I’m so sorry—on multiple fronts. Very sorry for your loss, very sorry that your FIL had to go through that, and very sorry for all the extra levels of grief your MIL is giving you and your husband. Yes on the will: I have a friend whose father definitely intended everything to go to her, not to his estranged wife who…

I hadn’t heard the term “jammy” before, but we’ve been doing shoyu eggs, which are best when jammy. Boil eggs, cool, peel, then marinade in soy sauce + ginger + garlic (other stuff optional—you can find recipes). Then when you make your ramen, add desired vegetables (dried wakame is great and doesn’t go bad in these…

I agree. While she’s in the army, under his command, she takes notice that he’s pretty hot. But she won’t flirt because it would blow her cover, and I can’t think of anything he does during that time that would be inappropriate. She gets kicked out of the army, comes up with a plan to save the emperor, then gets Shang…

There are a couple measures I can think of that would distinguish between animals in regards to their suitability for food that aren’t entirely cultural. One is their intelligence—perhaps how close their intelligence is to human intelligence. Most human cultures frown upon eating humans (and even the cannibalistic…

But hey, it looks like they did pretty well on the wax figure of Evelyn Burdecki. Not sure why they posed it that way, though.

As someone who doesn’t know what a Houston Dash or a J.J. Watt is, I would read that headline and think, “They’re allowed to trade away their own players’ fiancees?!”

The last few years, my mom has made sugar cookies using her excellent collection of cookie cutters, and my brothers and I have decorated them with an assortment of sprinkles. No icing, just colored sugar and sprinkles for our designs. The trouble is, we’ve been upping our game each year, and it’s gotten to the point…

There was the “the United Shashes” video, where people speculated there may have been something loose in his dental work.

That’s so sad. Cancer doesn’t care age or other health or anything. Seriously, fuck cancer.

I’m so sorry for your loss. Yes, it was sad and strange to have Thanksgiving with all the other usual family there, but not my dad. Like we just forgot to bring him along :(

Thank you. That is good advice that I will consider. I’m sorry you lost your parents young. Every moment is so precious, so I am grateful for the time I did have with him.

Thank you. We were really so fortunate that the timing of the wedding worked out so well.

I’m responding to these weeks later, because at the time it was too hard to say anything more. But I just wanted to say that I really appreciate all your condolences, commiseration, words of encouragement, and advice. Thank you.

Yum, those look beautiful! I looooove maple! Over Thanksgiving weekend, my husband and I made maple-pecan doughnuts: raised (yeast) doughnuts, topped with maple icing and salted, toasted pecans. Salty with sweet, crunchy with soft—they turned out just right. For the icing, we dipped them in warmed (softened) maple…

I know someone who works at Pearl Harbor. He said that the alarm went off, and they barricaded themselves in a room and tried to turn the legs of a table into weapons. They didn’t know what was happening, no idea of exactly where the attack was or what the scale of it was (one attacker or multiple, what kinds of…

I’m so sorry. Must feel crazy as well as sad to have so many bad things happen on top of each other. I hope you get a break from anything else bad happening, with time to mourn--and recover.

Yeah, saying it was certainly a misstep—an unnecessary play on words that was in poor taste—but it’s not bullying unless Barron actually thinks he’s a baron or hopes to be a baron. You might hurt a 13-year-old’s feelings by saying they’ll never be a doctor or a football player or whatever they might want to be, but…

So you’re saying that people who support the rape exception do so because childbirth is a grueling punishment that only should be inflicted upon a person who chose to have sex. Sorry—correction: that should only be inflicted on a person with a womb who chose to have sex. If a person didn’t choose to have sex, or…

My dad, the best dad ever, passed away this week after bravely battling pancreatic cancer for over a year. We’d known for a month or two that there was only the tiniest chance that he’d survive more than a few months, but still, it happened so fast. Four weeks ago, he was at my wedding eating cake and making the…

That must be so tough. The heartbreak and anger are totally understandable. I hope things take a turn for the better for him.