I drove through it last summer. Secretary of Tourism Jim Hagen did not seem grateful.

Most embarrassing experience of my life - I was about 17, at a 'cool kids' party doing my damndest to fit in and chatting with the guy who was playing bartender about my newfound feminism. He was agreeing with me and we were having a great time, just talking about how women are perceived as weaker and nonthreatening,…

I got unbridesmaided for pointing out that Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is not the most appropriate 'walk down the aisle' song. They divorced a year later, so I was totally right.

It's winter 2000 or 2001, I've had my license for about six months, and I'm driving my mom's Outback down Connecticut back roads at about 2AM. I've recently taken the car in to a cheapo garage for an oil change. I have my massive black cat in a carrier on the passenger's seat. The cat is horrendously car sick, just…

Almost identical thing happened to me on the Taconic - I was driving late at night, and watching the oncoming headlights flickering between the dividing guardrail posts, when suddenly I realized that the headlights of one car weren't flickering. Still sends my adrenaline pumping ten years later.

Please *please* help me find this one collection of scary stories that I LOVED as a YA - I've posted about it before but I'm all gray and sad. It was a collection of ghost stories about Christmas, set in the UK. There are three that I really remember: a girl finds a hidden room in a cabin and fights the ghost that…

Okay, I need help. Serious help. THIS IS SERIOUS. When I was a kid, I was given a book of ghost stories about Christmas that was clearly of British origin. It contained some of the creepiest and most captivating short scary stories EVER, and I cannot find it anywhere. There are two stories that I can really…

I wish they'd gone with Ruth Jones, instead. Nessa <3

There was an amazing episode of All in the Family where Gloria and Meathead were dealing with *this exact same thing*. It's actually the reason I was born - my parents saw it and changed their minds. Not that I'm advocating for changing your mind - it's just kind of striking how there are folks in every generation…

Can we please have an "ask a social worker" event? I have so many questions.

Slate had a good article about what goes on during animal adoptions that I found very enlightening: Link

I'd be perfectly happy if they'd just ban all shows that don't regularly feature Bill Bailey.

Yes, we are one.

I LOVE board games, but as a staunch introvert married to a radical introvert I have nobody to play them with and meetups are always at strangers' houses and I am afraid of strangers and of speaking to strangers which sort of dampens my ability to play. ANY SUGGESTIONS? :)

Practical suggestion: To avoid the pay for return shipping thing, you can refuse receipt of the package and it will be sent back to the sender. All you have to do is make sure it isn't dropped off at your home while you're not there - so call the post office or UPS/FedEx and arrange a pickup time. When it comes in,…

Okay mine's weird but reallyreally good and I wish to brag. After years (yeeeeears) of questionable presents, the highlight of which was a set of those "soup in a mason jar" things, my husband finally struck gold. I have a nasty case of misophonia where quiet normal sounds make me want to scratch peoples' eyes out,…