Yes, I agree. When someone I only casually keep up with through social media pops up to invite me to their party or wedding, I’m annoyed. I’d rather just be like “oh they had a baby. nice.”

I am also 41 and I have a giant forehead zit that brings the attention away from my eye wrinkles.

It’s too fucking expensive. It always has been pricey but when I was 7 my family went and they weren’t rich. It was our “big vacation” that we took and didn’t take another one for a few years. There’s no way I could afford to take my children. None. The prices are astronomical now. Just way beyond what your average…

Follow up story: Lorde has terrible greasy onion farts.

I love that the world did not embrace Billy Bush’s half-assed apology.

I hope that the Monica Lewinsky one does for Monica what the OJ one did for Marcia Clark. As in, I didn’t ever like Marcia when the trial was happening (although to be fair, I was dumb and in high school) and watching this humanized her and made me realize what a total shit end of the stick she got. I really hope the…

It reminds me of friendship bracelets when I was little. In 5th & 6th grade everyone was making friendship bracelets and I could make them super fast. This other girl, Jennifer, also made them super fast and sold them. I felt bad for the kids who couldn’t buy them and made them for free for kids who claimed they…

I am a “not fun” mom and I hate this crap. I hate play doh. I hate kinetic sand (although that can be vacuumed easily) and I hate slime. I went to Michaels and I followed their stupid slime recipe and it was such a joke. It made the tiniest amount of slime and it was drippy and messy and terrible. I don’t know what I…

I watch now and feel like Ben was too good for Winona in that one. He was right to never speak to her again.

You could just have him call your mom on her birthday where he sings Happy birthday over the phone. You’d be favorite kid for sure.

Mayer is the kind of guy I would have pursued in my 20s but Groban is the kind of guy I like in my 40s. He has a good job. He’s creative. He’s very funny and smart. He seems humble. Sure he may not be as hot as Zac Efron but he’s cute. I’d stay with him even if he insisted on singing “You raise me up!” every time he…

My therapist gave me that wording. When I first started individual therapy I had a lot of guilt for not being happy in my marriage and for about 5 years prior I had been the one doing everything — booking the date nights, apologizing after arguments, all of the house chores - while also working full time, most of the…

Good luck to you as you get through all of this. That is good to hear.

Thank you for this.

Thank you. That therapist’s comment made me want to scream.

As someone who’s marriage is most likely unraveling, it’s really dismissive to hear friends and other say “Well, marriage is hard work!” Yes, all relationships are work. But there’s an ROI for that work. You fight, you make up, you get needs met, you meet needs. Sometimes though, it is just terrible gut wrenching…

I’m very late to the Momastery revolution. I read her Love Warrior book after the divorce was made public and she makes my roll my eyes so hard but then every so often there’s a little nugget that makes me think about something in an entirely new way. So I got her first book from the library and it’s really really…

When I was an intern at a job (like 16 years ago) there was a cake on a table - not like a birthday cake - just a sheet cake, unmarked. Or maybe it was an unopened box of donuts? I don’t know. Point is there was food and I was a starving college student so I cut into it or opened it. One of the staffers made a point…

Yes, I had a friend who was super indecisive. Texting back and forth to confirm plans was a nightmare. I’d always be texting “Just call me” - one phone call would settle everything in less than 5 minutes and texting could go on for hours and hours.

I worked with my sister one summer at the frozen custard shop and it almost destroyed our relationship so I can’t imagine having a career with her where we travel and tour together. No way.