My mom and grandmothers wear their hair natural and short - I've never seen my mom with relaxed hair outside of pictures. She's been natural at least since college. So they were supportive. After I big-chopped, one of my favorite great-aunts pulled me aside and said "Don't cut your hair again." The stylist working in…

When I went natural, the only people who gave me shit about it were other black women. It was so depressing.

Nope! Cute boyshorts.

My high school choir director is married to a former student 25 years his junior (his second wife. His kids -one from each marriage- are about 25 years apart.) They were married already when he was teaching me (his second son was born my sophomore year) so I don't know the whole story, but I heard they got together…

Three. I mean, I wasn't going to North Dakota anyway, but still.

He did an interview or two when Prison Break was on where he said he wasn't gay and looked forward to having a wife and family or something along those lines, so there was a point where he wasn't publicly out. One of my gay male friends was like "Pfffft, he's gay" but he assumes every man he deems fuckable is gay so…

Me too. I dry with a diffuser, otherwise it takes a full day. Even when I Big Chopped and it was very short, it still took forever.

I sometimes listen to a radio station in the mornings where a caller and a DJ are asked a series of trivia questions and if the caller gets more right than the DJ, the caller wins tickets. If the DJ wins, he either keeps the tickets until someone beats him or, if he's feeling generous, will just give them to the…

My company's global headquarters are in the UK. One of my counterparts just came back from maternity leave; I had never even heard of her. I've been there about nine months. I was in a meeting (that happened to be all women; only one of us - not me - has a kid) and asked who she was, and my colleague C was like, "Oh,…

My best friend's shower was like that. Her sister threw it and my friend vetoed any shower games. (And thank God. Sniffing melted chocolate in diapers? The fuck?). She wanted a relaxed, casual atmosphere. Her shower was really an excuse for day drinking delicious white sangria and eating pastries and sandwiches, and…

He seems like a genuinely nice guy who seems to really love his wife. I remember a photo I saw of them on their North American tour; she was drinking something and her back was to him, and he was standing behind her looking at her adoringly - there's really no other word for it. He had this little half smile on his…

There were cops in my screening of The Dark Knight Rises but that's because it was the day after the Colorado massacre.

For me, it was Minka Kelly as Jackie. I adore Friday Night Lights, but Minka Kelly cannot act. But (spoiler) she only has one line (three words) and a crying scene, so she couldn't really fuck up too badly.

Mine too. Maybe he even owns the bar - I know a retired guy (he's turning 70 this year) who owned a bar for 30 years and tended it all that time. He and his wife raised 4 kids - he was home with them during the day when they were little because he mostly worked at night.

And this didn't embarrass the kid? I would have died of shame if my parents had tried this (which they wouldn't have; they'd have told me to get my shit together or come home). This is what I never understand about helicopter parenting - the fact that kids seem to be cool with parental behavior that would have gotten…

My longest relationship was with a man 10 years older, but he was less mature than I and in a WAY worse place than I financially so if anything, the power imbalance was more in my "favor," which he had issues with. It didn't really feel like a huge chasm though. I could maybe go five years younger, but men in their…

Yeah, she's stunning and her boys are adorable.

Or Victoria Rowell's daughter, who is blonde and fair-skinned and looks phenotypically white.

When my boss talks about documenting procedures, she says "If we all won the lottery and quit, would whoever they hired be able to come in and start working?" She says straight-up that she wouldn't even come in - she'd call in and be like "Um, good luck!" and then travel around the world. I like my job and so does…

One of the things I liked about my old part-time survival job was that they knew it was just a job to everyone who worked there, hourly and salaried, because how could it not be? The turnover there was huge on both sides - students would graduate, people using it as a stopover would find better jobs, etc. And they…