Author: Writer McWriterson

This seemed like a good fit for this week. Enjoy. 

First published January 21, 2020

Listen, I love a good Girl Scout cookie like the rest of you, but I don’t have the patience to wait until February. I also know no one locally who sells Girl Scout cookies anymore except for the kids that camp out at the local grocery store, so I needed a thin mint recipe and I have a feeling you do too.

This thin mint obsession actually started as a Christmas cookie recipe I found via Pinterest a few years ago. It was easy, three ingredients, and it tasted amazing, so it stayed in the old recipe box until the following Christmas. Then over Christmas break this year, I thought, why am I only making these during the holidays? This is a great year-round cookie! 

Then I also thought about how January is so damn

When my friend Shannon called me last fall inquiring if I wished to go to the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop in the spring, it intrigued me.

I remember Erma Bombeck from my childhood. My mom and grandma would watch her on Good Morning America. They bought her books and chuckled at her newspaper columns. I didn’t read her or watch her or laugh at her because I was, like, seven. I was laughing at Scooby-Doo. But she made two women whom I cherished laugh, so I guess you can say I laughed by association.

She was from my home state of…

I love this post because it brought me so much joy to create it. I hope it brings you joy as well. 

First published February 12, 2018

So here I am writing a ton of posts and articles for my other job on a lazy Saturday afternoon when suddenly I got the stupidest brainstorm known to man.

Backstory- I was creating graphics for my blog on Canva (a site with a ton of free DIY graphics) when I see just nonsensical situations played out within those graphics.

Like:

And I was all “I COULD CREATE THE BEST (and by best I mean worst) GRAPHICS WITH TERRIBLE (and by terrible I mean magnificent) WORDS ON THEM”.

Friends, I have a shit-ton of work to do. Like, paid work. Sitting in the hopper waiting for me to work on it.

But this is so much more fun!