Not overreacting. It’s already being done. Green card holders detained, handcuffed, and not allowed on flights. They are now refugees from America.

Thank you for saying that. It was an incredibly hard decision. But I finally realized what a toll it was taking on my health and that sometimes supportive friends, counseling, and self-care just aren’t enough. Hope everyone else who needs it has and gets to keep the health coverage that makes it possible.

Wheeee! After a year of extreme personal crises - deaths, work shakeups, health problems, a very bad relationship upheaval, and now geopolitics that will directly fuck up the lives of close friends and family, I finally yesterday gave in to my doctor’s recommendation that I try pharmaceuticals. Lexapro, take me away!

True. This anecdote might need a little creative license.

True. This anecdote might need a little creative license.

My cat stole my Dash button and hid it in some secret lair she has somewhere and now every few days I get a new massive package of paper towels.

My cat stole my Dash button and hid it in some secret lair she has somewhere and now every few days I get a new…

Saying “the studios” are losing money obscures the fact that it’s real people whose livelihoods are affected. Every illegal download takes money out of the pocket of the people who write, act in, edit, cater to, clean up set porta-potties for, etc, theproduction of content that people claim to love. And those people…

And if she doesn’t fight back, she clearly wanted it.

Can we please give credit to Allison Schroeder, who wrote the original screenplay?

I get the protein thing, but an egg doesn’t sound appetizing. My go-to breakfast is oatmeal (old-fashioned, not quick oats so they’re less mushy) with a tablespoon of natural peanut butter, half a sliced apple, and a light drizzle of honey. It’s about the only thing that keeps me full all morning.

So glad I minored in Russian in college. I’m gonna get my first choice of gulag!

I’m starting my third post-grad degree program this fall and I am so tempted to get myself a Trapper Keeper.

Way too much adorableness in one photo. All she has to do is say the word and I’ll fly there to babysit/roll around in a sea of toddlers and babies.

Finally The Americans gets the Emmy love it deserves.

This is so heartbreaking. And it’s amazing it doesn’t happen more often. I’ve been there a couple times, and as someone with a moderate fear of heights, that place is a nightmare. There are very few guardrails, and the drop-offs are sharp and very, very high. Every picture is someone standing on the edge, just a step…

If they stay, they’re being conscripted into Assad’s army, which is not really fighting ISIS. They’re fighting, bombing, and torturing their own citizens and being used as cannon fodder. The smartest, most noblest thing to do is to get out of their for their own safety and for that of their families.

The other reason to pay to off debt slowly is if they’re essentially letting you use their money for free. I consolidated my student loans at 1.625% (a few years ago when that was still possible) and pay only the minimum amount I have to. I also recently replaced my 15-year-old car with a new one. I could have paid…

She’s my second cat. My sweet Lola passed away last fall at age 14. Apricot is 7 weeks old, and was a rescue when she and her three litter-mates were abandoned or their mother was lost or hurt. The shelter said they’d have to euthanize them since they were so tiny they needed round-the-clock care, but my saintly…

Image upload failed. Trying this again. Here’s my new kitty, Apricot. Brought home yesterday.

Here is my new baby, Apricot, brought home yesterday.

I grew up a few hours from KC and we’d go a couple times a year to hit Worlds of Fun, go to a Royals game, and do some shopping. Loved the Country Club Plaza, especially the place that made chocolate cokes. But I was back there a couple years ago and was disappointed to find that it’s now almost all chain stores. I’d…