Technically, not a lie, but I went on a first date with a guy and we started talking about family traditions and weddings came up. He said something about Polish weddings and I asked, "Are you Polish?" "No." "Have you been to a Polish wedding? Whose? When?" "Uh...mine." In all our online exchanges, he never mentioned…

Told me his mother was dead.... later transpired he just considered her to be 'spiritually dead' and in fact spoke to her all the time!

I really appreciate that you wrote this. I hope there was some kind of conversation with Doug and the author of the Gawker article about their pieces. For a website that spends a lot of (important) time speaking against victim blaming, it really was atrocious and disheartening that a piece mocking someone for…

I was waiting on a chance to speak with someone at RAINN (which didn't happen until this afternoon). While ideally the turnaround time would be quicker we both needed to find time in our schedules to talk. I didn't want to write about this without talking to them.

Since Mr Cherry and I heard that episode, we only refer to calamari as "pig assholes." (Not when talking to waitstaff, though.) We still order it all the time.

Considering I just listened to that podcast yesterday, that was my first thought as well.

Infinitely more talented, interesting, and ultimately more confident.

w/e I was a national merit scholar finalist 12 years ago and I still brag about it.

Oh, wow. That's really really really REALLY bad.

Only rarely:

"Samurai Geisha" seriously offends my sense of history, along with all the awful racism from every single one of them.

But it's not even really about the choreography. It's about the glint in her eye that's no longer there. She's not enjoying what she does anymore, & it shows.

I'm mildly obsessed with whatever shade of lipstick that is - and I normally HATE lipstick. I see a trip to Sephora in my near future ...

Has anyone seen this absolutely incredible and generally inspiring statement from Sen. Elizabeth Warren? Her general badassery might give us all a little hope.

Number two, your eye makeup looks fabulous.

Not until he finishes his script.

The Pope is gunning for Prom King, though.

You could argue that gender mainstreaming could encourage men to participate in some of these stereotypically female activities (like running errands related to caring for children or other family members) by making them less annoying to do.

I loved The Westing Game! It was so clever. I loved it like I loved the movie "Clue."

I loved it when I read it in my sixth grade class and always remembered it, so when I taught sixth grade it was the first book we read as a class. It's almost more fun as an adult, although there are some weird 70s-era slang/racial stereotypes that were...interesting to explain to preteens today.