They don’t just stay at home, they join churches that actively fight against the right to birth control. You know, because of the nice sense of community for the kids. Half the moms I know in my rich spoiled white person neighborhood belong to a church like that, even though they don’t agree with those views.

I just don’t understand how, in 2015, we are still fighting for access to birth control. I just can’t comprehend this.

Custom of the Country is so brilliant!! I can tell you so much about that novel I read 10plus years ago and zero about Freedom, I read 4 years ago.

Hahahahahahaha I forgot about that! Remember how the dude’s indie rock band was called Walnut Surprise?

I could probably submit one of these about myself. Many years ago when Subway sandwich shops were rocketing to the top of the national consciousness with the “Subway diet” I stopped in one day to eat with my family. I was a teenager and was waiting behind my family not really paying attention until I got up to the…

She’s very like the cold, distant mother I had. I have ambivalent feelings about both.

Thank you for this. This is a very triggering time for me and what with all the appreciate-your-wonderful-mother stuff floating around it’s nice to be acknowledged.

I can’t even start to say. I’ve typed out 5 different things and it just doesn’t.

Don’t know if it will help you, but one of the things I do when I start to spiral into guilt is to ask myself, “how could you make Mom happy?” I run through all the weird scenarios of what she THINKS she wants me to do, but it’s never enough. If I called her all the time, went to see her, etc., it would just enable…

Sammmme boat. Every card I’m like, “ummm, no.” Best part is, the woman who raised me, physically and emotionally abused me my entire childhood /teen years until I married at 20 just to escape her, the woman who flat out insisted when we tried group counseling that yes, it’s perfectly normal to argue with a 3 year old,…

Can I just add that I hate how everyone views abuse as some sort of Cinderella story? You HAVE to forgive; you need to get over it because you found a good man; you must function like someone who was not horribly abused for decades. Doesn’t work like that.

Please give me the strength. I’m browsing Jezebel from the bathroom I’m pretending to need to use while avoiding A Required Family Event.

My friend Iris took this photo and captioned it “When you hate Mother’s Day and this is the grocery store.”

I did this with my mother. She was a classic narcissistic personality, with all the fun gas-lighting and verbal / emotional abuse. She would say terrible things, deny saying terrible things, freeze me out for a while, and then come back for more. It was a vicious, vicious cycle, and at 34, I still struggle with…

YOU ARE NOT! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL AND LOVED.

Team of stylists or not, she is already up, smiling and doing her job. Respect.

Just to say it, so that it is said: the green parts of leeks are the very best stock ingredient. Also, hell with skimming. That fat is goddamn delicious.

Mr. Seaward works for Coca Cola. So I guess work depends on how much Coke products you all drink.

Have met the man many times, Bullock is awesome sauce. :)