I am actually leaving my gym and going to a new one because my old one is now in its second summer with no A/C.

When I was a child, I always loved animals and loved playing with my stuffed animals, but I never enjoyed playing with baby dolls, and if someone had a new baby, I wasn't one of those kids who wanted to play with it or hold it. I still sometimes thought I might grow up to have kids, partly because I was a kid and I…

I recently have been becoming more ruthless with keepsakes. My husband and I will not have kids. We have no living siblings and will have no nieces or nephews. We have started to be more aggressive about discarding sentimental things because there is no next generation to value them. I have actually donated a ton of…

Formal attire is exactly what I think of. I do not have many occasions to wear my silver sparkled half mesh black minidress, but I've stayed the same size since I bought it and I do end up getting it out every 2-3 years. There's no way I could find a dress that good without a multi-day quest and hitting the triple…

I have a 20/60 rule. If I think I might use it again but cannot realistically think of a time I will use it in the next year, I ask myself, "Could I replace it for less than $20? Could I find a replacement in less than 60 minutes?" If the answer to both of those is yes, I toss it.

Same here. I feel like with email and facebook messages, it's not so much my privacy as my friends'. Before I got married, I had this friend who had gotten married and he and his family were real religions nuts, and she was getting more and more sucked in, and when they moved away she gave me "her" email address but…

My dr. said I should exercise at a strenuous level regularly, and I followed that advice and haven't had another one.

One night I felt like my heart was beating more rapidly and strongly than usual. I finally went to bed and the pounding was insane. I kept getting more and more stressed out, worried that I would have a heart attack or was maybe having one. I finally woke up the next morning and was immediately aware of my heart…

I think she means it was a standard poodle. Standard poodles were included in one of the 32 breeds classified as "war dogs" by the US Army in WW II. They kept cutting the breeds down and eventually the standard poodles didn't make it in anymore. But then it would be more than 19 pounds, I think. That would be a…

I love my husband and he would never wear eyeliner. But I have had a thing for guys with eyeliner since I was in high school. Just sayin' I think it is hot.

Of course, they aren't adults, so it would make no sense to treat them like adults.

Back in the day when I did shift work, I was very conscientious of that. You know when it might be OK to be late? If you make someone stay 5 or 10 minutes late, offer to come in to relieve them a half hour early, on a day of their choice. And give them that half-hour's pay out of your paycheck. And if your boss…

Well, there's the answer. If autonomous cars are something that only rich people have access to, it is completely certain that the car will always make the choice to kill numerous poor people as opposed to risking the life of a driver, at least if we are talking about the USA. Rich people would never buy it otherwise.

This is something my husband and I argue about, He is a huge comparison shopper for everything. He questions everything, every possibility. Me, I think that for minor purchases, or even major ones with small price differentials, buy quickly based on convenience and a short-list of must-haves and dealbreakers. I think…

My only problem with TM is the expense. I refuse to pay somebody who claims to have spiritual motives to give me a mantra. I'm already way more spiritual than anyone who would accept money for something that takes no effort or knowledge.

For a really short time in school, maybe 6th grade, I was getting bullied. I tried to figure out exactly why. Everything I could think of, I could think of another kid doing the same thing or with the same trait and not getting bullied. I finally realized what it was. I wasn't willing to hurt back. There were no…

When I first started taking different acting classes, about 3 years ago, I always wanted to be partnered with the youngest, coolest, most attractive people in my class, in order to be more identified with them. After a couple of times trying that, I now always try for the oldest female or gay man in the class. They…

I always want to beat to a pulp people who, like me, are in their 40s and say things like, "I can't figure out Twitter! I don't get it!" Or who write these super long, formal emails. Or don't text. My 70 year old aunt chucked all her books and got a Kindle fire! If she can manage that, a 40 year old can figure out…

A 20-something can occupy the same position and perform the same duties as a 50-something, but they can't actually do the same job. I would have vehemently disagreed with this in my 20s. Looking back , I can see that my confidence was entirely born of ignorance.

Amen. I had invested in some stock, little by little, through Sharebuilder. One day I was looking at my investments. I could not believe how much they had grown!!! I researched the companies trying to find out if there was any legitimate reason they should be so high. ONE of them made sense. The others, not so much. I…