Are you part of the problem, or are you part of the solution? 

The only Tyrone I’ve ever known was a surfer-type white boy with longish floppy blonde hair and wore puka shells.

I thought he had burned the “worst” of her journals? And I haven’t read the 2000 edition. I read the earlier edition back in the late 80s and I’m not sure if I can go through that again. I haven’t read much about reinventing Hughes, but I did read Birthday Letters and felt kind of shitty for bagging on him for years.…

Never thought I’d be happy to live in Kansas, home of zero trump properties.

I thought after Birthday Letters we knew the real Ted Hughes, which wasn’t so bad?

Sometimes you just have to stay in bed. Or some weeks. You are likely having a normal reaction to an insane world.

If I were Jeff Bezos, I’d have a weekly lottery where I just paid off people’s student loans.

Here’s hoping for *no* metamorphosis of your being.

Can’t decide if she’d love or hate me wishing that her memory be a blessing. I wrote a Books column in an alternative weekly about 25 years ago and even though my editor called me “a hairy-legged feminist,” I really enjoyed Wurtzel’s writing and considered a true form of feminism, an opinion with which I know many…

One of the most delightful moments of my life was seeing The Farewell with friends who immigrated from China laughing their heads off at the familiarity of the family dynamics.

If it involves money from the trust fund it’s a trust fund issue. Most public pension systems allow erroneous payments to be repaid in minuscule amounts, usually without interest.

People, this is a trust fund. What you are owed is mandated by law. If someone is paid erroneously, they must return the funds to the trust. It’s called fiduciary duty. If you get extra, that means it has to come from someone else. Try paying benefits to a million people and NOT have an error. Not unusual to have to…

Chanukah sameach from me, the cool mom, who got her kid Golf Wang socks for Night 2. :-)

I hope that wasn’t a Wilton GEL frosting writer, Damon, or you’re going to be as frustrated and angry as I was after discovering GEL frosting does not harden. EVER.

This. For years I’ve tried to explain to my husband why I need him to be there for me after I was raped rather than focus on taking out the guy. We can’t talk about it, which means it’s going to ruin our lives one day.

Agreed. And despite Ms. Summers’ attempt to confuse him with other lesser Hollywood men, my very snarky/picky teenage daughter saw him in that movie and declared him hot stuff. 

I was in NYC for Thanksgiving and did most of those things, which were magical to me, a kid from Kansas, but I will never, ever forget the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The big float was New Kids on the Block and girls followed it through the entire route! 

Maybe she had her people clean the seat before she sat down, I say, hopefully???

Our country is a cesspool of corruption, my kid is failing math, and last night I dreamed Nazis broke into my grandparents’ house to look for me, but Jesus gave me chubby, silver Kanye West and Twitter to make up for it.

I have never seen such a beautiful and unique Chanukah card!