Yes! I’m grateful to everyone who has shared their stories and thoughts. Clearly, this is something that isn’t generally part of the conversation around rape, and maybe it should be. I’m a little more than a year out from my experience, and it’s interesting how my feelings about the assault and how I relate to it…

Wow, I was wondering this exact question just this morning. I don’t know why my personal number of partners was on my mind, but it was, and I wondered whether my rapist counts. For myself, I don’t think so, but that’s something for everyone to decide for her/himself.

I don’t know what Columbus Circle means, but I like that you called it out. Feel better!

THOSE FEETSIES!!!!

Yep, I’ve picked up a FB stalker on my public author page (and I discovered today that he’s following me on Twitter now, too—joy!). I am very glad to have a pen name between supremely midlist me and the internet’s crazies who might want to show up IRL. Most people who contact me are lovely, lovely, lovely. But some…

Nooooooooo, Blake, whyyyyyy did you dooooo thaaaaaaat? You’ve brought shame to our nation.

And that’s some fine portmanteauing, good ma’am or sir. 10 points to Gryffindor!

That’s a pretty apt comparison. My husband wonders what I see in my cat. I ADORE him, and he’s just not that into me.

Aw, I’m happy for you! My cat is ... fond of me, I think. But he doesn’t love me. Despite buying him the fancy food and the nice treats and lavishing him with belly rubs on demand, he’s pretty distant, not a lap kitty at all. It breaks my heart a little that my pet love is largely unrequited. Fantasizing about a…

My life would be 150% better if a penguin loved me.

... I touched Hammurabi’s Code in Paris. It’s one of my biggest shames and biggest thrills.

While I may not have the words to adequately describe the ineffable essence of a bay leaf, I can tell you about its absence. No bay leaf in a soup or stew translates to a final dish that is hollow, the tongue registering emptiness where a full-bodied gustatory experience was meant to be.

It’s a very Mormon turn of phrase. (I’m ex-mo)

Oh, ok. Thanks for the info.

I don’t understand this “Drumpf” thing. Why is this suddenly popping up?

I wonder, as well. Rehab’s gonna be tough.

Very Goopy detail, isn’t it?

Woooow. That’s a big one!

Yoko Ono is more magical than the offspring of a unicorn bred with a liger.

Agree, and thank the powers that be for that. Diana taught us all a valuable / tragic lesson.