You do not wake up one morning and find your children have left you. The distance happens gradually. It appears in small, easy to miss ways. It is not because…
Some of the most common words in English don’t have Latin or Greek or other ancient roots. They were just made up. Someone, somewhere, at some time, invented them. They…
Marriage is never just smooth sailing — especially after a couple of decades. When some husbands reach their 50s, they start to find that what used to be simple tasks…
If you’ve ever felt like California lives in its own universe, you’re not wrong because the laws there do prove it. They have frogs with more rights than people’s lunch,…
Any travellers to the U.S. might just think the only fast food places are McDonald's & Burger King—but honestly, there are so many more interesting places here. We have plenty…
American roads are a wild mix of rules and signs that make total sense if you grew up here—but zero sense if you didn’t. Anyone from outside the USA would…
If you ever feel the DMV has forgotten to tell you the rules, you’re not wrong—there are a bunch of things they like to keep on the down-low. This stuff…
Most people don’t set out to look cheap or low class, but it happens in small ways without you noticing. It’s not always about money either. The way you carry…
We’re all complicated, messy humans. There are little pieces of each of us that just don’t make sense to other people, even though they make all the sense to us.  Some of…
The older I get, the more I find myself quoting my grandparents, doing things their way, and realizing they had much more sense than I gave them credit for. They…