2024 federal budgets:
National Parks: $3.8 billion
Center for Disease Control: $11.58 billion
National Institute of Health: $47 billion
Department of Education: $268 billion
Department of Defense $841 billion

My kid has strep throat. We are treating with antibiotics, as one does. BEFORE this treatment was available, something as common as strep throat had a 10-15% mortality rate.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that if an author has a deadline, a crisis must therein occur.

Hypothesis #2: a solid percentage of the low-mediocre romantic comedies produced right now could be solidly mediocre with better soundtracks.

Hypothesis: the decrease in high quality romantic comedy film production over the last fifteen directly correlates with the decrease in women’s rights (and general respect for women).

Agree or disagree?

You know you’re a millennial when it’s literally everything you can do not to sing along with the doctor’s waiting room version of “Say my Name” by Destiny’s Child.

The kids from School of Rock getting married is the news I needed to hear today.

Coffee shops needing to offer soy milk as a plant based alternative is the hill I might die on.

And don’t come at me about the environmental impacts. You serve coffee and dairy. That leg is gone, sir.

We've named mansplaining and manspreading, but what is the name for the way men in cafes think it's appropriate to hold conference calls inside while everyone else working there does so quietly and takes calls outside?

Mancalling? Manchatting? Manconferencing?

Me: so glad 2024 is almost over. Nothing more can can happen now.

Universe (cracks knuckles): one giant kidney stone, coming right up.

This is happening…

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About me:

I'm a recovering academic, parent-in-progress, and PNW/East hybrid who has been publishing rollercoaster romance series about smart, messy characters since 2017.

Favorite trope: black cat/golden retriever
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I have two major deadlines right now, so of course I need to browse quaint Vermont real estate listings.