I’m sorry I annoyed you. I wrote the post before I saw the “true story” requirement and there’s no way to delete a post. Just got excited for the tradition. :)

Nowhere in the article do you mention the movie being referenced. Are you just assuming your readers already know?

Thanks for the note.

I actually did stumble onto her on fb a few years ago when she liked a post of a mutual friend. I agonized for a few days before going for it. She didn’t reply to my friend request. I waited a few weeks, and then in a fit of frustration, I messaged her. “I understand if you never want to speak to me again after this,”…

Update: I’ve been staring at that old newspaper photo on and off ever since that day last week - trying to will it into making some kind of sense. After posting this story, I felt like I had to look at it one more time. I just realized - that doll the little girl is holding? Is my doll, the one my aunt gave me.…

The house where I grew up was pretty new - way newer than any of the other houses on the block. A typical one-story ranch house that you might see in any stretch of American suburbia. Likewise, all the furniture in the house was pretty par for the course. My room had a little-kid bed, a nightstand, a table and chairs…

This episode of Boy Meets World was the stuff of my nightmares for years as a kid. I was not prepared for the scare.

Thank you for providing a clearer and more consise summary of this article. I was too confused to be offended.

He’s a wild west sheriff.

Thanks very much for your reply. Honestly, the only thing I really care about is that he can feel creatively fulfilled in whatever he’s doing (he’s an indie game designer, and a bit of a ‘work defines me’ artist type). I want to be able to support a family, and I make enough to do that. If he can take care of a kid, a…

I’m sorry if this is an intrusive question, but are you a man or a woman? I’m a woman who’s the principal breadwinner in my marriage, and our tentative understanding is that my husband will be a stay-at-home dad when we eventually have kids. I’d love to hear positive anecdotes about that kind of arrangement working…

“Setting the standard means defining how well that work is performed on your own, rather than waiting for someone else to do it for you. If you only need to be 80% accurate, but you’re consistently reaching 90%, you’ve set a new standard for how your work should be done.”

Really? I’d be nervous to go to the police station for something like this. You don’t think the cops would be annoyed by a random woman stopping by for a friendly chat about real estate while they’re trying to work? Should I bring cookies?

Urban Decay’s Electric palette got marked down to $24 on a variety of sites, including Sephora! I just ordered it and am very excited. I only wear eyeshadow along my lower lashline (and usually only one color at a time) so I’m only slightly worried about looking like a deranged blacklight clown.

Well, yes. People don’t have the right to decide for themselves all the terms of their employment. Because we have things like minimum wage, 40 hour weeks, child labor laws...

My husband and I did an elaborate choreographed thing set to the opening theme song from the video game Chrono Cross.

Try Mac Cyber and Matte Royale!

Check out the novel I wrote for the other user on this thread!

I got my start through Soko Glam too! I feel grateful for the intro, but I probably wouldn’t buy from there again. You pay a high markup for the curation and there are some questionable choices in there (in my opinion). Check out the K-beauty starter guides I posted for the other user on this thread.

My inner K-beauty fan wants to scream “YES ABSOLUTELY HERE ARE ALL THE THINGS THEY USE THEY ARE AMAZING”, but then I remind myself that skincare is super your-milage-may-vary and that the things I use are not necessarily great for everyone. One of my favorite K-beauty bloggers has a series of starter kit posts for…