Can you share a reference that backs up that claim? I’ve never heard that before and the quick search I did didn’t bring up anything. 

Jolly balls! My pittie, Baby Girl, LOVES her jolly more than literally any of the (thousands of) other toys she has. It’s designed to be indestructible and we’ve had ours for over 3 years without her putting a hole in it (not for lack of trying).

Jolly balls! My pittie, Baby Girl, LOVES her jolly more than literally any of the (thousands of) other toys she has.…

She’s a Mariner 19, so technically I guess we could have something even smaller, but I still think of her as very tiny, mostly because there’s no head. 

I used to sail barefoot a lot more until I stubbed my toe trying to run forward to fix something quickly. I was pretty sure it was broken and while a shoe wouldn’t have prevented me from slammed my foot into the cleat entirely, it would have at least spread out the impact over the whole toe box.

So did I!!!

I don’t think so, since Big Pharma also sells IUDs. I think a lot of the hesitancy comes from the fact that there were problems with the original IUDs that came out in the 70s and both doctors and older women have been slow to encourage young women to try them. 

That sounds like a problem with the doctor who inserted it. There’s nothing about the insertion or the IUD itself that can cause muscle damage. I’m very sorry this happened to you (but that is very unusual). 

Thank you for this tiny nugget of hope. 

Right, I think the reaction varied by geography. As a person who grew up in CT (in New England but also really close to NYC), it was ALL over the news. I was about 17 at the time and he was just young enough that I thought he was a “cool” adult, so his death made me feel sad. 

Too bad Priority Pass sucks ass and isn’t affiliated with any airlines so you’re not going to find helpful agents there. 

Yep. I don’t get sick a lot but I do travel by plane at least once a month so I wipe down everything before I get settled. I don’t think it’s weird at all. The last flight I took, when I opened the tray table, a loaf’s worth of crumbs were on the tray so let’s not pretend they are being washed between flights (or…

I did a combination of the two — highest rate with lowest balance and I did put more than the minimum across all the debts even if it was just a dollar. Once I paid one off, I put that toward the next highest rate/lowest balance. I used a spreadsheet to play around the scenarios a few different ways to see what I…

As someone else mentioned, nope, that is NOT something editors are doing. My husband is a fact-checker and occasionally does freelance work for authors but they pay him out of their own pocket for that. 

Whoa. Some of us have naturally dark brows and naturally red hair. #NotAllDarkBrows

I’m sorry that happened to you. Middle/high school can be awful and I hope adult life has been kinder to you. 

I’m certain that’s what my teacher thought would happen, without thinking about how it could turn ugly very quickly. And most people did write nice things. It was just mean girls like me that made it ugly. 

I can only speak for myself, but I definitely do all the time. There was no good reason for me to behave like that. I just wanted to feel more secure in my social standing by making sure I was standing above someone, anyone. It was dick. I was dick. And just in case you never get to hear it from the people who were…

For some reason that still isn’t clear to me over 20 years later, our freshman year health teacher had us write anonymous notes to one person each class. One week it was my grammar school best friend’s turn. It was a tiny town so *Beth was more of a friend of convenience than of choice, because our houses were only…

As literally everyone else has said, this isn’t even a debate.

You raise a good point that I hadn’t considered even as I was reading the story. I lived in an on-campus apartment my sophomore-senior years (2001-2003) and there weren’t any (to the best of my knowledge anyway) RAs to check on us. I suppose if all of my roommates and I had agreed, we could have easily had someone…