A room full of guinea pigs eating watermelon rinds is the best noise ever. Like rain, but more cute.

My problem with Old Navy is the inseam. I'm 5'5", so pretty average, but the regular inseam wraps around my damn foot. I could sew them up and have footie jeans! And finding anything in a plus size with a "short" inseam in a cut that fits my body is challenging. I wanted grey jeans so badly when they were…

Better than dairy goat shows where they go on and on all day about "capacious mammaries."

I was on a first date with someone who stopped in front of window display and said something like "When we live together, we'll have furniture like this." I thought he was just being ridiculous and playing up the awkwardness of a first date for laughs. Turns out he was really that controlling and never called me…

I'd like to see as a topic people who loved their fiance but hated the ring and how they handled it. I never liked mine and intimated it to an older coworker who admitted she never liked hers either. She'd been married and wearing it for decades and that always struck me.

What is the technical term for the line where "Dog" is? Is it just "caption" or is there a fancier industry name for it?

Men aren't usually the ones who give up their identity as a whole person when they marry, so yes, I feel like there needs to be some balancing in that equation. Kudos to any woman who can marry and not feel like the whole culture is against them having a separate identity but I very much felt like as hard as I fought…

I guess any time I've seen it done, the woman was way more eager to be married than the loser guy and I feel like it feeds the stereotype that marriage benefits women more and men have to be dragged into it kicking and screaming. I'm not saying all men who can't afford a ring are losers. I think no rings, if a…

The part about a Valentine's Day proposal with which I take offense is the idea that an engagement ring is a gift. It's not a gift. It's a request for the gift of my devotion. Granted, that's a dubious gift for which you're asking and I question your sanity, but still don't expect me to be excited you got me a gift…

Blindfolds are okay though, right?

Once at a State Fair a friend and I did some creative parking in the exhibitor lot. Our goody-two-shoes friend insisted on parking in a clearly marked space for which she didn't have to move any barricades. All day she chided us for our crazy driving and parking. When we were done with our show, there was a nasty…

Do you mean pictures of his pet or pictures of himself in the guinea pig onesie?

I absolutely love shoes and am known for owning cute shoes; however, I was married barefoot. No, I was not pregnant. I was just OVER IT by the time bridal shoe shopping came around. I was kind of the worst bride ever in a very nonchalant non-bridezilla-y way. Shoes just seemed like a detail only I would care about…

Have you ever met dog show people?

It probably says a lot about my lack of morals, but the thing that bugs me most about this story are all the comments that are all "OMG, kids having sex!!!!" I went to middle school in the '80's and this behavior was not uncommon. The fact people 30 some-odd years later are horrified by the concept says that as a…

There was a kid at my middle school who drove legally. Mine went from 6th to 8th grade. Obviously he had been held back a few times.

Thank you for expressing why I stopped watching the show. Apparently I'm less patient than you are.

When I was younger, many older women (coworkers, other friends' relatives, etc.) strongly suggested new brides keep savings hidden from her husband "just in case." I just see too much room for financial abuse if either partner is not allowed his/her own money. Handing over the reigns of my financial well-being to a…

The plot of The Boy Next Dooris my nightmare and I'm not even a teacher. I think it plays into the fear many women have (get culturally beat into them?) that once you express yourself sexually there will be villainous consequences...even in a situation where the balance of power would seem to be in her favor.

I graduated in '91 and I remember there being a scandal about some girl photographed at a party performing a sex act in a shower. It's a super, super common thing and I agree that we should be more open with children. I started talking to my sister about consent when she was twelve and that was way too late. She'd…