The balance: Be an expert when you are. Ask questions when you’re not. Present what you want want the most important people on your life to see in you.

Sounds simple enough! 🙃

If we continue to do this as adults, best case is we make a problematic person feel better about themselves that day. Worst case, we look like we either don’t know things and aren’t as valuable, or we’re pretending not to just because we’re lazy.

Then the older you get, the less cool it is and boys don’t like you, so you pretend. Then when you grow up, you might have work situations where you learn to stifle good ideas because they’re not understood or appreciated.

This goes back to being in the “advanced” group in elementary school. Always having an answer and constantly raising your hand, and being so relied upon by teachers and peers to answer the question or take the lead on group work that you start to pretend you don’t know things.

At work, it could be seen as incompetence or complete cluelessness to what’s going on. At home, I’m displaying to my daughter that I think I’m stupid and others should, too.

Probably a few times a week, I catch myself saying or almost saying something along these lines, as I’m not informed about something that I definitely am. Or pointing out something in my age, background or life that perceivably makes my perspective less valuable.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ladies (and some men, for sure), we need to stop being intentionally self deprecating because our competence has been seen as threatening in more toxic past situations.

Sometimes I’ll see what’s in the person’s cart in front of me at the grocery checkout and ask if I can come over for dinner because they have great stuff. On an unrelated note, sometimes the people in front of me at the grocery checkout give me weird looks.

Confession: I never once saw whatever you’re supposed to see in those Magic Eye pictures.

The protest was peaceful. The community was not. This was never about a walkout. This should be a story about kids organizing a protest. This should have been a First Amendment story. Or a school safety story. This could have been about students who are passionate about immigratio...

“…is there not something to be valued in a group of teenagers who are so deeply invested in a cause that they will go against the majority to support it?” trojaneer.com/13076/opinio...

TikTak: Same as TikTok except you can only do dances that burn exactly 1.5 calories.

It’s astounding to think of how many time I have risked my life to drive to work in weather like this. Sometimes to do work I could have done from home. Other times because not going meant not paying bills.

@nbcsnl.bsky.social, give Jane Wickline more to do.

I’ve taken somewhat of a natural hiatus from social media due to toxic overload and other factors. Now might not be a great time to pick up again, but I’m slowly easing back into dropping more unapologetic hot takes. My next post will be one of those.

Update: Now it’s shifted to security cam of pets saving babies from earthquakes and sometimes bears?

Facebook really thinks I’m interested in zit popping videos with, for some reason, coffee-themed graphics in the background and a soundtrack of birds chirping. To be fair, I’m not NOT interested…

Social life in your 40s is just clicking “interested” on a bunch of events on Facebook that friends I haven’t seen in years also click “interested” on, but none of us actually go. We just know what interests whom and we can go “yeah that seems like Sarah’s thing,” because they’re all named Sarah.

So many hours wasted playing MASH and I still don’t have a mansion or a limo and I’m not married to Elijah Wood

Usually when there’s a hook on the back of a bathroom door it’s either a guy with a long nose or a boxing octopus.

Always make sure the cat has a full charge.

Young people today: TikTok trends.
Us as young people: Bohemian Rhapsody in the car.

I haven’t been socialing much lately. It just doesn’t seem that important. But I just came to say I have Bloody Sunday stuck in my head, but specifically the George W. Bush version.

Pro tip: If you don’t have or can’t find a back scratcher, try the bottom of a toothpaste tube.

If I’m willing to watch an ad rather than pay a few bucks for extra Candy Crush lives… does it really make sense that said ad is for a Lexus?

Thanks, Facebook, for reminding me that this angel is now missing in my life! 😭

Facebook: A list of people who are dying of horrible diseases or have information that someone I know died.
Twitter: A list of national brands being super weird.
Instagram: A list of people selling things I don’t want.
Nextdoor: A list of walk-in shower ads.
Bluesky: Oh crap, am I old?

There’s so much I could be using my brain for right now, perhaps to better the world. Instead, I’m staring at the ceiling and singing the “Gator Golf” jingle.

Put some mustard on that slaw dog. Here's what happened at the first Oscar Mayer Wienie 500 Now we know who's top dog of all the Wienermobiles.

Always good to get paid to pun. www.indystar.com/story/entert...

Does anyone else remember when birth control only came in pink compacts? Because if you don’t want to make babies, SOMETHING overtly feminine HAD to be thrust upon you!

I’m sore because I moved three boxes to the garage yesterday without stretching. Enjoy your 40s, kids!