As someone who's in the middle of a fantastic second trimester, let me just say "NEVER AGAIN." I eagerly anticipate the arrival of the kidlet, but pregnancy hasn't been a walk in the park, and it's not something I want to repeat.

She's Cicero?

Henry was always thinking of the children. Well, the future children. The future boy children.

I'm just about to hit three months ... can I join the playgroup, too?

If that dress came in black, I'd throw on some feathers and junk jewelry and call it my Stevie Nicks Knocked Up dress. I would wear the shit out it. (Fun fact, trying to find plus sized dresses for pregnant ladies is quadruple the aggrivation.)

Going by the description of crystals and my knowledge of all the Targets in New Mexico, and the travel time to Planned Parenthood, I'm going to guess the author was in Santa Fe.

I am unashamed of my typewriter collection. I have a 1912 Underwood from my great-grandfather's medical practice, a typewriter my grandfather liberated from the Nazis, a 1932 Remington that a great uncle used when he was a cub reporter, a 1930s Smith Corona and the crown jewel — a 1959 Olympus that works like a charm…

It always makes me think of the dictator Sulla.

@shakenandstirred: What pisses me off is how both of my friends thought it was true love and forever, because both men fed them that line.

My high school's choir director and band director were fired within 9 months of each other for having sexual relationships with their students.

@MotherChucker: Baby-melting acrylic, are you MAD?!

@revlimiter: Excellent job, man.

@theworldinside: Aw, hell no.

@der gugelhupf: I have been wincing at ugly pooling for days now.

My mom would have totally done this, except that WASPs usually go for champion passive-aggressiveness, so instead of ratting me out as a terrorist, she stopped speaking to me.

@tangodiva: Wait, you can tell the brand of circs from a pap pic?

@LadyTudorRose: I've lived in this town for fifteen years, and outside of the Dude and my parents, I'm not really rolling in friends. The Dude and I have talked about a rent-a-friend service for years because I suck so pathetically at making and keeping friends.

@Slatka: I have never been able to wrap my brain around the whys of it all. An archduke dies in 1914 and triggers a century of warfare and genocide.

@Spenner: OOOOH! PM me your work and, if you're on Kindle, I'll download a couple right this minute, because I'm off on holiday in the morning and I'm looking for crime fiction to read.

@drunkexpatwriter: Unhearted you just to heart you again.