It had been about a month since I started gathering coffee grounds for compost. I had gone from gas station to gas station, explaining the project and leaving them with buckets to store compostables. After a certain amount of trial and error, I had figured out that the easiest way to carry all those buckets …
One of the hardest parts of living in Colorado Springs is watching people around me being screwed up by abusive religious communities and feeling like there’s nothing I can do to help them. So I made a thing! This is a printable PDF (download here) that can be printed on an 11×17″ sheet of paper …
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Dear Evangelical in my life, You did it again. Maybe it was saying that you prayed that I would feel better when I said that I had a cold. Maybe it was sending me a Christmas card that was mostly Bible quotes (just in case I thought Christmas was a cultural holiday at this point …
It’s important to realize that the you who interacts socially with your friends and family and the you who steps into a voting booth are not separate entities. And if you claim to care about someone in the first context, you need to care about them in the second. You can’t talk about how much …
I just broke down crying in front of the manager of the kennel where Scruffy goes for grooming because she asked how I was. She and I have chatted at least once a week for nearly a year now, and I’d say we’re friends at this point. She’s a deeply kind-hearted person and fairly open-minded …