Hey thanks for your response... I think we agree more than not. Regarding my LTR, we are as married as can be without the paperwork (and approaching 20 yrs together). We are working on it, but it's going to be a long road for us to get back to where I'd like it to be. He's more content/less willing to really dig deep…

Whoa there I'm not getting a rape culture message from #2 at all. She's not saying he's OK to force himself on his wife for sex — they need to talk about it, see a counselor, try some other things. They have to figure it out, together. Because it is not fair for one partner to be denied sex and intimacy. And six years…

This sums it up perfectly. Thank you for my laugh of the day.

I've worked with many chefs, and they are nearly to a one obsessive, crazy, distracted, often mean and egotistical. It's a personality type, for sure. I also think it takes that kind of a person to be successful in the business at anything above a mom and pop place. There are a few exceptions, and those guys (and they…

Details! I need details! (I'm so ashamed to crave them).

It's been fun reading all these crushes! I think my earliest was Bobby Sherman. David Cassidy, Davey Jones, Bjorn Borg (I used to fantasize that he and I double dated with Chris Evert and Jimmy Connors, who were a couple then). Oh, then there's Robert Plant, Chad Everett, James Franciscus (anyone remember the show…

I think it's so important for women to feel empowered to fix their own stuff. Started when I was single when there was no one else (male or female) to help, and continues in couplehood, as my partner gets afraid of breaking/trying things sometimes and I am fearless. I am usually the project leader on things, because…

this is the funniest thing I've read this week. Bravo/a.

Excuse me? I'm as married as married can be for 15+ years, without the paperwork. Own a house together, shared family holidays, tragedies and milestones, our respective blood nieces/nephews call us "aunt" and "uncle", healthcare proxies, the works.

That sounds harrowing. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and glad that you're alive to share the experience.

That sounds harrowing. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and glad that you're alive to share the experience.

I can't help but not like Martha. Her striving for beauty and perfection is admirable, if mostly impossible to match. If you can make things look/taste/function better, why not? I also like that she is reviving skills like "homekeeping" that everyone used to know how to do.

Love this attitude! I went to Catholic school for 12 years, full uniform, and I'm convinced my passion for awesome shoes and bright sox stems from then as those were the only 2 sartorial outlets allowed to us. I still twitch when I see certain patterns of plaid.

Good grief! I'm known as someone who doesn't have much of a sense of humor... but you, roddyj12, really do not. She's the author's *imaginary* girlfriend... they can live anywhere, do anything. That's how imagination works.

I will always love Madonna. I guess because I so identified with her when she came up, as we are about the same age. I wanted to be her. She is a great entertainer. So what if she's looking a little grizzled in her own way (and I say that with love and not snark) — you can't fake that energy and body at her age. I…

Agreed! And pro tip: add about 2 tablespoons of vinegar (I'd use apple cider vinegar) to everything in the pot. Let it sit for about 1/2 hour, then cook. The vinegar helps to draw the calcium and other minerals out of the bones, making it even more nourishing. It can even cook longer, on low heat. Ditto for chicken…

I'm making this dish as we speak: Mashed Sweet Potatoes w/Sweet and Sour Walnuts. One of the first times I went to my bf's sister's house for Thanksgiving, she served candied yams from a can topped with marshmallows, which to me is what I imagine is served in Hell. So I took control of the sweet potato situation and…

OK this cock-loving hetero female is crushing big time. I've always been a little tingly about androgynous looking women, if at all. There's something about that feminine boyishness that's really captivating and sexy to me, and I think it takes a certain kind of confidence to pull it off successfully. And I think it's…

OMG this pic brings it all back! I loved and identified w/Scully back then. I was much more buttoned up, style- and personality-wise, and loved her brainpower. And of course I LOVED Fox Mulder, and still can never get enough David Duchovny, no matter how messy his personal life or skanky Californication gets.

Is it pathetic that I first thought Christ the Redeemer was a rapper, whom I may have confused with Cedric the Entertainer... no it's getting worse.