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I bought a sourdough starter last year because the internet told me hobbies were the cure for existential dread. Three weeks later, it died in my fridge, unloved
I have spent approximately eleven thousand dollars learning how to appear as though I haven't tried at all. This is the math of modern femininity: a skincare routine tha
I am lying on a yoga mat that cost more than my first car, trying to remember how to breathe. The instructor's voice is telling me to
The internet promised that waking up at 5am would change my life. They were right, but not in the way they meant.
Some Christians argue that atheists, not believing in God and by extension Jesus, should work on Christmas Day and not celebrate it. They also ask why we would call Christmas, Christmas.
I was eating a dish at a restaurant and the waiter told me not to, he informed me that they have food on their menu. The reason I was at the restaurant was to investigate their chairs.
You wouldn't cross Cupid outta Valentine Or pumpkins from Halloween either Nor would you break a child's heart By cutting the bunny outta Easter. So why then do you chose to write Christmas with an...
As an atheist why should I celebrate the birth of Christ. Is Christmas for Christians or some spiritual heist. If I sent you Yuletide greetings, would you think me a fool.
Hello again, and to day is Sunday, September 30, 2012. Today I'd like to talk about languages while speaking a language. Quite meta isn't it.
Just had a very enlightening refs period in the nick sat with a few of our community support officers.
In half an hour, the opening ceremony of the London Olympics 2012 begins. I must admit I am rather excited.
This is one I wrote for jubilee. It is highlighting what jubilee should be about. Look it up. You can read more about in Leviticus. 25:10 to 25:15, or ignore it as I know some might.
In our house we have this book of Buddhist proverbs, with a new one for each day. Today's proverb was "Don't judge a horse by its saddle," and I found myself wondering what the fuck that meant.
John Cleese Letter to USA To the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice...
Доброй Ночи . Анюта ) Говорят, что плохие впечатления становятся хорошими воспоминаниями. Это безусловно так, но до определенного момента.
Photography: art that holds a memory. From the instant I got my first little compact camera - I thought it was the best camera in the world - I was in love with how the lens created so much beauty.