“Listen up, babies. We’ve been dancing around the issue of taxes for a while now, and it’s time we got to it. Yes, we’ve explained the importance of taxes as a fee for membership in civilization. We’ve told you why you should file your taxes ASAP. And we’ve even told you about that time the IRS audited me!

It’s time to face the beast head-on. It is our sacred duty, as your duly appointed Bitches, to take you through this unpleasantness step by step.”

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THERE’S BEEN A CHIPMUNK hanging around the front of the house all summer and as I was watering the spike I saw it scurry by me on its way to the other side of the front of the house. I do not like the damage that chipmunks can cause so I stopped watering and glared at the little rodent to see where it was going.

And, of course, I yelled a few random death threats at it.

As one does.”

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“While I dusted, I pondered to myself. “Why is it that the items that Santa brought me are still in the boxes and collecting dust?”

I sprayed a paper towel with Windex and dusted them off.

“Dusting…dusting…dusting…it’s quite disgusting. Dearest Miss Shelley, to have a needfor something purchased through Windows shopping on Amazon 3 months ago, yet to be used, sitting here collecting a pale dust is disgusting.”

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“In the quiet my mind wandered. Watching and listening to the latest rain storm to crash into our little bungalow, sat on a little Yorkshire Hill.

How can I get Hawklad for a holiday somewhere. How to do it without ramping up his anxieties, how to fund it, where to go. I kept going back to previous holidays, holidays before our little world changed. Coming to the same phrase in my head.

Can never be the same again.”

Never the same: A Dad trying to cope with the loss of his Partner and becoming a single parent.


The EU Took a Big Step to Protect the Environment

The EU parliament recently became the first international body to criminalize serious cases of environmental destruction with larger fines and prison sentences as consequences for violators. euronews.green has details.

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