KitKat

My husband’s beige flag is he ALWAYS refers to his siblings as “my sister (sibling name)” or “my brother (sibling name)”. Even if it’s obvious by the context. Even if we have no other close friends or relatives with the same name. And if I’m talking about one of his siblings, he doesn’t… Read More

When I was talking about how my family and community were coping after a severe natural disaster, and she interrupted to say “I know exactly how you feel, we had to cut our vacation two days short because of that.” It took several more years to completely extract myself from that… Read More

When my husband and I were newly married, I was drinking one of those natural ginger ales in his car, the type in a glass bottle with a pop- off lid. The first sip tasted kind of watered down, so in my head, I thought “if I hold the lid back on, and quickly turn it upside down and… Read More

This would be a better list of the equivalents were actually equivalent…,some of the places look extremely cool, but if you’re going to tell me not to go to Starbucks for coffee in Seattle, then give a recommendation for another cool local coffee place.

My friend has a bit of a reputation as a walking encyclopedia - she knows a lot of random facts and is VERY sure of what she knows, which makes the times she’s spectacularly wrong pretty satisfying. Once, when she was about 20, she spent a good 15 minutes arguing with us about whether… Read More