Ask yourself this: What was stopping them before? — At first, I thought the news that men are lining up for vasectomies was a good sign. And then I realized the truth. These men could have gotten a vasectomy at any time, but they did not see a need until Roe was overturned. Let’s break this down. As I’ve written before, women already…

Now, nobody can land a job or a date and shopping and news are broken — Originally, this piece was going to compare the difficulties of finding a partner and a job: Single women: I can’t find a good man! Single men: I can’t find a good woman! Employers: I can’t find anybody who wants to work! Unemployed people: I can’t find a job! And then…

They want you bad — until they get what they want — My husband is trying to get some customer service from an audio company he bought a lot of plugins from, and it’s not going well. “There’s no phone number. There’s no email. You will look on their entire website and not find a way to talk to someone,” he fumed. …

It’s not that easy to feel grateful this year — Some of you are having a wonderful day of delicious food shared with people you love. And some of us are not having that holiday this year. There’s nobody around my table because we have the Plague. It’s just my husband and me, our two dogs — and Covid, our uninvited guest who doesn’t seem to want to leave. We…

Your complete instructions for celebrating Thanksgiving alone with Covid — “Have you ever tried spatchcocking?” I asked my friend Berlin, even though I already knew the answer was no. She’s never so much as roasted a chicken; I knew damned well she hadn’t tried any advanced turkey-baking techniques. She thought I was asking her about a kinky sex move. So she was either relieved or disappointed when I explained it was…

Decades later, it got me — Sometimes, you hear a joke and don’t understand it until later. This is the story of a joke I got, but about 40 years later, it got me. It was a gross-out joke. The punchline is not so much funny as disgusting. I can handle poop — I had two…

And why the best American oldies stations are European — I grew up liking Stairway to Heaven but I’m so tired of it now. I expect the Devil’s deejay plays nothing else. “You’re listening to Hell’s Oldies! Now, for the 783,864,913th consecutive time, here’s Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven!” Classic oldies radio stations have a library smaller than your great-great-grandfather’s…

It sounds much worse than it is — I looked off in the distance and squinted. “There’s a rabbit in the alley,” I thought to myself, and I tightened my grip on the leashes to make sure my dogs wouldn’t try to chase it. As I walked closer, the rabbit sat still. It didn’t move a hair. …

It devastated my community 10 years ago today — Everyone around here remembers how weird the weather was on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. It was unseasonably warm and the sky just looked … odd. I was enjoying a day off from my job — I was at that time the editor of the local daily newspaper. My city editor…