Everyone liked that part. It was the feel-good event of the season.

That’s always the best part.

All I know is that with these hotflashes, all hot things turn into instant sweat. Maybe I’m not quite old enough yet for decimated tastebuds. Wow. Another thing to look forward to.

It was delightfully ridiculous. The whole outfit was this showy peach monstrosity with sequins that looked really out of place on a petite Japanese woman, but I loved it.

Hmmmmm, I wonder how there’s a difference between one’s agency to do something by one’s own choice and being required to do it for one’s job. Let me think on this for a bit, I’m sure I’ll figure out the difference somehow.

People have a lot of problems with Dear Prudence over at Slate and rightly so, in my opinion, but she writes a lot about this: the ongoing issue that toxic parents can be, whether it’s inviting them to your wedding, having them in your children’s lives, or dealing with their financial or health issues. It just never…

My first thought after reading your comment was “Holy shit, somehow your boyfriend and I have the same mother and family!”. My mother is incredibly manipulative and emotionally abusive (My therapist and I think it’s a mix of Borderline Personality and Alcoholism. fun) but rather than address it in a useful way, my…

I never get tired of this subject. (Not even just weddings, but cutting bad relatives out of our lives.) Out and about in in the world estranged adults of awful parents don’t have a lot of positive opportunities to talk about the estrangement, and it is so freeing to be able to be honest with our friends, coworkers,…

I wonder how different my great-grandmother’s life would have been if she’d had access to reliable birth control instead pumping out 13 kids in 15 years.

I was just about to say he meant “we need more white Christian* children”

Well...allow me to take a step back from Internet rhetoric for a second: I have zero issues with contraception. I was reading your comment to be about abortion. Different issue to me entirely. If contraception was your point...my apologies for the misunderstanding.

Please tell the knitters that an American internet stranger applauds them.

It will always be my favorite. Always.

I still love the guy give the pope a pizza

I grew up nearby with a Cambodian refugee. He, too, was taken in by a nearby Church in the 80s.

In the 1970s my parents’ church (where they attended not a church they ran or anything) sponsored six vietnamese families over three or four years. I remember that they found homes for them (mostly rentals and not always in great neighborhoods) with the help of church members and fully furnished all of the homes with…

That’s second cousins. I have some of those who are around my age too, we don’t make a big deal out of the degree. We’re all just cousins.

Although it doesn’t feel like it, you’re doing great! Maybe your therapist has some ideas about helping you feel better about your financial situation.

Excellent advice. I think primarily because it involves admitting that you’re a human being, and so are the people working to bring you your food. Everyone wins in that situation.

Of course he’s at training camp. It’s being held at Notre Dame, which is pretty much a safe haven for those suspected of sexual assault.