I made a fantastic cake this weekend. Spiced apple cake with brown-butter pecan praline glaze and flaked sea salt. I am very proud of it, and I am trying to not eat all of it!

#notalltrolls

All of the news just makes me want to cry, so I'm sharing a good story from today. This little chickadee who I babysit for sometimes (she's four) and I were out getting hot chocolate today. Chickadee was holding her Elsa doll (of course), and the older lady behind us saw it and asked her if she wanted to grow up to be…

My estranged father just sent me a picture of my 6 y/o niece standing next to a deer carcass in the room where I was raped the first time. Virtual hugs, please?

So. I am here to give an update about what happened last week when I fled from my emotionally abusive boyfriend. I've been posting about trying to get out of this relationship for a while but had been very very stuck do to being very very poor and very alone in a new city and not being able to afford a place of my own…

I prefer cranberry pills over the juice, it's a little easier to take. I get them at CVS. My Dr always says that they can prevent a UTI but don't cure them, so I'm not sure how much they do when you're alresdy in pain. I normally take them at the first sign of any irritation and it will usually nip it in the bud. I…

This is legitimately adorable, Madeleine.

MOAR ARTICLES LIKE THESE, PLEASE.

This is the best thing I've read all week. I love Victorian drama so much. I want this to be a movie right now.

Of course, that would result in most pets never being adopted in the first place, and a whole lot of younger and healthier animals getting euthanized as a result.

From my point of view - better that I adopted my cat from the county shelter and gave him several years of a happy and healthy life. If I can't afford…

My OKCupid inbox really lit up while I was on vacation.

People who help others cheat are gross and lack personal ethics. That's just a truth.

Exactly. Plus, this whole article IS NOT about a quest to cure cystic acne with pee. 95% of it is about the concept itself and the author's own squeamishness. There's like, two lines worth of what she actually did ("I finally put some pee on my face"), and what actually happened ("maybe this one zit is kinda smaller?…

Would you say he looked "udderly defeated"?

Like, 13 years ago, I got arrested for "borrowing" an RV that was for sale in my neighbors yard. He had left the keys in the ignition. My pal and I (totally sober btw) decided to take it for a spin around the block. When we got back the cops were waiting for us. My neighbor didn't press charges. He actually kinda…

Oh god

When I was in college, my roommate and I went to some Halloween party with a girl from our dorm. The next morning, she comes walking up to the common area still in her eighties-prom outfit. We asked her where she ended up staying the night...she lifts up her dress to reveal her yellow thighs and says "Bart Simpson…

So, as an old (30), I definitely remember the relationship drama of college. VIVIDLY. It's very possible that you're giving off don't-tell-me-about-your-boyfriends vibes, but it's also possible that your friends are trying too hard to spare your feelings because they are uncomfortable about the fact that you're the…

So, I had posted recently a few times about how I was seeing a guy I wasn't sure if I had chemistry with, then after finally getting somewhat physical I determined that there is chemistry (holy hell, is there ever chemistry) and I shared that and now... I have a boyfriend. I am someone's girlfriend. I haven't been…

I have a close girlfriend - well, we've waned a bit in the past 6 years, but we love each other - whose brother and nephew have a similar story.