To be fair, I can’t even say ‘honey’ with a straight face

Last month, Y Chrome’s family expanded their business and they’ve been getting a lot of press for it. W., who gets every paper on this side of the Mississippi, brought me one I hadn’t seen yet, and we were reading it together.
Me: Oh my god. His aunt actually says,“We need to sell this stuff, sugar.” [...]

Yankee Doodle dalliance

For the first 21 years of my life I lived in Connecticut. This, I suppose, makes me a Northerner, though I never would have thought to refer to myself that way until I moved to Virginia to attend graduate school four years ago. Really, even later than that. I went to school in a liberal [...]

For the man at the door tells me so

Yesterday, Y Chromosome and I were sitting on my couch in our skivvies, drinking out of my cocktail recipe glass. I was showing him Cliche Kitty, which one of our friends used to have hanging in his bathroom (right over where the toilet paper would be, if ever he had some in stock), when there [...]