Nostalgia The Year Of When I was sitting in my office in the hot tropics with ants literally crawling on my feet in February of 2013, I started having a panic attack. It wasn&
Rebecca Frozen I want to write but my mind is frozen. This is partly because it is negative eleventy degrees today in Salt Lake City. And, I know. Some of you live in Michigan or Wisconsin or Siberia or wherever and I shouldn't complain
Ollie Eleven Eleven We know Duncan was born sometime around the beginning of November, but we don't know the exact date. I explained to him recently that his biological mother didn&
Palau A Binder of Documents I poured over a binder of documents that if presented carefully should have helped someone in court. It was late, and I was tired. But it didn't matter. The contention of litigation didn't care that I was tired. Fighting. That&
Life A Charlottesville Vigil A long day went by. It was long for me but surely much longer for others. I felt a heaviness that I've felt too much lately. A heaviness
Life Things I Never Thought Would Need To Be Said White supremacy is wrong. Nazis are evil. All of them. Misogyny is disgusting. Antisemitism is unacceptable. White people are capable of committing terrorism. Christians are capable of committing terrorism. Hurting or killing people for standing up to white supremacy is terrorism. This [https://www.
Daniel Hard Conversations For the last couple of years I've been silently obsessing over something about which I have been unable to come to a conclusion. I don't love
Rebecca Rebecca and Pillows Ring ring Eli: Becky?! Rebecca: I HAVE TRIED TO CALL YOU 27 TIMES! Eli: No. You have tried to call me 2 times. Rebecca: I COULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED! Eli:
Ridiculous Weirdest Birthday Party Ever It was my birthday last week ("oh em gee eli no way you look so young you never age!" stop it you guys). I was informed by friends
Life The Year Of To recap this other post [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2016/08/the-year-of-productivity.html]: Rather than have New Year's Resolutions that I abandon with reckless disregard on January 7th,
Life 2016 When 2016 began I decided I was going to be much more productive. I was going to be brave enough and work hard enough to get whatever it was I
Brianne Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself You know I'm a hypochondriac. What you don't know is that I only tend to believe I have a disease when I don't actually
Life Transitions A lot of people were shocked last night when the election results unfolded. There's disappointment in many people today. This disappointment is the most consistent part of American
Life A Whole Bunch of People Decided to Vote A whole bunch of people got up today in my country to vote. A bunch of others already voted days or weeks ago by mailing in their ballots. The ballots
Work I Sat Down To Write Something I am burned out tonight. I sat down to write something. I thought this creative outlet might be a helpful break from preparing for a court hearing I have in the morning. Work has been a special kind of overwhelming lately. Not an exciting
Brianne How Do You Overcome Anxiety? [https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WUMQtJac6XY/WAcI8ABmliI/AAAAAAAAEuA/wbNluZm81uIJIKHMkNTJimvklve6uVVCACLcB/s1600/013.JPG] Oh, to be Mr. Pants.The other day I told you about my anxiety attack in the middle
Ollie The Perfect Storm Rebecca got married on Friday and Saturday. Notice I said Friday AND Saturday. I say this, because this person who told me she just wanted to elope had a TWO-DAY
Life A Colorado Wedding My childhood best friend Sam asked me a few weeks ago to officiate his wedding in Colorado, a wedding that happened on Saturday. Obviously I immediately began preparing FOR MY
Matt The Year of Productivity I realized some time ago that New Year’s resolutions work as well for me as they do for most people. I embrace them enthusiastically on January first and then
Nostalgia My Favorite Posts With some regularity people will email me and say they just found Stranger and they wonder if I have any "favorite" posts they should make sure to check
Life There's Still Dancing Some terrible things are happening. Horrific bombings in Iraq. Fanatic shootings at home. Families and lives torn apart because of hate, and misunderstanding, and anger, and fear, and and and
Jolyn Aftermath Last week I wrote what is probably the most controversial thing I've ever published on Stranger. Don't worry. This isn't a political post, and today I'm not writing about the substance of that other political post.
Jolyn Episode 5: The World of Choice In this heavy week, we bring you an aptly-timed Episode 5 of Strangerville: The World of Choice. In this special episode, we explore religious extremism from an exceedingly unique perspective.
Law The Thing About Guns Chanting that "guns don't kill people" and that "people kill people" has never made a lot of sense to me. I mean, I get it. The person shouting it is probably trying to demonstrate in some way that
Life Stranger Hits BBC In January this woman from the BBC reached out to me and asked if we could talk about something I wrote on Stranger in 2014 [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2014/
