Today I started blogging again with a biweekly contribution to One Year of Letters. Check out my post there, and then keep reading for more wisdom from the other contributors.
2/4/2015
Dear Amanda
This can’t go on. Really, it can not go on.
You say this to yourself every time you flush the toilet in your bathroom and find yourself pulling the lid off the tank, pushing up your sleeve, and reaching in to adjust the stopper so the toilet won’t run. That stopper has failed to properly seat itself upon flushing for over a month now.
A month. Maybe two.
There’s no excuse for letting it go so long. There’s a plumbing supply store and 2 hardware stores around the corner from your apartment. You wouldn’t even have to cross the street to buy whatever you need to fix it. Of course, it offends you that you cannot figure out what’s causing the stopper to fall askew and let water leak into the bowl (it’s not a faulty chain or balloon, all you plumbing experts). You want to fix…
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AM Justice 
Great letter, Amanda 😀