Thank you. He did 2 years of JROTC in high school and thrived with the structure and clear-cut chain of authority and knowing what he’s supposed to be doing at all times. It’s the whole fighting-and-dying-in-bogus-wars thing that’s the sticking point for me. I worry for his safety, and I worry he’ll have to do things…

I feel you so much. Mine is 3 months from 18 and I have cried literal tears over how unaware and clueless he is. AND WE TOO HAVE TRIED. God, we’ve tried so hard. He “knows” everything about everything, though, and is continually bewildered when his “knowledge” doesn’t mesh with reality. He just started the process of…

Sadly (apparently), my only Wyoming experience is Jackson and Grand Tetons National Park for my sister’s wedding last year. The scenery was utterly breathtaking, and I squeed at every moose or elk sighting. The hipsters in town all had “The mountains are calling and I must go” tattoos. I daresay, most tourists don’t…

20th century Russia was pretty much the worst time and place to live and she got the full Monty. I’d be pissed about existence, too.

Damn, Koku, quit being such a crankypants. You were born into an autocracy. You witnessed your people overthrow the ruler of the world’s largest empire and begin a well-intentioned—if misguided—experiment in communism. You survived two world wars and the bleak times of the Cold War, saw the end of the Soviet Union and…

Watching June go Offred was like reading the end of 1984. Big Brother won (even if just temporarily), and it’s devastating to witness.

This sounds similar to A Room in Rome, which is NOT a complaint. I enjoyed that one, and this looks like it might be a winner, too.

Oh my god, she absolutely would.

How does one go about falling in with a wolf pack? I’d like to pass this information along to my daughter next time she threatens to run away from home because “EVERYONE HATES MEEEEEE!”

If this isn’t already in your life, you need this in your life:

A couple years ago, my dad did the Ancestry.com test, started getting matches for cousins he’d never heard of, and eventually found out his dad wasn’t his dad. His bio father was a man my grandmother had an affair with. Quite a shock for all involved, including the four new sisters he found. Unfortunately, all of the…

Of course we can! These dramatic sex fetishists are going to be the death of civilization.

And no one says we can’t have not-dramatic sex! Dramatic sex is not the only sex, people! Get your heads out of the clouds and back into the bed with the sweat and dust of honest sex between people who just want to make the post-apocalypse world better for the kids, you know? Not all the sex has to be against the…

A shot of the crowd behind my big head as the March was forming up (I was middle of the crowd-ish), and a closer look at the students at the front of the rally.

Columbia, SC

Right? That competitor doesn’t even make sense. The people who didn’t get raptured are the ones I want to hang around, and they’re the ones who are most likely to be useful in the post-apocalypse. We’ll need all those scientists AND bikers who know their way around a transmission. There won’t be any more cars rolling…

My husband (who grew up in northern WV, outer rim of Pittsburgh suburbs) once talked to Mr. Rogers on the phone and it’s one of the top moments of his life. He loomed large in the local lore. Everyone knew if you went trick-or-treating at Mr. Rogers’s house, you’d get a full-sized candy bar.

I gasped aloud when I saw it. It’s the Sophie’s Choice of my nightmares.

Considering the age to buy a handgun is 21, I have a hard time seeing the NRA having a leg to stand on here. This bill doesn’t stop kids from using guns, just from purchasing them—which is perfectly reasonable. Go suck an egg, NRA.