During the summers, my granddaughter spends six weeks with me. We live far apart geographically and I don’t get to see her often, so it’s the highlight of my year. One of our favorite activities is to drive around town with the sunroof open, singing pop songs at the top of our lungs.

I still haven’t said “president” and “Trump” in the same sentence and I never will. He’s not my president. 

Yeah, we are well and truly fucked.

That one made me laugh too, which I truly appreciate. It gave me a brief respite from the extraordinary stress I’m under every day that I wake up and see Trump is still president.

He sure showed them!

I’m a big believer in honeymoon funds. My father-in-law, however, doesn’t agree. We had a huge argument recently when a family friend got married. Because the couple is older and didn’t need any household items—and because they love to travel—they set up a fund on Honeymoon Wishes. It allowed us to see exactly how our…

I’m getting sick and fucking tired of hearing, “It’s not my fault. I was only quoting my sources and I can’t help it if they’re wrong.” It’s Trump’s all-time favorite way to deflect blame and pass the buck, and it’s a tactic that’s being enthusiastically embraced by people like Jones. These “sources” are…

I just saw Joe Barton’s shockingly candid and completely infuriating admission about why Republicans couldn’t make this happen. According to him, they didn’t have to come up with anything that would actually work in the past because they knew Obama would veto it anyway. Barton says Repubs got cold feet this time…

I surprised myself the other day by bursting into tears over a photo gallery that featured some of Barack and Michelle’s sweet moments together. I’ve been super depressed over the Trump situation, but I hadn’t realized the depths of my sorrow over losing the Obamas until then. Fortunately, I was home alone and could…

All your comments in this thread have given me a soupçon of hope, and I can’t thank you enough for that. Fear, despair and extreme cynicism have become my default emotions these days, and I hate how that feels.

And given the fact that this Russian investigation has supposedly been going on since last July, he’ll likely emerge from it unscathed, as he has with everything else. If there’s enough evidence to bring him down, why hasn’t it happened before now?

Exactly. My best friend in high school was extraordinarily promiscuous, with no compunction about her lifestyle whatsoever. That’s because every Sunday morning at her fundamentalist Baptist church, she asked for—and received—forgiveness. Come Monday, it was back to business as usual.

Whew! It took lots of reading and scrolling to finally come across a comment that didn’t drive me closer to the brink of insanity. Thank you for that sliver of hope that we’re not well, truly and completely fucked.

I’m from that area too, and you’re right, she’s beloved by everyone. I’ve never heard even a hint of negative talk about her.

In her inimitable tongue-in-cheek style, she often says she supports gay marriage because “they deserve to suffer just like us heterosexuals.”

I watched the documentary For the Bible Tells Me So recently, which focuses on homosexuality’s conflict with Christianity and vice versa. One of the points it raises is that even if the bible is the real word of god, it was written 1,500 years ago, during a different time and in a very different world. That alone…

I’ve only refrained from offering opinions about the confederate flag issue, not the gay sister situation. I absolutely have an obligation to show solidarity, and I did.

I should have said they profess to be devout, which is clearly more accurate. They’re my husband’s sister and brother-in-law, so to keep familial peace, I’ve refrained from offering my unsolicited—and undoubtedly unwanted—opinions.

I have a 17-year-old nephew who lives in Alabama. He recently got his driver’s license and a truck, and for his birthday, he asked for both “Don’t Tread on Me” and confederate flag bumper stickers.

I’d like to have strains to choose from and target symptoms more than I do now, but I’ll have to move to a different state for that to happen. I just take what I can get, and it always seems to help with nausea and cramping. It also makes me hungry, which helps counteract the wasting aspect of Crohns.