I was up visiting my sister and her family a little while ago and her 14-year-old daughter had just entered high school. Her transition was a little rough. I asked her to describe her day to me and stuff came pouring out, about all the older kids she didn't know, where her locker was, the new teachers, how her friends…

If only Diana Vreeland were still alive she could ask rhetorically, "Why don't more women wear hats from HMS Pinafore?"

I salute you for the Jack Chick reference. I bought a box of his comics at some yard sale in the 1990s and doled them out with great discretion when I had to RSVP by mail to a wedding or a party or whatever. They never failed to amuse.

No no. No no no no. Aubrey Plaza has to play the Julie McCoy role. Washed up actor shows up playing some kind of cruise passenger role and Aubrey Plaza can look at her clipboard and say, "You're in 4C on one of the decks, Fiesta Deck, I don't know. Go ask that other passenger over there. He might know. NEXT!"

This is not my story, thankfully, but a friend of mine was dating a guy who was frequently unavailable and hated hanging out with her friends, you know where this going. About six weeks went by with no physical contact (he was busy, sick grandparent who conveniently lived in another state, really bad flu) so she…

I had a pretentious dog! When another dog and owner would approach us and the other dog would be all excited and want to play and sniff her butt and she'd just stand there and glare at them. Not growl or be aggressive, just look at them as if thinking, "You're trash and you fill me with disgust." She was a great dog,…

To avoid the problem of divorce just don't get married in the first place. After 20 seconds of googling I found a New York Times article that said that as of 2007 52% of newborns in France were born to unwed partners. (In the US the number was 40%.) There might come a day in France when more gay parents are married…

I found out only recently that the Catholic Church forbids IVF. I would have thought they would welcome all life, the more the merrier, but no. I think surrogacy might be considered the same way. A lot of countries are still nominally Catholic, even if regular church attendance in some is miniscule, but maybe these…

Upcycled wedding dresses. I miss Regretsy so much.

Maybe the voices in her head, which she is powerless to stop, dictated these comments?

Did you ever see Carrie Fisher's one woman show "Wishful Drinking" or read the book? She talks a little bit about her ex, Paul Simon. Having seen the show every time I hear "Bridge over Troubled Waters" I start chuckling inappropriately, even though it was recorded years before they started dating/got married.

The peanut thing is already here. A lot of schools ask parents not to send their children in with (or ban outright) any food made with peanut butter or cooked in peanut oil. Where this peanut allergy sprung from I don't know, since getting sent to school with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was pretty standard when…

I love Linda Ellerbee. Our World was also amazing. Imagine in 2014 a bunch of early 20-somethings eagerly gathered around a television waiting for a weekly network mini-documentary to be broadcast. I was one of many. I suppose the Ken Burns documentaries can attract this kind of devotion if you have the patience to…

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean for you to do research into something vile like this. I thought you might happened to have known something about Sandy Hook deniers that I didn't. I live in NY and Monroe (CT, where Sandy Hook Elementary is) is not exactly a commuter town but close enough and I had never heard of anyone…

I normally just google references that I don't understand but this is something I don't want to touch and you're a sane and faithful commenter so I will ask: why does anyone believe Sandy Hook didn't happen? To what end? To make parents afraid to send their children to public schools when this kind of thing doesn't…

I'm really sorry, I meant to reply to another commenter about how not into it this older backup singer seemed. I try to read extant comments so I don't replicate and then scroll back and sometimes I hit the wrong commenter to reply to. Since you are the Finger of God you know that I am sincere when I say Mea culpa,…

Yes! She's also 81 years old, and Dionne Warwick's aunt. So if your daughter were Whitney Houston, your son-in-law Bobby Brown, had two grandchildren who were sleeping together, and Dionne Warwick fading in and out of your psychic network, and agreed to sing backup to "Rolling in the Deep" (behind Aretha Franklin,…

The Hippocratic Oath: But first, do no harm that can be verified by the state licensing board.

Fried Mayonnaise Ball. I had to google and wish I had eaten dinner before I became aware of this culinary treat. Oh well, it wouldn't kill me to skip a meal or two.

Blessed are the meek and the gaseous, for they shall inherit all the high fives that art in Heaven.