Joule thief!

I am deeply infuriated that when my heart dog’s cancer gets the best of her, I can take away her pain, yet my brother, grandparent, parents, and father in law were all denied that mercy and endured so much agony. Even with hospice, they suffered for so long. Thank Dog my state has changed the law and my sister has a…

Rillettes are dead easy, but also super impressive, and I’m pleased to see them getting some well-deserved attention.
I’ll say though that it’s not really much work or making things super fancy to give the meat a glug of booze and some extra spices. I think juniper in particular adds something fantastic to the mix.
But…

This. Having watched a friend die after an organ illness that was genetically based (I never knew the full details, as I was mostly friends with his husband), it was painful but better that he went with the people he loved by his side, rather than waiting as his heart gave out while in what would have been extreme…

Over the past two years, I’ve seen three close family members die “natural” deaths and the last few days/weeks of pain and semi/unconsciousness were clearly not pleasant for them or the family. Morphine doesn’t help once cancer spreads to the bones and they’re crying out in pain every time you have to turn them. As…

Just out of curiosity, where do you live?

I don’t know why this sounds weird to people.  Tomato and citrus are are great combination and the main reason why salsa works.  

I wish we had campaigns like this 20 years ago when I had my son. I was a young mom who was ashamed of my body and its stretch marks. I hid in matronly bathing suits and bermuda shorts no matter how thin I was because I thought no one wanted to see my mom body. I have more body confidence at 40 than I ever had at 25.…

While I understand your point and agree that a deeper systemic change is needed rather than ‘normalising, brutally honest’ photos to advertise nappies or whatever, I am not ashamed to say that I saw these photos today and felt validated. I’m two years past ‘post-birth’ and as someone who was slim prior to my baby, it…

“night right now”

First, sex is not an obligation in a marriage. Yes, the existence of it IS implied. However, neither partner has the right to demand it when they’re in the mood. So no, withholding sex isn’t breaking the vows one makes.

I agree for the most part with you, but damn...:

I mean there are so many so naive/silly people out there though. I signed up for a sugar website to find someone who needed a place to stay and didn’t mind being roomates.  I had a nice apartment in an expensive city and was traveling 75% of the time for work. So it seemed silly to leave the place empty, but it was a…

On the kink issue, i once dated a girl who was into some (fairly tame) BDSM stuff. Did nothing at all for me, but she REALLY got into it. And I found myself enjoying it because SHE was enjoying it, and she reciprocated in other ways, so I guess my point here is communication and wanting to make your partner happy is…

For the Kinky-Nerdy girl;

Contains Gillian Anderson. Will watch.

Hit menopause. *rimshot*

Similar story: when my ex and I lost our daughter, one of her students (she was teaching middle school) said “I heard your daughter died. That sucks.” It was so honest and true and better than the bullshit “Everything happens for a reason” and “God must have needed an angel” crap we got from so many others (note: if…

Best condolence I received was from a 14 year old boy. I was chaperoning a youth trip when I got a phone call that a coworker/my cubemate had died (Cancer. It was expected but not that soon.). Word slowly got around to the kids and, predictably, most of them had no idea what to do and sorta avoided me...except for…