I’m Comic Sans, Asshole

flax-goldentales: BY MIKE LACHER – – – – Listen up. I know the shit you’ve been saying behind my back. You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font. Well think again, nerdhole, because I’m Comic Sans, and I’m the best thing to happen to typography sinceContinue reading “I’m Comic Sans, Asshole”

I decided to settle in. Next came an Orthodox couple—he in a black frock coat and beaver fur hat, she in a glossy wig, neither of them, amazingly enough, sweating in the bright heat. Then a stooped man in a shirt and tie, carrying a thick book, “The Psychology of Shame.” Three pretty young womenContinue reading

New Ways to Think About Grief (Time Magazine)

psychotherapy: The five stages of grief are so deeply embedded in our culture that they’ve become virtually inescapable. Every time we experience loss — whether personal or national — we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. They’re invoked to explain our emotional reaction to everything from the death of a loved oneContinue reading “New Ways to Think About Grief (Time Magazine)”

Sometimes, My Parents Amaze Me.

Seriously. Maybe this is typical of the age I’m at, but sometimes I think about it and am swept away with appreciation for them.  My mom grew up in poverty in a tiny town in Tennessee. When she graduated high school, the schools weren’t yet successfully integrated because it had only happened a few yearsContinue reading “Sometimes, My Parents Amaze Me.”