A college friend, who is black, married a very caucasian man with blonde hair and blue eyes. When her son with born with darkish skin but blonde hair, she got endless commentary from well-meaning, stick-the-nose in types about awful she was to bleach the baby’s hair.

Is Amazon regulated differently in different countries, in terms of recycling? I live in the UK and everything we have received from Amazon is in cardboard, both boxes and envelopes, and packed with brown paper instead of packing peanuts or bubble wrap.

I was born in America but live overseas now. I was sitting on the bus at the depot, waiting with everyone else for the assigned driver to come (they usually step away for 5 min to have a smoke or use the toilet). I said something to someone that revealed my non-local accent, and an old man hurried down the bus to my…