Wow, that sounds like a rough transition! Good luck staying stable!

While I don’t ENTIRELY agree that you made the bed, I’m 100% behind your efforts to arrange it as comfortably as possible. And in the end only you can say what those arrangements should be. Seems like if you’ve been married 20 years, you must be doing something right!

Having been both super thin and way, way not-thin (as I prefer, “traditionally built”), I will vouch for all the flaws you see even when you have the “right” body. There’s no winning that particular game.

That sucks.

Re: any career path.

That’s a totally reasonable number of pets.

Oh, thanks, you’re so sweet! I don’t struggle with an addiction myself, mercifully, but I was just recently talking with friends who do have that suffering in the family. (Same story: accident, pain meds, heroin.) We also lost a close family friend to alcohol a few years back. I’m disabled myself, so I definitely…

Sorry about your brother. It’s a vicious fight. Tell your other brother he’s my hero for getting free.

You can do it. I believe in you.

So true! Well, I don’t have kids, but it seems like common sense: some things are just outside your control. Insisting on total perfection is just a recipe for disaster!

Excellent point.

Yeah, you’re right. I was kind of assuming the coyote in question was already rabid, so, you know, it could just sort of take this asshole with it. But still. Coyote deserves better.

I hope a rabid coyote finds him first.

Hey, we’re all doing the best we can. If macrobiotic is Madonna’s best, OK. If your kids are on the Southern diet, well, big deal. My husband grew up on the Filipino diet, which makes the Southern diet look macrobiotic. And he does just fine!

It’s always fun reminding these folks what Jesus probably looked like.

Yeah, some of their best friends are black! They’re, like, totally not racist!

Seriously, though? I imagine Matt’s troubles with perspective and recognizing his own limitations came later, with success in Hollywood. Perhaps if he had hung around campus long enough to graduate, he’d have a better sense of reality. Harvard has its faults — I’m not saying it doesn’t — but, at the very least, you…

Damn. That IS sad. Now I feel bad for her!

So on the nail!

There are some good things about a Harvard education. But they don’t teach you how to listen.