My wedding band is too tight so I don't wear it. My husband has never said a thing about it. He wears his on a string around his neck. He's been out of town working for several weeks and I've started to wear a cheap gold band on my ring finger because I want to have that reminder of our connection. He has his faults…

It's not the shelter's fault that they were full. I've been involved with animal welfare volunteer groups for years, and county shelters generally have a mandate that they must take in all unwanted animals that show up. When they get full, they have to euthanize. It's not legal to just keep shoving more and more…

Nope, for this is the proper way of things. Greens! Yummy!

I think some of the commercial diets are really overfeeding. When my cat was eating commercial food and getting less than the appropriate amount for his weight, he was still a fatty. It makes sense that the companies want people to dole out more food than neccessary so that we have to buy more. Though maybe that's too…

I wish my cat had that problem. He was pleasantly plump until he developed one life-threatening chronic disease that required him to have food with a higher protein content, and then a second chronic disease that required him to have food with a lower protein content. This resulted in the vet prescribing a very…

That's a pretty accurate conception. "I just used 'cock', what's another word that doesn't sound too silly?"

I was in a writing critique group for a while with a woman who wrote erotica and another who wrote humorous romance (both of whom are now published authors with multiple book deals, though sadly not me). I don't write either erotica or romance. One thing is that there is just so much sex that you get tired of using…

I did ask. :)

You drink 25 cups of water a day???? Don't you have to go to the bathroom a lot?

In my house, that kitty face is called "concentration face".

I teach a course on Cultural Diversity for a large national online school, and believe me, people are ignorant. One of my favorite questions was "Did the Indians have weapons before the White people came?" Ummm....

Thank you, friend. I came here just for the Jackie Jormp-Jomp.

I use a diva cup and my cramps are a little worse when I have it in, compared to a pad. It's not super different, but it's noticeable. Also you have to mess around with your insides when you insert and remove the cup, so that's kind of a bummer when things are already achey down there.

Yep. I'm fat and muscular. Nobody is lining up to tell me how hot I am.

Classes with the old ladies are the best. They will make you feel so good about yourself. I took a class once where one of the ladies was so impressed that I could stand on one foot in order to put my shoe on the other foot! Once you feel a little more confident about the general poses, it'll be easier to go into more…

I was a dancer growing up, and I've been doing yoga for ten years. I'm also fat. Try it, seriously - I've had really nice experiences (only tried a Bikram course once, though, and didn't really get into it). There are awesome teachers out there that will not judge you. Often community center classes are great for…

I have a friend with serious back issues who does Bikram. I really worry that it makes her push herself too hard, but she's been doing it for years and it seems to help her function without pain in a way that other classes haven't done. But of course because she isn't progressing in skill (due to the aforementioned…

I have a yoga instructor with abs like that. She teaches the intermediate and advanced classes and can make you feel like your abs are trying to flee your body but never breaks a sweat herself. It's her only form of exercise, but she teaches multiple classes a day - and she's a raw foodist so I'm sure she has like 5%…

40 percent?? Yikes. I'm white and I do have non-white friends. I've pretty much always had at least one non-white friend, people I met in the normal ways in Girl Scouts and school and college and work. But I gotta say, if I had grown up in a place with a different racial composition, I guess I could pretty easily be…

Yeah, yoga doesn't burn calories like other types of exercise do, but it is great for building muscle and there are health benefits in stress reduction. It's a good part of an overall workout plan, but it's hardly a calorie shredder. I love yoga, so I do cardio and weight training so that I can do better in yoga…