Kind of boring, by some standards, but happy in a way you appreciate only when you understand the consequences of not being boring. Which - JD Vance

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?

Mamaw Bonnie herself was so terrifying that, many decades later, a Marine Corps recruiter would tell me that I’d find boot camp easier than living at home. “Those drill instructors are mean,” he said. “But not like that grandma of yours.

I had no idea how to deal with relationship problems, so I chose not to deal with them at all.