The foreign woman, covered in gold jewelry and wearing combat-green, chewed the equivalent of one tiny gumball’s worth of gum in her mouth. And yet, she insisted on trying to blow bubbles. I’m not sure where she thought the extra gummy material would appear from to accommodate her effort. Each and every time, her tongue [...]

Way more interesting than even I knew it was going to be is my interview with Julie Jackson aka Sparky. I had no idea when I started it that she was the same person responsible for Subversive Cross Stitch, another idea that makes me giggle.
Excerpt:
My parents are in one of the later frames of the [...]

The other day, I read this list from Andrew Phelps regarding how to be happier.
By gum, I think it just might be relevant.
Especially #2 & #3, which in my case go together.

You know when you are a million months pregnant and the baby doesn’t come out and the baby doesn’t come out and you CAN’T WAIT to get the baby out of your body but you are SO SCARED also about what that will mean to you and your life?
That’s how I’m feeling about moving close [...]