Hers has always seemed ready to jump on the bandwagon of labeling all emotional pain as a disorder — hers TV Spot, 'Stress Levels' Featuring Kristen Bell Fed up with constantly rising stress levels and anxiety, actress and working mom Kristen Bell turns to her trusty team…ispot.tv I adore Kristen Bell, even through her missteps. She feels like a truly earnest person who has been sheltered a bit in her life. (Not from pain, but from a few viewpoints that could have helped her with the whole purple people problems.) …

TX Senate Bill 8 doesn’t care about the life of my kids — Today was the day I told my kids of the abortion that allowed their existence. How I walked a block from my apartment, my roommate holding my hand. I explained how I was in no fit state to raise a child then (wondered if they thought, silently, “or now”) Couldn’t even pay the…

Prompt: Is there a teacher who has influenced or inspired you? — I never had good relationships with my teachers. Adults in my life were just these people I needed to impress so they’d let me keep talking. Teachers were never impressed with me and my inability to focus. But sophomore my AP math teacher was amazing. She’d get her “old bones”…

Prompt: Write a poem about doing laundry — You sat yourself in that great puddle and poured blue paint into your sock, cut yourself on Dad’s gray stubble and bled so much onto your smock. All that blue paint inside your sock seeped into the blankets of your bed and the blood allover your grey smock was such an impressive amount…

Pop the popcorn and turn down the lights Months of waiting have led to this night After years of high-pitched voices and saturated colors, we moved to superheroes and covered ears and grabbed arms to hide from monsters we laughed at a bit later and now we watch the movies with subtitles that have no exposition, and…

I found a group of people who supported each other, lifted each other up, and whom I considered friends. …

Summertime and you — and your special chicken. The air so full of Ranch and dill, co-mingled with the charcoal of a hot grill it’s sometimes hard to breath as we throw back shots of vanilla vodka and laugh about all the shit we’ve ever said. Day 7/7 Patches of…

Filter your email for fun and profit — I can solve all your problems with this one simple trick to sort through all those “tag” emails (and help find any submissions you may have to edit). [Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰 before you think this is just a joke, it isn’t. This is what you need to do to.] Drowning…

I love AdorkaStock and how she uses all body types and fun props. Last year I took some time to design costumes for some of the poses. I’m…