You’re telling me a man made this disaster

It’s maddening. He had great energy and generalized info in a fun way but some types of LPC are specifically drawn to be social media influencer/content creators. I get that reels an TikTok are the cotton candy of therapy in little clips but some of that stuff does big damage.

I just unfollowed him today.

My new personality is shitposting, but to your face.

I need to take the next off ramp from the high road.

We do not speak ill of the living nearly enough.

A $10 fee to answer a dm would definitely take some trash out.

I found travel size duct tape! I took it with me when I spent a few months in Spain/Portugal/Morocco, pure MacGyver energy.

Privacy.
Also a respectful fear of the Bermuda Triangle.

I really hope the term 'MacGyvered' doesn’t die with my generation.

I have a bandanna, some chewing gum and a tin can. Let’s fix this helicopter.

Something broke in our collective this last few weeks. I am a survivor too, and every woman in my group of friends (over decades) has experienced coercive sexual aggression against their consent and/or sexual violence from men.

We do NOT speak ill of the dead nearly enough. I encourage the dead to come for me. Or take it up with management.

I mean, she married him at 15. He was 22 if I remember right. He was stupid and mean. He deserved a letter from beyond the grave.

Are you ok babe? You haven’t touched your embarrassment of being slapped back to your mom’s uterus.

He soon got scammed by a very pretty young woman and flew to Africa to marry her like he’d acquired a “traditional” passport bro wife.

Nah she took all his money.
What a baddie, getting her bag and the last word.

Some men’s lives defined by a woman getting the last word.

When my mom’s bff died, we found a massive fuck off letter to her husband taped to the underside of her nightstand drawer.

Like a full scathing indictment of how death was preferable to another moment in his presence.

For her era, that was a baddie getting the last word.

midlife by Claire Taylor I wish I could go back hold that girl in my arms & tell her sing your off-key songs the world is deaf to the pleasures of women no one's listening anyway

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One of the local dispensaries advertises a “buy an ounce, get an ounce free” bogo for 420. Oregon is a magic land where folks just hand out weed and kiss you on the forehead and tell you how pretty you are.

Don’t move here we can’t afford housing.

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

That’s the exact villain inspo I needed for Monday

Tired: Corporations are people
Wired: Oil barrels are cruise passengers

I just wish we had a president who could contradict himself ten times in one sentence. Seven seems mid.

My reaction to ANY “akshewally” on this topic is to be an unpredictably unsafe person to say “akshewally” to.

I chose the bear.

My best guy friend of 34 years called. He’d not heard about R*pe Academy.

[Ed: I use r*pe to avoid censorship. I do not use “grape” as it is cutesy and increases my urges of face-punching]

I want to spend a spring day filling my pockets with sea glass, shells and pretty rocks before walking into the sea

this is very much not a new phenomenon, nor does it have much of anything to do with 'modern dating'

Etsy has been breaking my heart for years - I’ve had a store placeholder for over a decade and now that I have a reason to use it, it is near impossible to make money doing it. So I’m looking at other platforms.

It will break me if I ever have to leave Portland.