Recent Comments

1. over 3 years ago on Stone Soup

   Thank you so much for all the years of your wonderful comic. I started reading it when I had an infant, and I found it so relatable. Yours is the only comic I read, so I think I will go back and start at the beginning. Now that my sons are 11 and 14, and I am a single mom, I imagine I will find new things to relate to!

2. about 6 years ago on Stone Soup

   I didn’t feel like it was judgmental at all! Two smart, competent women are shown enjoying romance novels. As a reader of the genre myself, I take no offense at jokingly calling them “trashy.” I love this week’s strip.

3. over 6 years ago on Stone Soup

   Because so many people misunderstand what feminism even is (see above), including women and some feminists. When some people hear the word “feminist,” they imagine man-hating hippies burning their bras and not shaving their armpits, and they think, “Well, I am not like THAT, so I’m not a feminist.” Yes, there are some man-hating feminists. There are some non-armpit-shaving feminists. But it isn’t the man-hating or armpit hair length or the state of the brassiere on the person in question that defines them as feminists – it is the belief that women are equal to men and should have the same opportunities and pay. I am a stay-at-home momming, Cub Scout-leading, school-volunteering, cookie-baking, mini van-driving feminist.

4. about 7 years ago on Stone Soup

   I love it! Thanks, Jan.

5. almost 10 years ago on Stone Soup

   Yeah, Arnold, the man who travels around the world building houses and helping the less fortunate, is some kind of crazy crook. And Evie is a naive young thing who is going to be taken in by some pretty words and romance. They are both mature and intelligent enough to figure things out. They’ve obviously kept their relationship going despite Evie’s spending time at home. I would think they could largely continue as they have been, even if they are married. She travels with him and then goes home for extended visits. Maybe he comes with her some of the time. It’s not hard to imagine.

6. over 12 years ago on Stone Soup

   The people who are saying education in the US is so great or that we spend so much money on it obviously don’t live in the real world. This strip is very timely for me, as day before yesterday I sat through three hours of a school board meeting, while they tried to tire us out so they wouldn’t have to hear us, listening to a man talk for an hour about how California has been lowering and lowering the amount of money for education to where our districts are now becoming insolvent. I got up to speak to try to save my school, a great school with high test scores, because due to midyear budget cuts the state may make, the district can’t afford to keep the schools open.

7. almost 13 years ago on Stone Soup

   “Soccer mom aspirations” just means, you want to be a perfect mom, clean house, mini van, well-behaved children, put-together, all that… not that you actually want to put your child into soccer. So, in regards to that, it means both children.

8. about 14 years ago on Stone Soup

   Aw, Wally, pink nightmare. I love it. He’s a good dad, and therefore he realizes that the EASTER BUNNY has nothing to do with a Christian Easter and everything to do with the fun of being a child. Even though he hates it, he’s making special memories for the kids.