Android cases would be prettier. Nerd girls would just be nerds. Men would pick up trash to impress women. Women would tell off color jokes to impress men. They’d share dreams and household chores. Men could finally wear murses and carry all of their crap without fear.

She told tales of what it was like for her children to grow up in the rainforest, collecting ants and braving falling tarantulas. She shared how a question about a leaf had started her career as an “arbornaut” on the eighth continent. She grew up climbing trees, she explained warmly, and rescuing earthworms from the lawn mower.

I tried to click on the link but my Facebook app was being a bottom. I had to wait, like, three minutes for it to open. Seriously. Thank God I had a book and a mocha to get me through it.

By the time it loaded, I was already bored with the whole thing. Which was helpful because I’d forgotten that I used to be angry. I looked at my screen and read:

Listen, I feel your pain, and all I can say is that there is apparently no stopping this man. I suppose you could write your congressman, but we all know that nobody really does that.

To say I devoured it is an understatement. It went down smooth and hardy, like homemade chicken noodle soup. I made lists of people I wanted to buy it for.

At first, he gave the kids his own instruments, but soon he had more willing participants than he had resources. One day, someone brought something that changed everything—an instrument made out of trash.

But it didn’t matter. The gremlins attacked me full force. They called me fake, cheap, and full of spam. I ended the sale. And attempted to quietly fade into the background. Maybe extending the sale was the absolute right thing for my business and my clients. Didn’t matter, I couldn’t handle anyone else suggesting I was scamming them.

“With all due respect, what does it matter to you if I work? I’m still paying for the childcare.”

“There’s a waiting list for your son’s class. If someone applies who is dual military or has a traditional job, I have to give them your spot. Unless you can provide further proof.”

Breathing the slow, serene sighs of a pig in slop, my canine companion, Sebastian, appears to be contemplating either (a) nothing, or (b) whether the carpet on the other side of the couch might be more fluffy.

Daring Greatly is about vulnerability, and how the courage to be vulnerable can change your freaking life. Brené Brown is a researcher who studies shame, vulnerability, and what she calls “wholeheartedness.”

I love chocolate. Sometimes, I make brownies at night so I can eat them for breakfast. Sometimes I make brownies for breakfast so I can eat them all day. I love chocolate.

The kids are given a 13 page Crisis Document with 50 interlocking world problems, everything from ethnic and minority tensions to oil spills to global warming. The game is won when the students untangle and solve all 50 problems and increase each country’s asset value above its starting point.