There’s a certain kind of truth that only emerges when you’re sitting on the dog couch. Not your couch, mind you. The dog couch. You know the one. The fur-dusted, sun-warmed, slightly lopsided because a 10-pound dictator dachshund has claimed it as sovereign territory. That one. It’s in […]
You ever wake up on a Monday and just know in the pit of your stomach, the ache in your knees, the existential sigh before your first cup of coffee—that the week ahead is going to be long? Like…crawling-through-wet-cement long? That was me this week. Before I even […]
Ah, Monday. That day of the week that creeps in like a clogged toilet you hoped would magically fix itself overnight. Every week, without fail, Monday rears its grimy head and reminds you: The pipes are jammed. Again.Not just the ones in the kitchen sink but the ones […]
Well, I finally did it. I caved and watched Inventing Anna, the Netflix miniseries about the fake German heiress who scammed New York’s social elite, financial institutions, and a few unfortunate souls trying to pay their rent. It’s one of those shows I sidestepped for years, like a […]
Every household has its own mythology. In mine, the living room has been invaded by a towering, tail-wagging creature I affectionately call “Godzilla.” Weighing in at 70 pounds of pure joy and oblivious chaos, my big dog believes, without a shadow of a doubt, that he is a […]
I have what some might call a steel trap memory. Conversations from three years ago? Check. The smell of the exact street taco I had during a 2010 trip to San Antonio? Double check. The emotional cadence of a hallway conversation in a hospital wing I visited once? […]
Let’s get one thing straight: a horse isn’t climbing a tree anytime soon. Not today, not tomorrow, not even if you bribe it with organic apples and serenade it with Taylor Swift’s latest album. A horse is built to gallop across fields, not swing from branches like a […]
I recently stumbled across a quote I had scribbled down at some point in my life, buried in a note, between grocery lists and half-baked blog titles: “A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”— Zig Ziglar Wait, what? I blinked. Then blinked […]
Apparently, in Norway, not only are the fjords majestic, but the citizens also possess superpowers like the ability to sleep through a 500-foot container ship crash-landing on their front lawn. Yes, Johan Helberg of Byneset woke up not because of the world’s loudest alarm clock, but because a […]
Ah, May. The month of tulips, Taurus birthdays, and apparently, baboons with boundary issues. As I sip my antihistamine-laced tea and contemplate the existential dread of summer speeding toward us, I can’t help but marvel at the bizarre happenings around the globe. Let’s dive into some of madness. […]
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