of learning a new language or an instrument, I’m [...]
Eeking out another blog post
Might as well know this about me. I don’t think death is the worst thing. [...]
Rats! Rats!
Faithful readers will recall I can ignore bad news for a very long time. Such [...]
Jules for Christmas
My friend Julie Zickefoose found some fur on the ground the other day, and in [...]
Oregon is down on beavers
I was startled to learn the other day that the state of Oregon classified beavers [...]
The vertebrally challenged
I haven’t checked in on the news for a while. There is too great a [...]
What goes into rabbit holes?
My recent recent excursion into the world of the earwig led, predictably, to the barnacle, [...]