It's been a couple years since I've done one of these. but sue me, I was feeling nostalgic for these annual posts I used to do. You see,...

One of the first ways people usually describe me is that I'm "not a follower". I tend to view rules and instructions as useful...

Anyone who's on Twitter has probably encountered the account Dog Rates . It has over 9 million followers and most of the tweets look like...

"Wait a minute," you, a reasonable person, might say, "this doesn't look like a 2020 roundup. Isn't it, like, February? Don't you owe us...

Time - what is it, really? Where does it go? What does it mean? If I'm supposed to get this plus three other posts done the next two days...

If you've ever had a man you've loved and tried to shop for, you know one thing: gift guides for men are bad. I'm not sure WHY they're so...

It feels a bit gauche to admit, because it was such a bad year for humanity as a whole, but I had a truly lovely 2019. Pretty much every...

Welcome to post-Christmas but pre-New Year, the time where about 50% of us have to go to work in spite of no work being done, and for a...

The biggest change for me in 2019 (besides having a fancy new website, obviously) is that I'm a librarian now! I've been working as a...

Way back in Ye Olde Yesteryear of... like two years ago, I didn't have a site, I had a Wordpress blog. On that Wordpress blog, the very...

2018 has been a weird year. I’m not talking geopolitically for the world at large (though I could be talking geopolitically for the world...

Everyone, I have an exciting announcement: I’ve fallen in love. Not with an actual person,  don’t be silly. That would require a human...

Don’t look at me like that. I know it’s too late. Do you think I wanted to be finding a proctor for my stats final and then taking it...

I’m going to start by saying this – you have every right to be mad at me. Here I was promising you so many holiday gift ideas, and then...

You have that person in your life. You know the one – you love them and they’re great until it’s their birthday, or the holidays, or your...

Holy shit, you’ve been matched with someone on a dating app! Or maybe it’s a dating site. Maybe you’re using a site that doesn’t have the...