I’m not single, but this is a very rural place in France, and everyone knows each other. The police have been around (twice) and the mayor of our tiny village even came around in his mayoral sash and suit to let the guy know he needed to behave. But, you know, the neighbor is a guy of limited intelligence and…

That’s the dream.

Yeah, that’s one of those mistakes you only make once...

I’m struggling this week with a neighbor, a man in his 60s who has

I thought when I heard this on the radio that it was probably a DV situation. Guy rocks up to a hospital and kills a female physician in the parking lot, and then a couple more people for good measure? It just sounded so typical of an abuser hunting down a woman at her workplace.

AKA what happens when you cut out those ‘boring’ Home Ec courses in middle and high school.

I believe you. It’s still mixing, though, and not ‘cooking.’

“I’ve always been an entertainer,” says Chopra. “My home is always bustling with loved ones. I have a very close-knit set of friends and so does Nick and I like being a host.”

What an excellent idea for a broad research study - I wonder how you could get this in front of people who could make it happen.

Keep digging, buddy. Rock bottom has got to be down there somewhere.

Are you kidding with this comment on a page marking someone’s death by pneumonia-induced cardiac arrest? You need to do some soul-searching, as well as not spout uninformed crap. JFC

Haha, yeah, there’s that. Having tried one of these ridiculous cleanse tortures myself, I’m happy to say my entire family survived. I’m sad to say they are emotionally scarred for life by my mood swings from those two weeks.

“After the run-in with her niece, Viola decided to comfort herself with McDonald’s burgers and vodka.”
I’m just here to cosign this kind of self-care when arguing with family members. You gotta take care of yourself.

It’s shocking - we get slower, time gets faster.

My parents also divorced when I was very young - my father divorced several times thereafter. It doesn’t mean you can’t have a very happy relationship/marriage. That was their trajectory - yours is your own.

Congrats to you! And it’s true - time really does fly.

“Can you imagine 25 years of marriage, to one person, even Barack Obama? Or 25 years of anything?”

Oh, children. You don’t imagine the time. You imagine the things you’d like to do with your time. And then you try to do them.
(Just celebrated 26 years of marriage with Mr. UrbanAchiever and no, we didn’t imagine it. We…

Snickers gets a pass. But all the stuff listed above? Yikes.

Pretty sure trick-or-treating in the US is mainly perpetuated to 1) get US kids hooked on crappy American candy at a young age and 2) keep people talking about crappy American candy, which is, objectively, really crappy.

That’s the thing about skeletons in the closet - sometimes it turns out they’re stronger than you think...