Soup is actually my go to breakfast food. I hate most sugary breakfast foods and can't stand the smell of eggs in the morning. My freezer is constantly full of various batches of homemade soup so that even when i am too sicksick to cook, the soupy goodness still flows in or household.

Hey! Leave Foucault out of this!

Makayla (and other spellings) is actually a derivation from Michael aka "who is like god." So that name has plenty of potential ego issues and existential angst, but no "son of" conundrums there. Your criticism doors apply to most of all the other Mac/Mc/MakMak names, so carry on.

My sister's cat is also Stupid! Sometimes the name just fits.

My parents consider an offer to play Monopoly to be a declaration of divorce. The game in question was played between them 30 years ago, but they are still touchy about it.

I did not know I was something out of my life until now. That was awesome.

You are not alone.

Periods are no one's favorite things until you have that first pregnancy scare. Then you learn to appreciate periods reeeeeeal quick.

Understood, but if the participation of Canada and other NATO nations remains, as you say, basically symbolic that puts the USA in a shitty position. Yes, we have the ordinance to act unilaterally but for the health of international relations the US has to stop acting unilaterally and work within coalitions. You say…

Thank you for the recommendations. I've been living with this for half my life (was diagnosed with fibro at 14, am 30 now with brand new RA and Ehlers-Danlos diagnoses). Through my twenties I coped by going braless and doing lots of yoga and free weight training but my body is changing with the onset of arthritis in…

I think we are kind of agreeing here, so I am not sure why you said "no" to start with. My point was that Boko Haram considers the fathers, as well as the women, to be fair game as heretics or non-muslims. Hence, fanatics like them can justify anything.

Oh I wish that could work, but I'm pretty sure that fanatics like this can justify anything.

Yup. J.K. Rowling managed to find the one thing worse than the banality of evil. Umbridge is the kitten kitsch of evil.

Well in that case, I wish you luck in avoiding haunted places. Sincerely. A "whole world of nope" is pretty much how my father still feels about it, twenty years later. He was the last holdout nonbeliever in the family and consequently was the only adult in the family treated to a full body apparition.

One night, now…

We had a friendly ghost too! We called her Mary, which was the name of both the wife and the daughter of the Victorian man who built the house. Once we started calling her by this name, she stopped being so spooky and instead became really interactive. She would tuck me in as child when I woke up in the middle of the…

Here is the thing about ghosts - it is perfectly rational not to believe in them but when you live with one, you quickly learn that there are some things you can not just chalk up to mental illness.

My entire family believed, like you seem to, that supernatural experiences had rational explanations. My parents were…

Do you really find it helps as a day to day thing? I wore a corset as part of a wedding recently, and in the month or so where i wore the corset for a few hours a week (to train in preparation for the marathon-like wedding day) I discovered that it seemed to help my fibro issues. Yet I have been hesitant to buy a…

I know nothing about the area you are talking about, yet I had to star this.

I never thought it before now, but I am sure I will in the future thanks to you. Your work here is done.