Meditation, knitting, even a thing called “Emotional Freedom Technique” (EFT) wherein you gently and repetitively tap on various accupressure points while saying positive, calming things to yourself. If you google “EFT tapping” you can find many sites that explain it. Don’t pay anyone or buy any “lessons” or anything.…

If in the US, her state/county/city might have a victim’s aid fund. I am so terribly sorry for your friend!

Did you ever see “Chiller,” or “Night Gallery”? SO scary and fun watching them at sleepovers with my best 7th-grade friend.

There is NO fucking way.

I gave that book to my 87-year-old grandmother when I left for a date one night. Hours later, I came home & she was still sitting in her chair, reading, at 1 am. She couldn’t talk anymore but she just looked up at me with horrified/delighted eyes, pointed to the book, and shook her head. I walked her upstairs to her…

The “wooden lady” episode? Dolls inside the Christmas barrel? Toy train to nowhere? (shudder)

“If you. Have ANY information. Please contact ...”

YES! Demonic possession, because my family was Catholic and the church believes in it. So I thought it was real.

I’m in Fairfax. Would meet. Have two great, long-term friends I met on a now-defunct feminist blog.

As if you don’t know that smoking isn’t a pristine health choice, right? Thank goodness people are here to “help” you with that.

So it IS her fault that Bill Clinton put her in an unexpected and awkward postion. Just admit it - women bear all responsibility for all the things all men do!

Hell, we did it for our toddlers!

What do you think praying is? At least in many religions.

“Wiccans who aren’t always the most serious people”

“Anita Hill”

“dumb enough to call herself a witch”

I read that as on her way to work. As in, I wear a dumpy LL Bean winter jacket to work, and this woman’s outer wrap is a lovely velvet cloak. Another person with way more fashion sense than me.

Nah. “Goodwoman” and “Goodhusband.” Let’s try that for a couple thousand years or so.

I posted this under my previous burner, but that burner appears to have been Kinja’d. Forgive me if this story appears twice:

“shady meeting”