I am willing to bet she’d had to make that point to other people before the judge. About this case or others.

A CBS article (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-priests-nuns-sexual-slavery-abuse-saint-jean-order-france/) says it was the Community of St. Jean somewhere in France, but I haven’t found anything on it in English or French about the order dissolving.

None of those is a good thing but I feel some level of relief to hear about them. 

We did. Wall to wall. Honestly, the kid part wasn’t as big a problem as the fact that we lived in a rural area (the carpet went all the way to the patio off my parents bedroom) and our cat who threw up every meal she was given. This was something she’d done since before we got the carpets and her food must have use…

I remember 16th and Mission then. I did fencing and my classes were a block over on s Van Ness. What I saw should have phased a middle schooler, but I just kinda went with it. Other than getting catcalled (not different from the rest of the city), I was left alone so I didn’t care. None of those creepy guys that the…

At least you had the fun of drinking the tequila that killed your interest in it. One night, my friend decided to drink her sadness away with tequila. It didn’t work and she didn’t remember to bring a hair tie, so I got to sit next to her and do the honors as she threw up all night.

Yes! I was thinking that too. Just like Louis CK sets, if you’re going to be offensive, you really can’t be sloppy about it. 

Those insta pancakes (that were clearly cut out with some big cookie cutter) are freaking me out. They don’t have pancake edges. Were they all cut out from some big sheet of pancake? Not ok. 

I feel sorry for the single gay men out there who might have Jeff inflicted upon them. 

Agreed. As much as I wipe up huge poops and can talk about them with my husband all through dinner without a second thought; looking at that cake made me gag. 

Cake Wrecks has so much worse and this one felty intentionally awful. If you have the stomach for it, check out their oozing c-section cakes.

While it is not exclusively Chinese, Andrea Nguyen’s ‘Asian Dumplings’ cookbook is an outstanding work on the subject. It definitely favors Chinese dumplings. So far, everything I’ve made from it was delicious and I learned how easy and far superior homemade dumpling skins are to anything you can buy.

Yup. I started strength training in my early 30s and loved it. Nothing particularly intense, but it made me feel great. These days, my high school offers yoga, dance, and “physical conditioning” classes which I would have loved.

Yes! Also, my parents weren’t into sports, so it was no surprise that I wasn’t either. I didn’t know all the rules of games I was supposed to just know. Sure, I knew the basic ideas, but to this day I’m not clear on what a “double dribble” is in basketball and still don’t care.

Their main student center building has two grand staircases— one for up, one for down — so that you maintain the flow of energy in the building.

Ours is grey with a dark purple head panel. My son fits in it just fine. 

Yeah, trinkets and doodads aren’t of interest to me. Edible things are great. I’ve been to a few weddings where they handed out things like mini bottles of a local spirit, a jar of wild rice (Minnesota), some teas (British). Nothing big and something we’d be fine using up and getting rid of. 

I have a feeling this needs to be an entire post of its own. Take lots of notes!

I hate baby showers but I would totally attend a puppy shower. 

I can only imagine what her first month as a parent was like. It is tough on the best of us, but I bet she either let go of stupid notions quickly or completely lost her shit.