Back in the early 2000s I moved in with a now ex-boyfriend. He lived in a bungalow style house in one of the neighborhoods of a large midwestern city. This happened when I was taking a personal day from work after moving in to finish getting things arranged and unpacked.

My parents thought they were just going to have one chid-me. My mom had my brother the summer before I started fourth grade. I was *relatively* okay with this. My mom had a c-section, and her mom came to stay because my baby brother was freaking huge and my dad had to get back to work.

Two years ago, I got severely, awfully sick (probably the flu). I didn’t go to work for the entire week. It was all I could do just to keep myself drinking liquids and soup and shuffling to bed. The worst part was my husband was traveling for business, so I was all alone, just me and our sweet black cat Libby.

When my husband and I got engaged, I was living with a roommate. To save money for the wedding, rather than re-upping my lease, I moved back into my childhood home. This meant my parents and grandparents (who lived there) were always keeping an eye out to be sure we weren’t fornicating.

So, being creative, young…

My thoughts exactly. It wasn’t about appreciating their soft hand on this issue but the fact that they ever thought they could say shit about shit when it comes to this country’s affairs.

They didn’t though. Maybe not as an organisation but priests stood in front of congregations every Sunday. Lots of reports of homilies calling for no.

Minor quibble, but I don’t really “appreciate” that about the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church committed mass crimes against women (unwed mothers) and children, not just in terms of the horrific level of clergy child abuse, but also in terms of how babies of unwed mothers were treated, in Ireland. In my view, they…

To be fair, U2 have expressly endorsed the pro-choice side in the Irish campaign, much more explicitly than Ed Sheeran. The fallout on Twitter from their anti-choice fans was a delight.

Well he could have said he supports women and their choice and access to safe proper medical care and improving abortion access especially for Irish women that travel to obtain abortion. Or maybe he could just sing a damn song promoting and celebrating birth control in all its many glorious forms and donate all the…

It’s a snake, right? Like, I get it but I don’t get it.

That’s ridiculous. What podunk place do you live in that they have time to do that?

my obgyn once delivered a baby that was HOLDING ONTO THE IUD THAT TRIED TO THWART IT.

Okay so it’s not really “gross” and I probably told this story before, but it’s still hilarious to me.

During my second pregnancy I was plagued with recurrent episodes of pinkeye (like, twice a month at least). Since my sister’s FIL was my older kid’s pediatrician I was seeing him regularly (my first kid was still a baby when I got pregnant for the second time, oops). One of his sons is an ophtalmologist and when I met…

When I was about fourteen (decades ago), I was at the Los Angeles airport during some renovation (is there an airport in the world that doesn’t have some kind of construction going on at all times?). There was a hole in the bathroom wall above the sinks, and a woman’s big traveling black & white cat escaped and…

I witnessed a homeless man having sex with an Airblade hand dryer in a public restroom at a train station in Sydney. At first, he was humping the thing from the side, sticking his business into the stream of cool air. Then he stood on his toes and dipped himself into it. I remember thinking “To his credit, that…

My friend used to work at a burrito chain, and a homeless man would come in somewhat frequently. One day he ordered a burrito and locked himself in the bathroom for an unusually long time. When he left my friend went in and saw the burrito on floor, with crumpled paper towels around it. Not eaten but obviously had…

The thing that grosses me out the most about American public toilets is how high the stall walls and door are. You can virtually see your neighbour checking the loo roll to see if they’re done next to you. How the fuck is that a thing in any civilised country???