Bob and Cathie Soup My parents tested positive for Covid a couple weeks ago. I'll probably share more about how stressful (I mean, like, living in a nightmare concocted by Satan itself)
Essays Stepping Out This piece was submitted by a writer who has requested anonymity. I squirmed on the backless wooden bench where I sat, hoping my face was not turning red. The minister
House A Little Secret I'll let you in on a secret They don't tell you when you buy a home with a yard because They want you to fail. I
Ukraine The BBC A few months ago the BBC reached out to me and said they had found my Ukrainian appendectomy story on Strangerville and they wondered if they could feature it in
Skylar None Of It Is Sexy I'm not sure why we create media around sexing up the profession of physicians. This is not a sexy job. I'm sorry to dismantle the decades
Nostalgia Life Is Good It's short day at school—Friday. The bell just rang and you are heading home at 1:45 PM. It's springtime and you're carrying
Duncan Teeth Cleaning We were told some time ago that you really should get your dog's teeth cleaned. This was a part of a lecture that included advice that I'
Skylar The Holy First Church of Saint Peloton I learned about Peloton a couple years ago, probably from Meg. She told me at that time that the most supportive friend in her life was an exceptionally gay Peloton
Jude A True Democracy One of the plus sides to living in These Unprecedented Times is many of my friends realized all at once that they could actually just go ahead and get really
Ridiculous Just In Case Cookies A few weeks ago @gimmeplants [https://twitter.com/gimmeplants] on Twitter posted a picture of an absolute abomination called "Just In Case Cookies." We talked about it on
Medical School Things Are Looking Up Skylar no longer has time for basic news. If I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the result, but not of the means and methods to get
Meg Help me I'm poor. A couple of quick things: First, your comments on the Shannon recap [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2021/01/shannon-recap-of-1961-byu-film-about.html] are giving me life. Also, SOMEONE IN THE COMMENTS LITERALLY
Essays Shannon: A Recap Of A 1961 BYU Film About A Very Naughty Girl When I saw there was a BYU film from 1961 called “Shannon” I pulled the trigger and that’s how we ended up here. I have not seen this. I
Skylar If We Ever Do Meet Again It Will Be Zion To Me We decided to take the weekend off and drive down to Zion National Park. This was a risky thing to do, we admit, considering our last few attempts to visit
Medical School An Impossible Way To Live My husband, who art in heaven, hallowed be his name, decided to become an absolute terrorist two nights ago. Look. He's stressed and exhausted and exhausted and stressed
Ridiculous Dishes "Did you have company in here today?" Skylar was asking it sarcastically, and I knew that was the case, so I guess that's why I responded
Ridiculous Companionship Inventory When Skylar and I got married my mother—the woman who birthed me into this world—the being from whom my body emerged through a process she has since called
Skylar 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
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
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
