I will say, when I lived in a kind of mid-sized-ish rural city, the Wal-Mart there was kind of like what I imagine an old-school main street would be, with a pharmacy, a vision center, a health center, a notary, a Subway and even a little H&R Block, so I suppose if you had a day filled with appointments you could…

How do you spend thirteen hours inside a Wal-Mart? What do you do for all that time? You can't spend it shopping can you? I can barely spend a half-hour in a Wal-Mart without losing the will to live.

This paper was one of several Advance media newspapers that has been attempting to awkwardly transition from a full published paper with all the traditional checks and balances into a more newsbloggy model. So likely some either inexperienced lower-level news drone or some new-to-newsblogging old fart trying to hold…

Yup, and hope your parents wouldn't notice the telltale glow of the computer screen under the door.

I used to like to visit the local grocery's salad bar for lunch. I will add that I am a rather tall lady living in a region of the country where many people are pretty short. So I was making my way to the salad bar when I notice an older dude following me too-closely with his shopping cart. I thought I might be in his…

Oh lord, I don't know. Did you live in Houma, Louisiana around 2009? I hope Fake Paul Stanleys aren't harassing women like this all over the country.

Years ago, when I was working as a reporter at a small-town newspaper, a coworker who was a huge metalhead convinced a bunch of us that it would be fun to go see a KISS cover band at this cheesy new bar that had recently opened. (Being in our early 20s and stuck in a weird rural area, we kind of had to make our own…

It is great... a lot of people make a big fuss about Jazz Fest but French Quarter Fest is completely free and features a lot of the same local music acts, so if you don't care much about the big headliners its a great bargain. It's got all the other great stuff about Jazz Fest too (the FOOD BOOTHS!) and you get to…

Yeah... I've got a chubby cat too. We feed her a really strict diet (measured portions of weight control food twice a day) and pretty much no treats and she's still a chubster at about 11 pounds. I think it's because she's just so sedentary. I try to console myself that I used to have a cat as a kid that weighed 18…

Do it! It works really well. Our little chubster cat got some cat acne and we just scrubbed her chin with an a little medicated pad every couple of nights and it cleared up really well! She HATED it though. Basically had to close the bathroom door and put her in a headlock to get it done. :( We also got a bigger water…

Sometimes I feel really lucky I never got catfished. I was a lonely teenage girl from a small town who played MMOs back in the late 90s/early 00s and made some online friends that way, way before everyone had webcams and social media profiles and back when it was much easier to lie your face off online and not leave a…

Dude me too. It really seemed like he just went down stairs and put a terrible wig on. But to be fair his hair really did look fake.

Seriously. I had a long-term rental (about a month and a half) at a B&B a few years ago when I moved for a job. They rented out some rooms inside their home but also had a second little two-story house in their backyard with a private entrance that they had turned into a pair of efficiency rooms for week-long/monthly…

Maybe it's because I'm also pretty shapely in the boobs and hips area, but a lot of their shorter dresses are short enough on me that I could put a pair of pants on underneath and wear them as a baby doll top.

For all the other complaints about ModCloth, they have great customer service. I bought some jewelry from them about a year ago that included an advertisement-style sample of Woolite that exploded in the package. My jewelry was all bagged so it didn't get on anything, but it was still kinda gross, so I emailed to let…

Yeah, I'm 5'10 and have to be really careful about buying dresses there because a lot of times they're cut so short it's like HEY EVERYBODY LOOK AT MY BUTT.

I've read a lot of gross stuff on the internet, but this made me feel like I need to retire to my fainting couch.

That cat is amazingly docile and comfortable with humans for a pet who's been roaming the wild for 13 years. I wonder he might have wander off and subsequently been adopted by someone else who thought he was a stray, only to jailbreak and return to his home.

I also got mine at 11. It was early enough that it kind of took my mom by surprise and I was pretty mortified. But once word got around I experienced a weird, minor celebrity that I still don't understand because other girls in my grade all wanted to know what it was like.

I got my first period at Girl Scout Space Camp. I thought I was dying, but then I remembered Judy Bloom and got my troop leader to buy me some maxi pads. Worst. Period. Ever.