Recently on Twitter there was yet ANOTHER discourse about minding childfree people's business. This time (in a since-deleted tweet), someone claimed people in their forties (like myself) are/will be lonely because we didn't have kids in our twenties…
So there's a BIG childfree movement happening on Twitter, and I am HERE for it. More and more people aren't having kids. The "why" in my opinion is irrelevant, but there are folks who make it THEIR BUSINESS…
Howdy do, welcome back to my blog, coming to you live from my brain! So, let me start today's episode with with a fun fact about yours truly. Which is? I'm a GIANT video game nerd, with a…
Greetings and salutations!! It's your old pal Meredith Silverman here with yet another unpopular opinion that I'd LOVE to share with the public at large: HONEYMOON FUNDS ARE TACKY. There. I said it. Actually, I feel like ANY…
Unless you're this cat. Then, you are excused. Greetings and Salutations, fellow humans! I know-I know, it's been awhile, but this dumpster fire of a world does not creativity make. HOWEVER, I'm annoyed, and we ALL know that…
In this essay, I will relate the aftermath of a particularly severe autistic meltdown, how it affected my emotional and mental health, and then how my body physically reflected my mental and emotional state. To wit, my body…
Using correct, preferred pronouns can be like learning a new language. If you pick it up when you're young, it's easy and natural. But if you've learned the wrong rules for decades, it can be a lot of…
Seriously hotel toilets, we need a word. Actually, I have a bone to pick with hotel toilets AND rest-stop toilets. Not to mention the CRAPPY (pun intended-ha ha), toilet paper that they offer to unsuspecting undercarriages! So sit…
Do you like wasting time? No? How do you feel about wasting money? Don't like that either? Then settle in and read on. I'm about to tell you why I'll NEVER shop at Lowe's hardware store again. And…
The "fuck your feelings" crowd is sure fond of spouting "the law", aren't they? For example, go ask someone to turn down their unbearably loud music, and they'll parrot "the law" at you. Or at least, what they…
I read a LOT as a kid. And one of my FAVORITE books to read over and over was Grimm's Fairy Tales. Many of the stories stuck with me, but the one that stuck the most was "Eve's…
Admittedly, this was a hard blog to write. And I sat on it for a few days. But I need to say this. So I've been going through kind of a journey of self discovery lately. I've been…