To be fair, this is a weird old person thing, not a L/R, Rep/Dem thing. My grandparents did the same thing, plenty of my friends’ parents/grandparents did it, etc.

Meh. I don’t think I ever knew my mother or my two grandmothers to ever use their china. It’s a cultural thing. People don’t use the silver set either. “The good china” is a fkin’ racket perpetrated by Big Plate. I eloped, so never registered, but the nicest plates we own are Williams Sonoma’s daily line, and the…

I am 100% certain that the best way to get rid of Milo is to fill his speaking engagements with people listening to literally anything else on noise-canceling headphones. His fit would be epic.

This reminds me when I was like 7 I stood outside advertising a play in my backyard for 50 cents. A mom and her kid paid and came back, however I had forgotten the Key point of having a play to perform. 

Idiopathic stress incontinence that does not respond to any therapy does exist. It sucks and I hate it when I see it (2 patients in 10 years so far who have followed up enough for me to know they have it). Obviously very frustrating for doctor and infinitely more so for the patient. At the end of the day we’re all…

In the pre-brain injury days, when jinni was flush, she bought a sofa for $4,000. Yes. Not proud but there it was (it was also her bed) and it lasted only fourteen years. And, literally two months after purchase, Ikea opened in the Bay Area and had fairly well the same sofa for $200 or somesuch.

An apartment that is yours, that is is your queendom, where you make your own decisions and live your own life is a million times better than their posh houses and tacky furniture. Fuck ‘em.

I guarantee you it’s true. They’re either in debt or have parents paying for it. And the ones whose parents are doing it won’t be able to cope once mommy and daddy can’t foot the bill anymore or pass away. I’ve seen it. You can afford an apartment and your kids will be fine.

I moved into a one-bedroom apartment (so my son didn’t even have his own bedroom) after my marriage ended in 2000, and it was definitely a change after having lived in a nice house for the previous 13 years. But since I grew up in apartments and always lived in them before I got married, I got used to it again pretty…

Someone said that comparison is the robber of joy. You do your own best life, however that has to be. I hope you have someone you can reach out to IRL.

Hey, I’ve been the poor friend for 40 years. The one who rents and doesn’t owe a penny to anybody beyond said rent and utilities. You do you.

You will love that IKEA furniture because it’s yours, and you will look fabulous lounging on it and eating on it! Fuck everyone else and their FB-perfect lives. You’re taking care of you and that’s what’s important.

Amen! I quit Facebook a long time ago and never looked back. I have an Instagram, and think about deleting it all the time. A podcast I really enjoy, Hidden Brain, explored all this in last week’s episode: http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524005057/when-it-comes-to-our-lives-on-social-media-theres-always-another-story

Of course I can’t remember the specifics, but I read an article about the actual phenomenon of bragging oneself up on the Book of Faces/other social media and the corresponding phenomenon of people feeling like a loser and sad while reading posts of aforementioned braggers. Basically, I would bet that a lot of people…

Fellow divorcee here children help distract you from some of the worse side effects or at least mine did. Beware of other parents they can be real pricks to single parents.

If it makes you feel better, most people don’t post any shitty aspects of their lives on Facebook. They’ll gush endlessly about how their toddler learned to use the potty, but they sure as hell won’t talk about how that same toddler screamed for 30 minutes in the grocery store. That’s why I always try to post really…

I know social media isn’t the full story of anyone’s life but lately it seems like my Facebook feed is full of people taking trips-to Ireland, Hawaii, Disney World, New York, etc. Or they’re selling houses and moving into nicer houses. Or they’re all schmoopy about anniversaries. Meanwhile I’m contemplating divorce,…

I’ma disrupt disruption, and get RICH. Just as soon as I’m done innovating Innovation.

16. a dating app called “Blocked” that matches you with single people who live on your block automatically blocks every prospective date so you don’t have to deal with that shit

a plate of chili cheese fries that knows how many calories are in the table it’s resting upon