Location and environment are also extremely important factors. When I was a small child (under 8) in Indiana in the early to mid- 90s, we lived in a subdivision where everyone knew everyone else and there was a great deal of trust. My parents never worried about where I was when I was out playing or if I would be okay…

This is really timely, because we just finished an article on Ada in the reading class I teach to fifth graders. They're Korean kids, so it's a very simplified biography, but the kids were suitably impressed by her vision, especially the girls.

My husband and I argue about really silly things all the time. A small sampling include:

My husband is currently between jobs so he goes to sleep whenever he wants. I work 9am-6pm so I'm on a set schedule. This wouldn't be a big problem if we lived in a bigger apartment, but in our current apartment both the TV and computer are in the bedroom, so when he stays up late I end up banished to the guest room.…

In his defense he doesn't speak much English and therefore doesn't really understand the lyrics. He just thinks the tune is nice (and to be fair I can belt it out pretty well).

It's unlikely anyone will see this (the curse of the greys~), but I need help picking a song to sing at my wedding. Hubs has gotten it into his head that a) I need to sing and b) that it needs to be "My Heart Will Go On." I've come to terms with the singing part, but I refuse to do that song for a variety of reasons,…

When I came to Korea three years ago all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and naive, I didn't bother changing money before I came to the country, figuring I'd do it at the airport when I arrived. Of course, by the time I got off the plane some 19 hours later, I was exhausted, having only slept in fits and starts the whole…

My husband and I are having our ceremony next month, and only the fact that I'm not in my native country is keeping the guest list under 300. Husband's side alone is 200.

A close high school friend went to BYU and lost her respect for the church sometime during the first year. She still liked the curriculum and her classes, but she was horrified that the advisors and counselors treated all their female students like dirt, expecting them all to either drop out to get married or to get…

So I just found out that I got screwed over pretty seriously by my previous employer, and I'm trying to decide what to do about it.

My mother works at a Baptist university, and they are strictly anti-dancing. The students don't even throw parties or get

Yeah, I've come close a couple of times, but never actually finished vaginally (and I'm 99% sure it's because he was also doing sone clit action). :( I just wish it was easier!

Not gonna lie, I horked a bit reading this.

I've met some random Korean celebrities (Bryan from ex-Fly To The Sky, Eru, a random boyband called FIX that I'm not even sure is around anymore, some famous gagmen who went to college with my husband, Kim Woo-bin who looks like a very pretty alien, etc), but I haven't had any significant celebrity encounters from the…

My best friend in high school wore that same dress for our junior prom. In 2005. So that particular horrid 90s trend survived for a few more years. *shudder*

I also live on the other side of the world from my parents, and we still only talk maybe once every three or four months. I love them, but it's hard getting schedules to match, since they're usually either sleeping or at work or out doing whatever fun thing they want to do, so we don't call as much as we should.

My husband is between jobs at the moment, but even when he was working I out-earned him by a good 30%. And you know what? We were both fine with it. Now he's doing the stay-at-home thing, so I come home to a nice clean house and clean laundry and news of whatever fun thing he's ordered through the home shopping…

Really? I never heard about any of this. :/

As silly as the premise sounds, this thing was SO GOOD. My husband hated it, so I always had to kick him out of the living room every Wednesday and Thursday night when it was airing. I laughed. I cried. I ordered chicken and beer. I regretted getting married before I could meet my own uptight beautiful alien man.

My grandfather ended up raising his much younger sister along with his own five children after it came out that their stepfather was being abusive (not sexually or physically, but doing shit like denying her braces and not taking her to the doctor for a really terrible skin condition she had) and their mother wasn't…