It’s hard not to get cynical about the world these days. But every once in awhile, someone proves you wrong by displaying a small act of kindness, which sticks out like a sore thumb by contrast. These...
We live in an over-the-top society when it comes to our expectations. We can see it in the choice of our words—things didn’t just go badly, they were a complete disaster. It wasn’t funny, it was absol...
If you’ve ever been on the hunt for a job, you know how hard it can be to “get in through the front door.” The odds are stacked against you, and the employers are already drowning in a sea of resumes....
Your home is your castle. It’s your sanctuary, your place where you hang your hat and you can breathe a sigh of relief. Or at least, it would be if you had roommates that weren’t complete animals.
Every generation has their version of what a “hipster” is, but never before have they become so, dare we say it, trendy. We know you don’t want to hear this, hipsters, but if everyone has ironic moust...
Winter may technically be over, but tell that to the folks on the East Coast who just got blasted by another Nor’easter. Those last few weeks of winter die hard. The following images won’t help shorte...
For the first few thousand years of civilization, teenagers could have massive, epic fails and there would be little record of it happening anywhere. Sorry to say it, but those days are gone. If you w...
It’s a special kind of thrill when you can pull one over on “the man.” Though it seems highly possibly to trick or outrun a cop in the movies, in real life, tricking a cop is much more difficult work....
Men as a whole are notoriously bad at reading signals in a relationship. By the time most of them have figured out that their girlfriends are mad at them, their ladies are already sharpening the knive...
We’ve all seen how both beautiful and scary Mother Nature can be. One minute she’s sharing with you the splendor of a sunset at the Grand Canyon, the next she’s ripping your house out of the foundatio...
Life is short and as you travel through it, you have to ask yourself who you’re going to trust. If you ask most people, they know they can trust their close circle of friends, including their signific...
It used to be that if you weren’t home, you weren’t going to see who was at your door. Or, if it was in the middle of the night and you heard a knock at the door, it was your choice to ignore it or gr...
You make the best with what you've been given. And if you were born with a disability, or if you ended up disabled down the road, you know most people without disabilities take for granted what they h...
Life as a university or college professor isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, if you’re lucky you have tenure and have a passion for teaching. But even if that’s the case, you’re going to end up wi...
We take for granted how much we’ve learned from stupid and painful experience. The very fact that we can walk, we owe to weeks of falling down on our faces while awkwardly trying to balance on tiny, s...
In 1999’s The Matrix, our main hero Neo (Keanu Reaves) learns that he is in fact living in a giant computer simulation. Once he becomes aware of this fact, he learns that the rules of reality can be m...
It can be a rough world out there when you’re all alone and feeling the struggle. Nothing makes everything seem so much easier than when you have a little flashy status. And what better way to have fl...
There are a few differences between modern day internet trolls and the mythological trolls of the old fairy tales. One is a pathetic, despicable monster steeped in evil that attempts to destroy withou...
It’s an old idea, this job thing. You do a task for an employer or client, and then they pay you money. Simple idea. But no, even this concept is lost on people.
As anyone with a disability can tell you, life isn’t always fair. Whether you were born with a condition or later developed one because of an accident or disease…it’s not fun knowing that there are so...