Yes! One of the many things That makes Louise Penny unique is that the Gamache books aren’t just a collection of mysteries. She has built that world to be so rich and deep. It shifts like life, and the situations are eerily true, often because they are petty and sad. It’s not like there’s a specific conspiracy or end…

I really don’t want to do the dating site thing. Most of the men I’ve met over the past few years have been far less entertaining than an evening in with my cats, so it’s not like I’ve been suffering. That is a great way to look at it.

Thank you for this! Most of the times that I was most social and sexually active were tims that I was kind of miserable because I was actively fighting my introversion. Accepting that has made the time off from dating feel very good most of the time. It’s good to hear that people have understood relationship gaps.…

It really is the worst. I thought I would be able to move sooner, but I switched jobs so I wanted to take some extra time, and I’ll be in a much better financial position next year. I’m not a fan of casual dating and I don’t want anything serious tying me here. Taking time off has been really valuable, and I think I…

I envy you reading them for the first time now! Go slowly and savor them. You will have withdrawal when you’re done.

A few people in my extended family drop casually racist comments from time to time. I’ve tried explaining the problems with their comments in an intellectual way, in a way that appeals to religious beliefs or basic decency, in a way where I pull up stats on my phone. In about a hundred other ways. There is nothing…

I’m reading Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series, which is excellent. The next Louise Penny book comes out on the 29th and I’m super excited for that.

Anyone out there have advice for breaking a dry spell? A few years ago I simultaneously became really concerned with the amount of time and energy I was putting into dating and men’s opinions, and was assigned a ridiculous project at work that ate up most of my time. I’ve been asked out, and hit on here and there, but…

There are very few things in the world that bring me an instant, profound sense of peace and comfort the way that Terry Gross’s voice does. She is a goddamn national treasure.

Lush is the best! “Light from a Dead Star” is as moving to me now as it was when I was 16, and “Ladykiller” is still SO relevant (and is also still a great addition to a cardio playlist).

I.. I just can’t tell if this is funny or not. This week has been one gut punch after another and I am so mentally tired.

This was an exceptional, haunting, amazing article.

Fucking hell. This is so shameful. Wasteful. Stupid. Nonsense. Regressive.

He won’t stop any leaks with this move. He’s just using the tried and true Republican strategy of doing something shitty and justifying it with a reason that makes no sense. It’s all excuses.

JLo is stunning as ever, but does she not have a friend to help her with her bad taste? I know that Leah Remini is busy taking down Scientology right now, but someone need to sit JLo down and have a serious intervention. She needs someone to explain how to make better choices in dresses and men.

I will see any project that Sarah Polley is associated with in any way. I miss seeing her in acting roles, but her directing work has been amazing. In both acting and directing sheseems to make interesting, thoughtful choices. There’s no way that her working with a story from Margaret Atwood is not going to be good.

I’m ambivalent about this. On one hand, he’s awful and not good at his job, so this is fine. On the other, does this mean no more Melissa McCarthy as Spicer on SNL? That sucks.

Yes, it is true that someone could do that- which I noted in my post. That was my point. Schools should have the right to restrict anything that could be used to conceal a face.

Would that everyone had a Grandfather Funk as a role model! Awesome story.

I try to be respectful to people of faith, but I can’t say I don’t agree with you. If people were better, and could hold their beliefs without making a huge show of it all the time and bucking sensible secular laws, it would be okay. The last year or so has made me think that will never be the case.