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Happy Birthday, SkyMan

Today is Skylar's birthday. I spend a lot of time on the internet gushing about him or sharing with you the absurd things he does, like drink Pepto

Podcast Episodes

Episode 147: A New Kind of Peace

This time in Strangerville, how was your Insurrection Day? Meg and Eli discuss it. And Eli shares a story about what it felt like to close out 2020. Story A New Kind of Peace, by Eli McCann (music by Our Friendly Beasts [https://freemusicarchive.

Skylar

Treehouse in the Mountain

Skylar is turning 31 thousand, or so you'd think the way he complained about his aching "dainty ankles" today when we went snowshoeing for a few

Life

The Year Of

I explain this every year but some of you are forgetful and some of you are new and I love the sound of my own voice, so I'm

Podcast Episodes

Episode 146: The Mink Creek Ghost

This time in Strangerville, please please please do not take any medical advice from Strangerville. Please. We don’t know what we’re talking about and we don’t want anyone to die because of things we’ve said. Also, enjoy Eli’s story

Social Distancing

2020

It was June. I went for a run around my city. This was a Saturday and it had been a very hard week in the exact middle of a very

Review

The Most Viewed Posts of 2020

It's time for one of my favorite annual walks down memory lane. Below I've corralled a ranked 10 posts from this very ridiculous website. These are

Ollie

We Are Very Angry With Matt

Matt has decided to move away from us, which is absolutely a hate crime and an act of terror. He sprung the news on us a few months ago. "

Ridiculous

Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie, Part 3

First off, I wrote a piece about what it feels like to close the chapter on 2020. [https://www.thebeehive.com/a-new-kind-of-peace/] It was incredibly cathartic to write this, in

Podcast Episodes

Episode 145: Sleepover

This time in Strangerville, Meg and Eli are pro Big Brother and hereby welcome government surveillance into their lives. Also, a woman finds herself in a bind when her mother sets her up for a sleepover with a girl from school she barely knows.

Ridiculous

Hedgy

A couple years ago my friend Anna got Duncan a little stuffed animal hedgehog. She called it "Hedgy" and this quickly became Duncan's very favorite toy.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 144: Rocky Mountain High

This time in Strangerville, a crime has been committed and it involves ice cream and marital tension. And a man shares his recipe for smoked oregano and college hijinks. Story: Rocky Mountain High, by Scott (music by ProleteR [https://freemusicarchive.org/music/ProleteR/Curses_

Ridiculous

I am married to a deeply weird person.

Just a few days ago Skylar and I decorated gingerbread cookies. With sweat at my brow, I mixed and rolled the dough and then I carefully baked them with love.

Ridiculous

Good Ice Cream

Look. You know me. You've been reading this site since you were mumble mumble years old. Since back before the war. Since the days of Blockbuster and Myspace.

Podcast Episodes

Episode 143: Dead Cow

This time in Strangerville, 2020 has ruined our ability to actually gauge our own productivity, Meg is terrified for her child to become a teenage boy one day, and a woman ends up at the center of a police investigation after stumbling upon a

Ridiculous

A Good Finder

My husband, the man who vowed before God to love and worship and support and never criticize and always agree and suffer in silence for me, attacked me out of

Ridiculous

Frosty

For the past several years, Sky and I have basically been the only house on the street to put up Christmas lights. We're frustrated about this because if

Podcast Episodes

Episode 142: Classic Skating

This time in Strangerville, Eli urges you not to take prescription medications that aren’t for you. Meg agrees, and is disappointed. And a roll down memory lane in Utah’s musty skating rink. Story Classic Skating, by Eli McCann (music by Gillicuddy [https:

Ridiculous

How Not To Buy A Phone

Skylar has been begging me to get a new phone since before the war. I don't know how long it's been since I've upgraded,

Work

Careers

My phone starts buzzing. It's Skylar. It's 4:00 PM. The fact that he's calling me at this time probably means he finished his

House

Painting

When I moved into my house in Year Of Our Lord XIIBV, one of the first things I noticed was that all the walls were beige, which I didn'

Podcast Episodes

Episode 141: The Beehive State

This time in Strangerville, we discuss Four Seasons Total Landscaping and our attempts to disconnect from the news of the day for our own survival. Plus, a story from Eli about playing the recorder in fourth grade. Story: The Beehive State, by Eli McCann

The Beehive

Change

Ok nobody panic but I changed some stuff. I know. I know. We're not supposed to change things. Change is not a thing we handle. There's

Skylar

The Urge To Be Happy

I'm sitting at my kitchen table. The fire is going. Duncan is perched in front of the front door staring out at a snow storm. Skylar is in

knitting

Every Damn Day

Skylar's latest rotation is in dermatology, which I've been looking forward to because of a baseless but immovable assumption that it would give him access to

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