What Didn't Kill Me

Going to church all the time wouldn’t have been so bad had it not been for the dreaded...   …church clothes. Up until I was a grown-ass adul...

Sunday School.  I'm sure you're familiar. It's the hour-ish before or after church where, as a child, you get a kid-friendly dos...

 "Ope" has been having a moment. For the unfamiliar (re: non-Midwesterners), "ope" is a polite interjection, akin to ...

I'm the perfect parent. In my head. Ten years ago. Before I had kids. We all are, though, aren't we? That child over there, crying a...

  You know when you're a kid, you have an outfit or two that you wore to death because you love it SO MUCH and you think you look SO AMA...

In September 2023, the library got a new boiler. "All right!" we said. "Just in time for winter!" "Suckers" sa...

For the last month or so, I have been on a white-hot press-on nail tear. Which is completely unlike me. Up until mid-October, I had never ha...