i don’t think it’s different for parents. my mom decided that i enjoyed tickling. i hated it. i asked her to stop tickling me, both while being tickled and later when she wasn’t touching me. for years. but it was stuck in her head that my laughter response meant i liked it.

you know, i’m going to go with “yes, ask permission before hugging”. as someone who hated mandatory hugging as a kid, i was in my 30's before i stopped actively avoiding hugs from friends and family. 

hello, fellow biter!

i had a boyfriend once who learned the hard way about my violent response to tickling. i told him i hated it and to never do it. he tried it once. i flipped the sofa over on him during my escape. it was a fairly lightweight sofa and he was fine, but he never tried it again.

and when i was a kid, people like you are how i got to be known as a biter. even to adults who were friendly with me. 

no. but it can be terrifying also. and when you’re a little kid and your mom thinks tickling you while you scream “stop” is cute because she assumes you are kidding, it’s also traumatizing.
i’ve been raped, twice, both times by people i knew and (previously) trusted.
having my mother tickle me until i hyperventilated…

yikes! glad you had friends and family around. that’s a scary experience.

i think the internet may have you covered. https://www.spiceandtea.com/feta-cheese-powder.html

i do not know for sure, but i feel like a dehydrator might be involved

big price difference though

i volunteer with a cat rescue and just had to test it to see if i could use it to clean up photos of our kittens for their online profiles. sadly, it does not yet recognize kittens.
it was worth a shot though

shred it with barbecue sauce and pile it on a hamburger bun with coleslaw. chop it cold into a pasta salad. slice the breast and serve it over rice pilaf and chicken gravy. tear it into bite sized pieces and toss it with steamed broccoli and trader joe’s general tso sauce. shred it into an apple walnut salad with…

have you cleaned your filter lately? i have a very nice dishwasher (scratch and dent sale!) that seemed to be terrible after a few months. turns out that even if i scrape and pre rinse my dishes, it needs the filter cleaned about once a month.

i make my stock in a pressure cooker too. then strain it and chill it for a day or so, to let the particles join the fat and rise to the top. then i take the whole section of fat and cloudiness off and freeze it for winter. (i mix the fatty stuff with seeds, oatmeal, dried fruit, and fat scraps from other meats for my…

i have done this with a wooden skewer before. 

yup, that’s how it goes sometimes. some cats are very picky about the litter, the box, the location, whether other cats use the box, etc. 

ugh, the wheat and corn based litters smell so awful to me. and they tend to develop mold, sometimes before you even open the bag if you live in a humid area like i do. the pine pellets are far more mold resistant. and, of course, typically less expensive. in most cases, the pine pellets are an economical choice for…

i volunteer with a cat rescue. in the petsmart adoption centers we use pine pellet horse bedding from tractor supply because it’s cheap and doesn’t aggravate the cats with dust in the smaller space at the adoption center (they don’t live in the adoption center full time, we are foster home based.)
we also use it for…

i also use cheap bath gloves to clean my microwave and the vents on my stove. the animal rescue i volunteer with uses them to clean the weird fiddly bits on quarantine cages (along with cheap toothbrushes)

hah! your letter seems familiar. are you also allergic to crunchy & red?