I got married last year, in my late 30's. Except for my teenage niece, my bridesmaids were all over 35. I looked at David’s Bridal for a minute, but everything looked like thin slinky polyester. I knew my friends would feel the need to squeeze into uncomfortable sweaty shapewear to hide their mom-tummies and back…

Aha! I knew she was either in Charles or Calvert. She knows she can’t say that word at work, but figured she could get away with it back home.  

Yes, exactly. Pay them AND give them the ability to put their firefighting experience to use after they’ve finished serving their time. Even if you set aside the positive benefits of treating prisoners like humans, from a a purely financial perspective it still makes sense. The state invests a lot of money in training…

Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought of too - I have pins in my ankle, and sometimes I get some painful swelling and need to put my foot up. My coworkers have gotten used to leaving me two chairs in meetings - one to sit on, and one to stretch my leg over.

Lol - even though I can get my vibranium bras online now, my siblings and I still plan an annual girl’s day around massages, shoe shopping, then a trip to BraLaLa (our state’s purveyor of $100 everyday bras).  It’s the one place I will pay full price with no questions asked, they never steer me wrong.  

Check out Too Apparel - they’re an online place that is sort of like the Toms Shoes of underwear. For every pair you buy, they donate a pair to a womens shelter or other charity. The undies are nice cotton, in cute basic colors, and have held up quite well. I’m partial to the briefs but they also have bikinis, thongs,…

Yes. I have been tall and well-endowed since puberty, and several times in my late teens, I wandered into a Victoria’s Secret. Each time, a saleswoman would measure me and hand me a ton of 40D bras to try on (I think that’s the largest size they sell in-store). I’d attempt to fasten a bunch of ridiculously padded…

You could always do an alternative gift registry like SoKind. For our wedding, we REALLY didn’t need household stuff. My husband is into genealogy, so he loves sentimental family stuff, and I work in the reuse industry so I value used and old stuff highly.

Wow!  Yes, please share more, this was great!

thank you - you have just cured me of my bad habit of falling asleep on the sofa instead of going to bed.

Thank you, that was lovely!!

Ooh, I don’t know why but this story feels particularly scary!  Thanks for sharing!

I had broken up with the only man I had ever thought I was going to marry because I’d just turned 35 and it was clear that we weren’t going to get married after all. He left town for grad school, I had to empty all the junk out of our big beautiful old house and move into a basement room of a group house.

This is the best!  Especially that last line :)

Ahahaha I’m dying! You mom is adorable!!

This was really sweet to read, I needed that today. Please give that guy a big huge hug.

Wow, that’s a brilliant way to handle it!

Yup. I asked for accommodations for a disorder that I struggle with, and now everybody in our office knows about it and a few openly roll their eyes over how I’m so lazy and disorganized (despite my excellent reviews and quantitative record of success). If it had been properly handled, only 3 people would have needed…

I think you are right. I live in the DC area, and in the last decade I have been happily surprised with the ways that local small museums and parks in central Maryland are telling a wider range of stories, and revisiting the whitewashed history we learned in school (not to mention all of the investment in developing…

I believe multiple things can be true. If someone is messed up enough to marry a creep like Woody then of course it’s plausible they’re messed up as a mother. Mia could have been terrible to her adopted kids, AND Woody used the resulting alienation to go after Soon Yi. Mia could have been cruel to her adopted kids AND…