I had a similar reaction! It wasn’t something to which I’d paid much attention. I was raised nominally Catholic but haven’t been religious since adolescence. Mr. Sububi was raised in a mainstream/liberal Protestant denomination; he’s not especially religious either but was still a regular churchgoer when I met him. I…

That’s unbelievable. My MOH (my only attendant) was trying to conceive while we were planning the wedding. She asked what to do if she got pregnant. I told her we’d just find her a bigger dress.

I was three weeks short of 32. Go for it!

Yow. My mom was 68 when she did the MOTB thing on my behalf.

Thousand Island dressing plus hot sauce would be absolutely awesome on either a meat or veggie burger. I’ll have to whip up a batch of Three Mile Island burgers at home soon!

Naaaahhhh, you are but an egg. Happy birthday!

That actually sounds great, especially if there are spicy condiments on the sandwich.

I used to live near a vegetarian cafe that made awesome chickpea-walnut burgers. The dish was vegan as long as you didn’t order it with cheese; I’m amazed by how well they got the patties to hold their shape in the absence of eggs. Mr. Sububi and I, neither of us vegetarian, used to love those things doused with…

They sometimes look at me a little funny in coffee shops when I order a soy or almond milk hot chocolate with whipped cream on top. And I usually wind up explaining that I’m not vegan. I’m lactose-intolerant, so if I forget to carry Lactaid with me, I can’t drink more than a very tiny amount of milk. But whipped…

Huckabee is and always has been a clueless, self-important blowhard. He’s Donald Trump with more religion and less money.

Not mutually exclusive. Unfortunately, if we want them to destroy themselves, it’s not going to happen quickly.

Stories like this make me really glad that I got Hep A vaccine. Didn’t get it until I was 49; it was recommended because I was traveling to an area where it might have been a risk.

I’m sure my mother must have consumed at least six cups a day while she was pregnant with me. She had a heroic capacity for coffee.

Mine broke — painlessly, with very slight bleeding — the second time I had sex. We weren’t doing anything especially awkward (at least for two only very recent non-virgins); we probably just got our junk together at an angle that was conducive to cherry-popping.

This doesn’t surprise me. Everything that goes into a pressure cooker comes out with much more flavor. Everything that goes into a slow cooker comes out tasting like nothing.

That’s really sad. Stonewall was a historic event, and it really deserves a good film that will do it justice.

I’ve loved broccoli since childhood. Wasn’t until I was well into my fifties that I learned that some people, especially in childhood, perceive its taste as bitter. I thought this was weird, until I realized that I perceive the taste of chocolate cake as bitter. Not cocoa-bitter, which can be very pleasant for me, but…

I’m imagining one of these jerks asking a woman “Are you a cat lady?” and her asking him “Are you my alternative?”* And I have to say that cats have never sounded so good.

“Things our mothers and sisters had to hear” isn’t all that far from some white guy who thinks he can drop N-bombs because “I have black friends”.

Exactly. My husband and I have made some decisions knowing that they would decrease our income or our net worth. Some we were happy with, some we weren’t, some we’re still figuring out. We’re not rich and we never will be. But we don’t have kids or a mortgage (both by choice), so our options are different from those…