Take it day by day and have a backup plan in place if you feel like you're very close to the edge.

Are you single? 'Cause that was awesome. Have this :

One house that has all-white lights in a neighborhood full of colorful lights looks special and kind of winter-magical. A neighborhood full of houses with all-white lights looks boring as fuck. It's a conundrum.

I think it would be cool to add on:

It worked on me when I was a kid. Kept asking for the (insanely expensive) LEGO Space Monorail, and every time it didn't materialize my parents would do this wideyed "well we TOLD Santa to get that for you, what the hell is his problem" routine. Successfully diverted my wrath to an imaginary scapegoat. My letters to…

Every year my daughter writes extensive Christmas lists and demands a tree, two requests I never grant. She is always confused as to why. I just don't have the heart to tell her we're Jewish.

Oh wow, I got you right! And I swear I hadn't even reached that comment when I typed mine. I just have a good sense for insecure people who hate it when the self-worth they work so hard to hammer into their own brains is vaguely threatened by a fat girl who doesn't hate herself. Imagine if all fat women stopped hating…

I eat healthy. I exercise. My doctor says I'm healthy. I'm healthy, therefore, I am a healthy size. Suck it.

Ah yes, look at how obese I am:

You know, for all the crap teenage girls get for being too bitchy, teenage boys can be sooo much worse. When I was in high school, before I discovered that padded bras could "round out" my triangular shaped boobs, the boy who sat behind me in class used to whisper "pointy boobs" at me all hour long, every day. And he…

My son is autistic (high functioning) and was mainstreamed fully in school for the first time last year in grade ten.

A recluse on the level of JD Salinger. Very few times has she made public appearances, virtually never granting interviews.

Not so fast on dismissing the Ebelskiver miniature pancake pan.