Smitten Kitchen has what looks to be a great recipe for medovik that only takes 2 days due to icing: https://smittenkitchen.com/2016/10/russian-honey-cake/

I sat down at my kitchen table, read the nonpartisan booklet provided to me, filled out my ballot, then drove to my local rec center and handed my ballot off to a pollworker a week ago. #Colorado

Yeah the ability to sort of blur-focus your eyes is very helpful on the street or the subway. Not looking down, not looking at anybody in particular.

Don’t ignore your gut! If you haven’t read The Gift of Fear, consider checking it out.

I never demanded, he never demanded - I know the passcode to his phone because it’s easier to change the music in the car that way, he knows mine too. We access our emails sometimes from the same computer - I accidentally searched his emails for something I meant to look for in mine. But I don’t see a reason to ever…

If you’re having trouble getting the Alexa to understand you, I can recommend doing the voice recognition training available in the app. I did it and I almost always get a response, even if my voice is weird (like accidentally mid-yawn, or I’m sick). My fiancé has trouble being heard correctly but he’s yet to do the…

Yeah, it’s funny - a lot of my friends and family said that to me right when the Wicked musical came out. It’s called aquagenic uticaria. BOOOOOO

I also react to my own sweat and in most water - ocean, pool, shower, whatever. It’s not the chemicals in the water, it’s the H2O itself.

A star’s just not really enough for this comment.

Yes, it’s a lot to do with an ingrained sense of entitlement. Warped.

Barista: person whom *the creep in question* sees every day. Maybe they come at the same time, too, so they usually see the same barista, because work schedules. But they don’t have enough social awareness to realize that the barista sees so so many other people that are not The Creep.
Then The Creep realizes that the…

About what you would think. Some are good, some are bad, but the same song over and over does eventually get old... :-)

Oh, no way is it easy. I have a similarly trusting fiancé (for reasons that IMO stem more from being a white man raised in a small town) and there are times when he just “doesn’t get it.”

Absolutely. I completely agree about “would rather seem an asshole,” even if a person seems nice, because if they are really nice, they will understand.

The staggering difference in safety between someone offering help and asking someone specific for help really was an eye-opener for me. I’ve mentioned it to basically everyone I know.

Let’s be clear about what the threat is.

Knitting tensely along, myself

Maybe he’s high? We’re trying to figure out what he’s on. Seems overall calmer and his eyes are red...

It’s actually the reverse - quadroon meant one black grandparent, octaroon one black great-grandparent. (See below comments)

Not younger-than-her-own-daughter younger, though. I told my dad when he started dating that his dates needed to be “old enough to have me as a child.” Thankfully my dad is super family focused so he’s now married to my wonderful stepmom (who has 2 kids who are actually older than me!).