Even as someone who at one point was going to be a nun, I fully believe that churches should only be able to claim tax-free status on the portion of their ‘business’ that is charitable. Aka, you have a food bank and offer free counseling? That portion runs tax-free. You charge $1000 for weddings at the alter? You’d…

Also, if they DO find out who sent this letter, they need to sue that person for the damage to their property’s value.  If anyone were to try to sell their home, this incident is going to come up first in any online search of the neighborhood. 

He’s ALL OVER The Root, too.

I thought the same thing.  I knew my stylist had been out of work for three months, and with the social distancing keeping the salon at 50% capacity at all times, the additional costs for masks and supplies that I’m sure the salon was passing on to her, etc, it felt important to up the tip to help out.  So I gave a…

The only reason I knew there were Big Boys in Ohio in addition to Michigan was that when I was a kid once we stopped at one.. and discovered that the sauce they put on the Big Boy burgers there was tartar sauce and not Thousand Island. Seriously, WTF, Ohio?

Personally, I’ve found the key to that is to train the dog to pay attention to YOU as you open the door, not to what’s outside. Whether it’s shaking a can of marbles to make noise to get his attention, or to give him the treat just before you open the door with a command to sit and stay, distracting him away from the…

I can almost guarantee I read Sandra Brown’s “Send No Flowers” even though the description made me roll my eyes so hard I think they’re stuck in the back of my head.

I swear by these bra liners:

I hated watermelon when I was little. Fought and fought over eating it, but my mom wasn’t allowed to have it when she was little (long story involving my grandfather being pinned down in a rotting watermelon field by enemy planes), so she thought everyone must adore it. I HATED it. Told her it made my eyes hurt, and…

Shout out for Service Merchandise, the place that existed almost solely for wedding registry purchases!

This feels totally cool if you’re having only a wedding registry and this is basically taking the place of the gifts people would bring to the weddding, to me. Basically you’re saying, “don’t give us cash, give us the dumb stuff we want for fun.” I’ve had friends, though, who’ve gotten married after more than a decade…

TBH, I’m more willing to accept a housewarming registry than a wedding registry for a couple that’s lived together for a decade.  Like, what, you want me to get you NEW towels?  You’re 35 years old and have two kids together, get your own damn towels.

I got Ted from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. WTF?

“Okay, so your soulmate is a little goofy, but he’s also destined to save the world with his music so — quite the catch you got!”

Or maybe just that they should use some of the billions they’re getting on training rather than on literal tanks and other bullshit so they can play Rambo.

So, my nephew had a hamster when he was maybe 10? It disappeared. My sister figured one of the dogs ate it, or it died somewhere (gross) but whatever. My nephew, though, insisted he heard it inside the walls. He’d swear he heard it scrabbling about. He even made holes in his walls to try to get to it, and made my…

Hahaha. This reminds me of my dog, Max (may he rest in peace), who I saw standing at the doorwall a few weeks after I’d adopted him, with a... leaf? dangling from his mouth? The goofball! He stared at me like he was expecting some sort of reaction. I stared back. He did the canine version of a shrug, walked a few feet…

I’ve been pulled over maybe 5 times in 30 years, and three of them have invovled the officer suggesting I could avoid the ticket if I’d just “be nice.”

It makes me wonder if any women who’ve ever been pulled over for speeding have NOT had the experience of an officer suggesting they could avoid a ticket by “helping an officer out” — on your knees or your back.

You just made me cheer out loud. I work with someone who is constantly using the term “infer” incorrectly. It makes me insane. He’s even worse about it, though, using it as an active verb.  “Can you take a look and infer the details here.”  Honestly he uses it in such random ways I’m not even sure what he imagines the…

Julianne, happy to discuss the journalistic details of this if you are free.