So cool, thanks for sharing!

What in the incredible everloving fuck.

LOL to that last bit. Yeah, I have considered that advantage, um, sacrifice! It all sounds very lovely, and Cuba especially. ¡Felicitaciones!

I had a moment a few years ago when I was at a bachelorette weekend with an incredibly close group of girlfiends. They’re all Christian and the bride was marrying a Muslim man. We got to talking about faith, and she was saying how she didn’t really care, because they’d give the children each parent’s perspective and…

It’s funny: I work with a ton of very smart tech people in the DC area, so I default into thinking that they are “like me” and thus likely to be agnostic or atheist; I’m always shocked to find out that they are in fact religious, and then I have to remind myself that I am in the DC “area”, which means Virginia, which…

You’re my kind of people, fellow English major & science geek. Have you read this quote from Feynmann? It is my favorite:

Thanks so much for starting this thread! I’m way late to the party, but I enjoyed reading everyone’s responses. Here’s my take on it:

That’s a very astute and insightful realization - that your brand of healing and his aren’t necessarily the same. It sounds like you genuinely care for him and you have a good skill set of listening, thinking, and compassion. I’m sure you’ll make the best decisions you possibly can. Good luck to both of you!

Ooh destination wedding. How did people react to that? I have a mixed bag of friends including people who can afford such things and people who can’t; I’d LOVE to get married on a tropical beach, but I worry that people would feel obligated to come and then resentful that they were spending so much money on the event.…

That is a movie where it is not only okay, but encouraged to watch by yourself. ;) You will be glad you’re alone after the finale dances.

Obviously you’re gonna go see a doctor ASAP, but if it helps with the worry in the meantime, I found a lump in my breast a few years ago, freaked out for a very long time bc I was uninsured, and when I finally got into a clinic for an exam, it was just some stupid benign cyst. So: be vigilant and thorough and all…

Seconding everything the others have said, plus: take classes! I’ve made friends through Spanish classes (both other students and the teacher, who is the same age as the rest of us). Yoga classes are good, but only if the class size is small enough that you can recognize people’s faces from week to week; my local…

The second someone says they feel suicidal, they need help. Everything else needs to wait until he gets into therapy. All of your other concerns are legitimate and worth addressing, but nothing is as urgent as getting him into treatment.

Man, fuck phone companies. I had a motherfucker of a time with T-Mobile a few years back and I would rather light my hair on fire than go back to their customer service.

Yep. Whenever someone throws out “states rights!” (or, God forbid, tariffs), I just ask them, “states right to do WHAT?” There is never a good answer. It was all about protecting the culture and economy of slavery.

Put Benadryl in his cereal on election day.

You left Carson CONSPICUOUSLY out of this Civil War debate...

“Santa is my friend” was the clear winner for me.

It’s hard to out-Arizona Arizona, but I think Florida could do it.

Tell your son I would vote for him! Also, I’m so happy that he got a gold star for listening - it’s very important to listen to other people, and being a good listener would make him a great president!