Dear Bitter Butch: How Do I Cope After the Election?

Dear Bitter Butch, The fallout from this election is causing personal emotions similar to those I felt when the family… Read more Dear Bitter Butch: How Do I Cope After the Election?

My Confession

Posted on May 26, 2016 by haddayr

Youngest demanded that I pretend to chop his head off tonight and I obliged — both because I am the best… Read more My Confession

What I want to do: Sit around on the couch, farting happily, and drinking more cider. What I am going… Read more The Nobility of Motherhood

Éiden just bought himself an ENORMOUS pair of 10-inch tongs for feeding Bearded Dragons. I was lying around in bed… Read more Subject of a Study

KARE 11 reported it incorrectly and now it’s been picked up by the Star Tribune and AP, so even though… Read more The Minneapolis School Board did NOT Vote to approve changes to the autism program last night.

It’s a pretty sweet review! In part: For a collection of writings with an ostensibly narrow focus, the range of… Read more Kirkus Review of LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: THE BOOK

Youngest: (does something loud and maddening again and again and again and again and again) Everyone Else: OH MY GOD… Read more At least they laughed at Einstein

On Wednesday, the Minnesota State High School League’s board of directors will study a proposed policy that would allow transgender… Read more Locals: We Can Do Better. Please send some emails to support trans* students athletes!

Which is over here. It’s funny, true, wonderful. Well, not ENTIRELY true. Because ’embrace the moment’ is never actually good… Read more Comments on ’37 Reasons I’m Having Trouble Embracing The Moment’

Sometimes, I don’t realize how much I hunger to see myself represented until suddenly I’m looking at it. This mom who… Read more Representation