I don’t have a tiny house, but honestly, like FIRST OFF, I think most people, even in mansions, have heard something at one point in their lives and realized holy shit my parents, are doin’ it, LET ME DIE but also like I feel like you’re just like SEX IS NORMAL AND A LOT OF PEOPLE DO IT, end of story. It’s there in…

shhh by the end of that summer, I think I had a few friends reading Mists also.....

Ram’s Horn!! Or Leo’s Coney Island in Birmingham after a movie at the Palladium UGH!!! hahaha! We would hang at friends houses, my house had a pool, I was totally lame, my parents knew all my friends parents and we thought we were being bad but really we were the tamest kids of all time.

BUT THEN YOU ALSO GET THE BONUS OF GIGGLING ABOUT “wanna get Dick’s, teeheehehehe” I still can’t say it without a touch of the gigs.

You craft lovely sentiments. Since the Halo Top itself sucked, look at the bigger lesson you learned here.

I remember reading like...some short stories that came out like a year or so after Abhorsen, but GARTH NIX!! I’m going to have to smuggle into my YA section at the lib! If I remember, I saved that trilogy and it’s packed up somewhere at home.

I cried in the new Jurassic Park when the Super T-Rex or whatever beat up and killed all the gentle plant eaters, they go up to a struggling one and it like lifts up it’s head and just sighs and DIES. I also cried at Moana, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, okay? Everyone knows movies make me cry…

I remember reading Robin McKinley as a young person and really enjoyed the first time I could identify with Bad Ass Lady Hero in the Blue Sword and Hero and the Crown. Then I quickly jumped off the ledge and read fucking Mists of Avalon when I was like a freshman in high school. I also remember a trilogy called…

I think for my parents now being in a church where people voted for The Cheeto just because of the Republican party’s anti-choice and anti-woman rhetoric really really fucked my mom up and she’s like idk, kind of seeing much clearer where I was coming from, and ergo, the UUC search. But they just can’t let their idea…

Agree, 100%. I’m sure you know, a lot of the Catholic Charities work in Africa ended up being the HERE’S SOME CONDOMS, but shhhh because we are Catholic because A) AIDS/HIV was being ignored by so many other groups, and B) Women’s health. Really.

I will say as a kid I did not quite get communion and after having visited St. Peter’s in Rome and seen SOME BONES, I was like WTF are you guys doing AHHHHHHHHHHHH! I agree with your statements, for sure, and it really boils down to my parents were raised in the religion at this point veering too far off course would…

I’ve heard grumblings of a Social Justice conscious American Catholic Church as an answer to the slow changes in the current Roman Catholic church, something much more open and welcoming to the apparent 1/3 of young people who say “you hate my generation, no thanks,” but we will see. I know lots of Jesuits who are…

I wonder if it’s the nostalgia of doing the act of going to church. My own father has been Catholic his whole life and just at this point goes each week because to him it’s a relaxing thing. My parents searched for a Chill Church, my mom is even thinking about a UUC or something. It’s all about the community and…

It really sounds as though you have a nostalgic view of your religious upbringing. As a former Catholic myself, I understand the pull of sitting on a hard pew and just listening to mass and using that predictable hour as an almost meditative space outside of religion (IE I will accompany my family to Christmas mass…

I don’t know what Vancouver ended up passing, but I think they did something that the house has to be occupied or else a steep tax comes in...I’m not sure what though.

NO! But I am a fan of Pho King. HHEHHEHHEEH

Squirrel friend, I was in the same boat, I replied to your car reg earlier but I left the state. My partner got a job in Oregon and we are much happier. Home ownership is a real possibility here, so is a quality of life that we both sought in Seattle that we eventually found here instead. I think I was seeking a…

aww I know this wasn’t for me, but I used to be on BI too...I loved it so much, AND ALSO I SAW ORCAS ON THE FERRY ONCE. I CRIED.

Yeah, here u go, amiga regina, take your sweet, sweet, cash back my friend.

Tell ur grandparents that im not mad...just