You only get one chance to deliver a sweet burn in life, but if you do it right, once is enough.

I’m so sorry that happened to you, but glad you’re making progress through therapy now - even if it’s the stage where you feel inexplicably worse because you can name/quantify some of the damage. You have every right to be angry.

Good friends of mine met in high school but were long-distance all the way through college. They made sure to see each other 1x month, splitting the costs of airfare totally evenly no matter which one was flying out, and they talked on the phone every night before bed even if it was just, “Had a long day, really miss…

It’s very, very strange that she’s asked you (multiple times!) to move closer and that she wants to test you out as a roommate (with a winky face!). Does she know that you’re married? If so, her behavior is really outlandish. It’s pretty clear that she’s flirting with you, but it would be an honest mistake if she at…

I second what sweetemotion said: high thee to the Internet! You can stay in your underwear, keep eating onion rings, and knock out a profile that will snag you a man. Pro tip: Be hilariously up front about the fact that you sometimes spend Saturday nights eating onion rings in your underwear while watching L&O, but…

Thank you for bringing this into my life.

For the record, and IMO, you’ve been handling this thread with a lot of dignity. The way people are laying into you and putting words in your mouth is just bemusing. Kudos to you for handling it as well as you have been.

Wow, interesting. I guess my perspective is that representation of WOC is a step in the march towards equality, rather than a celebration of equality achieved. Lupita Nyong’o has talked more than once about the impact that seeing dark-skinned black women in the public spotlight had on her own self-confidence, and the…

Basically the man was a maddening contradiction of espousing personal freedoms on the one hand while at the same time being a supporter and benefactor of our peculiar institution.

This is so doable I don't even know where to begin. First off, if you can write well in English, that's probably going to be your biggest selling point abroad; working for a non-profit in a non-English-speaking country will only be possible if you speak the local language, and working for an NP or higher ed. in…

So I’d read about Mad Anthony but hadn’t looked too deeply into his home. Turns out I was mistaken - he lived closer to Philly. Either the bat tunnel is REALLY long or Wayne Mansion would have been built by his descendants. It’s a lot more humble than the DC version: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waynesbor…

If you compare the terminology for race issues and gender issues, the terms for someone who endorses the status quo and opposes equality are racist and sexist. We don’t have a good term for someone who actively works to create racial equality; that person is usually a “civil rights activist” or “community organizer”…

Ugh, what a shitty situation. No judgment on you at all, just hugs of support. As for advice, I’d suggest making two lists, a Prediction and a Plan. In your Prediction, write down all the things you expect to happen - she’ll get her tattoo, her friends will take her money, she’ll use your sympathy for her son to wear…

I think it’d be totally reasonable to say, “I hope I never say anything disrespectful about the military, but if I ever do, please let me know that I offended you so that I can try to understand your perspective.” If he's really a great guy, he'll appreciate how hard you're trying. If a guy said something along those…

I am descended from Mad Anthony Wayne, an officer in the American Revolution with a penchant for leading bayonet charges in the dark.

Oh, but he’s extremely competent! Never misses a beat, never has an awkward moment...

I've encountered some very shady taxi situations pretty much everywhere I've lived/visited. Examples:

Badass. I read this in my best Dos XX voice. “I don’t always puke myself, but when I do, I prefer to be flying a helicopter.”

Oh how perfectly awful. I would like that man to lose his license; no one that dismissive should be in the healing field.

Anyone who works with kids and doesn’t respond to bathroom/sick warnings like a 5-alarm fire deserves to be puked on. Kids don’t know their bodies well enough to give you 20 minutes warning; if a kid says “I’m sick” that puke is already locked and loaded.