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  • Protected: Oh Yay, My Brother’s Birthday… Said No One Ever

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  • When Facebook Becomes Therapy (But Shouldn’t Be)

    So, my brother decided to go on one of his rants on Facebook again. You know the type — long-winded, dramatic, and sprinkled with that classic “everybody’s against me” flavor. No real point, just a bunch of emotional throw-up on the timeline. Now, I’m not here to argue with him, pick sides, or even try…

  • Touched by His Noodly Appendage: My Ordination Story

    So here’s something not everyone knows about me: I’m an ordained minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Yep, you read that right. A full-blown, 100% legitimate Pastafarian minister. And no, I don’t wear a colander on my head (well… not often). It all started as a joke. I stumbled across this thing…

  • Brother, Stranger, Whatever

    So I heard from my so-called brother today—for the first time in months. Yeah, that brother. The one who basically disowned me over politics. Imagine that: growing up together, sharing holidays, memories, inside jokes—and then boom, it’s all gone because we don’t agree on some talking heads and red vs. blue nonsense. Unreal. It was…

  • Log Off and Let the World Burn

    So I think this weekend I’m gonna finally do it. A good ol’ social media spring cleaning… or beginning-of-summer cleaning—whichever label makes you feel better about the fact that time is moving way too damn fast. I’m talking about deleting. Purging. Nuking the garbage. I’ve got way too many social media accounts that I don’t…