Yeah. I love my mom, but she wasn't the most sensitive lady. The first time I went bra shopping with her she went barreling through the department store lingerie section declaring to the sales lady that she was looking for a "BAZONGA HOLDER" for her first daughter.

I got my first period at camp. Girl Scout Space Camp. I was 11. Early enough for it to be mortifying and for no one to have thought to have had the "body changes" talk with me. I had been looking forward to Space Camp for some time because I am a giant nerd, but amid our tours of Houston's rockets and various NASA…

It depends on where you live but you can definitely get good jobs with no college degree… I live in south Louisiana and they're desperate for people to take skilled labor jobs in shipyards and on oil rigs. Often they'll pay for your technical education because they always have more work than people willing to take…

I think more Millennials vs. Olds are doing this because its easier to travel when you're young and unattached unless you're rich and have a good job with solid vacation.

Hey Jolie, do you think your bad car smell instructions could help with a bad fish smell that's EVERYWHERE? My SO and I recently inherited a weekend share in our family's beach cabin. My MIL always refused to go up there and vaguely described it as "rustic," and it turns out it's because all the men go there to fish,…

Seriously. I pretty much only take off my underwear for sexy times, and it goes right back on afterward. I'll sleep without a shirt, but never without my undies. It's like a vagina security blanket.

I met my last boyfriend when were were chatting at a bar and he suddenly asked, "Do you want to kiss?" And I thought, he's cute and I haven't kissed anyone in awhile and I appreciate your directness. "Sure!"

My mom is a surgical nurse and I'm sure all other nurses will beat me at this, but I will always remember my mom's helpful conversation with me while I was on the bus home from class. This was in the early 2000s when "anal virgins" were trending as a social topic:

That's what's ironic. Jindal doesn't support government health care. He also recently dismantled the government-supported charity hospital system that was unique to the state of Louisiana (created by Huey Long) that used to provide indigent health care in the state. So I'll make you incubate your baby for 9 months if…

Cause he's sitting there pulling on his floppy little dongle, excited by all the trolling he's doing on a Sunday morning.

Yeah, you're right. It's definitely easy for staring to be creepy. But when it's right, it's oh so right!

A few years ago in college after a night of drinking the sexy-scruffy-reckless-rock band frontman Arts editor at the college newspaper I worked for asked me to give him a ride home and then invited me up for a cigarette. We had been friends for years and I am also kind of oblivious so we smoked and chatted for a…

Deep Woods OFF is pretty much the only mosquito repellent to use. I worked for years with scientists in the swamps of south Louisiana and hosed myself down with this shit daily. Obviously you shouldn't be eating it or anything, but when it comes down to contracting one of the million varieties of encephalitis I could…

True. I had a cat we named Gordon but used to call Gordie. Great cat name.

Some people don't particularly value that 'simple ceremony' though. I don't really want to get married any time soon, mostly because having a wedding doesn't interest me at all. I don't doubt the commitment in my relationship, and it's not like we don't talk about our future together. We do. We plan on making it legal…

Haha. My mom spent 40 years working as an OR nurse and recovery room nurse and she is the queen of Dansko clogs. At least they're kind of offbeat. When she bought her first pair of Crocs I was Very Disappointed.

I hear you… buy new underwear pretty regularly but for some reason it takes me forever to throw my panties away. I should probably feel like a hypocrite because I'm always teasing my boyfriend about his hole-y shirts and boxers but I will wear undies on period days or lazy days until they literally self-destruct or…

I was working as an environmental reporter for a small daily newspaper in coastal Louisiana when the 2010 Gulf oil spill happened. I went from covering weird animals that people found in the bayou to huge press conferences and presidential visits overnight. Because I was writing multiple stories about the oil spill…

UPDATE: Boyfriend just got offered a salaried job with a place he interviewed at a few months ago making $5,000 more a year than I make. His last day of work was on Sunday and he gets offered a job out of the blue two days later. It's not really what he wants to do but he's considering taking it because its an office…

Yeah, I think that's what annoyed me the most (him telling me after the fact) cause I just went through a long period of job searching/interviewing and discussed everything with him. He was apologetic for not telling me, I think he was just was really ready to quit and was afraid I'd react badly when he told me, which…