Isn't it great winning the in-law lottery?

Fortunately, my daughter calls several times a week and emails a couple of times a day.

We don't discuss news and politics for the most part — besides the weather. The few times I've slipped (beginning of the latest Israeli offensive and Ferguson) have been miserable clusterfucks. The problem is this stuff seeps into normal conversation. Like the thing about her friend's kid, or where she wants to go on…

See, we already have that truce. It's just she can't hold to it or keep the racism from spilling out like a broken sewer pipe.

Is Orphan Black on Hulu? Because you should also watch that.

I am bloated because I went to a fellow expat friend's for a Thanksgiving feast this evening. She made the most amazing green been casserole, and everyone loved the macaroni and cheese I brought. So tonight was a success!

Glow in the dark mini-golf!! That sounds amazing!

So Jezzies, how do you deal with a parent who has... putting it lightly here... different political opinions from you? And by political opinions I mean that my mom's an unrepentant racist that has drunk the Fox News kool aid who somehow has the ability to bring this shit up in every conversation we have no matter how…

I live in Sweden, and I've also seen it regularly in Germany and Russia. It's delicious imho.

If I'm going to buy milk just to drink (and not to mix into my coffee or oatmeal) I usually pick up "drinking yoghurt/quark" instead, because protein is filling!

Who are these people not drinking soda? Even in my tiny Swedish grocery store the flats of Coke Zero (my poison of choice) are replaced faster than any other soft drink. They're actually run out on occasion.

Recipe please!

That is why one of my favorite tv shows is Mayday/Air Crash Investigation. Planes are safe.

Team never ever going home again. I celebrate it if any of my fellow expat friends wants to host. This year I am making my guilty pleasure mac and cheese.

I know, right?

it was me! It's replaced "cool story bro" when I just cannot deal with some bullshit.

I have a milwife/vet cousin who only posted to be angry at "rioters burning the flag" she risked her life protecting. Because that cheap made in China flad is more important than someone's life.

This is a reply I got on facebook today from a white dude and the accompanying messages. If you do not understand by now that all of these -isms are tangled up in a gordian knot of awful, then I do not know what to tell you.

I feel more despair than rage honestly. I've been on the verge of tears all day.

They actually weed out applicants with high IQs, and it's totally legal.