I am 90% certain you’re referring to House Hunters Renovation - the green granite still haunts me. My take-away is that you should do your trendy decorating with cosmetic elements - ie. paint colors, not permanent features, like countertops.

I am excited about this post and really not surprised about the extremely critical reception - my mom says that in the 80s when her sister left the church and stopped bringing her family everyone, including her, kept saying ‘BUT HOW WILL YOUR KIDS LEARN GOOD MORALS AND VALUES? HOW WILL THEY KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG? THEY…

I know a lot of homeschoolers - generally if there is a subject they can’t teach themselves they can get a class organized or tutor. The kids I know just started taking certain subjects at community college at 16. This particular woman sounds like she has plenty of resources available.

YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE WEAR THE OVERALLS!

Seriously, you will age - or maybe, like me, have a baby - and then you will feel frumpy and too tired to get ‘dressed up’ aka wear anything but jeggings and a very flowy tank top. And you will think, “my body was so awesome and my schedule so free when I was in my early 20s, why…

My neighbour told me about 2 weeks ago that we were in for a really rough time until the 22nd of July because of Mars being on Scorpio or something to that effect. She was like ‘lot’s of tensions will boil over - there will we fights, disasters, violence - everything will come to a head, so meditate every day and…

This is actually a totally reasonable solution! In many countries patrol police are not armed.

I want to bring you out with my new ‘mom friends’. I have a 3-month-old, and the vast majority of my friends are not having kids/not having kids yet so I feel like a kid at summer camp trying to find pals to hang out with at 11:30 on a Tuesday. I joined my hospital’s mom-and-me group and hit the jackpot. One woman…