My parents never checked my candy, so when a friend’s mom insistently grabbed for our bags after hours of trick or treating it was fairly annoying. I loved getting homemade halloween treats from neighbors and never once thought anything of it. The only thing weird we had in our bags one year was a couple of fake…

What I’ve noticed if someone smells due to their clothes rather than hygiene, their house probably reeks as well. They probably don’t even notice it if they’re around it all the time. Everyone has their own personal musk that you can’t personally smell until you leave the house for a couple of days and walk into your…

A friend of mine had the same problem when she just had a baby. She tried to make sure photos didn’t get leaked on Facebook and let us know ahead of time, but it happened anyway. She had recently cut tie with her hostile, unstable family and was being extra careful with baby pictures being posted. In a scary turn of…

My brother got hitched fairly quickly when his girlfriend of 6 months got pregnant. She seemed okay at the time, fairly high maintenance, but he tends to dote on that sort of thing, so the family kept their opinions to themselves.....as well you should....until she her true colors showed bridezilla-style during the…

We get brown widows all the time on the backyard patio. Some people say they’re worse than black widows, but everything I’ve read says their venom isn’t nearly as bad. They love laying their nasty spiky eggs underneath the chairs, so I constantly have to flip them over to check. When we find them the hubby grabs a…

I’ve been dreading this for over a year and been researching getting an IUD very soon. Even generic BC can cost $50+ a month.

My brother and sister are 10 and 14 years older than me, so I was literally the kid sister in the family. Granted, I’m a product of a second marriage so that’s super common, but a part of me always wanted a sibling closer to my age like my friend’s did. I felt like a only child at 9 when they all moved out, but at…

I was always surprised when an office tyrant is allowed to keep their job, until I had to work with one for 5 years. No one was complaining to the higher ups, including myself, so we became part of the problem. It’s messy business when you have to approach your boss about uncomfortable situations with a co-worker and…

THIS! My friend did this with her son over a 3 day lockdown in their house. Their kid loved that he got to snack and drink all day long, so it felt like a game while mom and dad kept leading him in and out of the bathroom every half hour or so. No one was allowed in their house for a least a week afterwards,…

I still remember telling my parents at the dinner table when I was 14 a gay joke I heard from my friends at school I found hilarious at the time. I got a very stern, “Why is that funny?” by my father.  We never had many open dialogs about LGBTQ issues before, so I got a good talking to by my parents about not…

My sister adopting a newfoundland mix from a local shelter. When she took her kids to check him out the youngest suddenly plopped down on him. The dog just calmly turned and licked him in the face. He was such a good boy. Loved looking after him. Our greyhound is another story. He’s a former racer and they are a very…

I run 5 to 6 days a week on the treadmill at the gym or in the neighborhood and have done so for years. When I got really sick for a lung issue for over a month I was going crazy at home. I didn’t realize how much I relied on my workout routine for a stress reliever and energy booster. Zero exercise with the…

Crohn’s disease runs in my family and my mom, aunt and grandfather have pretty bad cases of it. My mom was terrified of getting an colonoscopy because her sister had her colon perforated during the procedure. Her doctor kept insisting and when my mom gave the okay the exact same thing happened to her. It was done by…

Very good advice! I wish I would have known these tips back in college. When I was traveling from a day trip to Atlanta with some friends we got pulled over on the interstate. The cops immediately wanted to search the car. We knew full well they were looking for drugs. My friend gave them the okay, which was a pretty…

My cousin was diagnosed with ODD after he kept getting kicked out of several preschool and kindergarten classes. My aunt and uncle never sought out additional treatment or looked into specialized schools, just labeled him as a ‘Bad Kid’ and was sent to hang out with Grandma and Grandpa when they didn’t want to deal…

I had a former friend who abandoned her dog at a shelter after having him for 4 years. A day before she moved up to Canada with her new boyfriend she surprised us with a call saying she wasn’t taking her dog and was dropping him off. Her only explanation was that she just didn’t want him anymore and wanted a new…

My friend’s dog was put on a semi vegan diet due to stomach issues that were making her quality of life unbearable. She still eats meat, it’s just limited to avoid excess inflammation. It depends on the breed and genetics, which explains why some dogs do great on the raw diet when others can’t tolerate it.

Excellent article! A good portion of my friends are new parents and the old days of hanging out all night went way out the window. I’m lucky if I can meet them at restaurants once in awhile. Some friendships were easy to hold on to despite the total priority change that comes with having a new family. Just recently I…

One of my co-workers developed Bell’s Palsy and thankfully it went away within a month even though his doctor said it was possible to have it for years. He would jokingly complain that he had to learn to keep his facial expressions super neutral when he was out and about or else he’d look like Two Face if he smiled at…

I once spent the night at a friend’s house for a New Year’s party and had no idea she had not one, but four cats. People think once your use your inhaler you’re good to go. Hell no. It can aggravate your system for days, even after you’re no longer exposed to the source.