Last week (July 5-11) was probably the roughest damn week of my life. I knew it’d be tough, as I was working and preparing to perform in Shakespeare in the Park this weekend...

Ha! Well, this is exactly how my ex managed to hide our separation for so long. I’d asked him how he was keeping all of this hidden, and he said he would just tell his parents/family members/friends that I was out or working when they called (I worked retail, so it made sense that I might be working any time between 9…

Thank you for this. When my ex left, he was way more broken up over it than I was. I was honestly surprised that it ended up that way too. Maybe on some level I always knew he had one foot out the door anyway? less than two years later, I was married to a guy friend who eventually confessed feelings for me right after…

When MommyFatale was still with us, she and I made jam all through the summer as fruits ripened. It was fun, easy, delicious, and my GOD were those jars of jam beautiful. She used to say they looked like jewels, and she was right. Make your own jam, call it artisanal if you must. Even the best store-bought preserves…

One of those special “un-cooperation agreements.”

I had one guy call up throwing a fit because he wasn’t allowed into one of our stores without a mask “and I have a medical condition!” If your health is so fragile you can’t wear a mask YOU SHOULD NOT BE OUTSIDE. 

Fuuuuck! This situation really tests one’s humanity. So many people have suffered (and will continue to suffer) and so many have died from this illness. A decent person wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

“she’s got huuuuuuuuge...... !” bless you for this reference hehe

In repose, my bosom lacks pep; rather than two beautiful grapefruits floating aloft on my solar plexus, they more closely resemble those grapefruits encased in a tube sock and left to hang free.

‘I felt less like a woman from the 1970s and more like the sentient garbage heap in Fraggle Rock.’

And the cycle continues.

I don’t even know--jinni and others routinely pull me out but I got banned years ago with no explanation.

I apologize. I have not seen Boogie Nights and I was a child when it came out and so I can’t tell if your comment is clever/funny from reading the Wikipedia summary so I’m bringing it out of the greys anyway.

How are you not out of the grays? I’ve seen you on here forever, it seems. I’m just now on my third stupid burner and if you’re still gray, then I have no hope. 

Exactly. Some kind of “Just Because It’s Legal Doesn’t Make You A Good Person” type of rethinking life choices.

From Page Six: “Another woman, Colleen Riley, posted a 2014 message from D’Elia in which he asked her to “make out,” followed by another in which she said, “Chris, I’m 16.” D’Elia’s camp gave us another email in that chain, in which he allegedly replied, “Oh sh**. I thought you were at my [standup] show. Gotta be 18…

I initially thought the Zooey Deschanel divorce announcement said they would remain committed to “most of our children” which honestly would have been hysterical to me.

That’s so hard, I don’t have any advice I’m afraid, I just hope that your husband takes own well being into account soon.

Hey, all. Exhausting couple of weeks dealing with my MIL, who is rapidly running the family’s property management business into the ground since my FIL’s death from COVID in April. DH had been basically running the business on his parents’ behalf for years, but they (mainly, his mother) had refused to put anything in…

What have you been cooking and eating? It’s so hot here, I know people in Arizona or the middle of Australia will say pfft! but we’re not used to almost 90 degrees (that’s 30 for the celsius people) here.