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"Committed to personal growth" - now there are the exact words I've been looking for to populate my list's #1 spot. Thank you for that. My last relationship taught me that the opposite - "committed to personal distraction so as to avoid any possible growth or ego damage" - is so alive and well that this has gone from

We can speak however we want, just so long as we make sure to bring along that guy that lists all the side effects in those pharmaceutical ads and let him rattle off the disclaimers for us. Seriously - he talks really fast. He will only be noticed long enough so that no one can gripe that you haven't covered all

Introverts unite! Individually... and anonymously!

Please do this! I'll buy them

I'm confused as well. I use the plastic applicator ones, and the plastic wrapper really is not any bigger than the applicator itself - just enough to cover it. I must be missing something important here. Wouldn't be the first time.

You don't need to let go of a belief in the afterlife to reject the things organized religion teaches that don't make sense to you. Follow your gut. We're not all right about everything, and we're not all wrong either. That's where I'm at as well. The more I connect with my own spirituality, the more the written

Oh I needed the biggest external change more than you can imagine - moved from downtown San Francisco to the ocean. Everything else is taking care of itself now.

Not bad. Making a lot of positive changes, inside and out. Thanks for asking :)

She actually is - sort of - kidding. Watch the video that goes with the article. She did actually get into college. Maybe not her "dream college," but she did get into one.

Hmm. It was sooo many years ago (when I was a kid) and all I remember thinking was, Oh look this butter is soft and spreadable! And then almost puking when I tasted it. Wonder if something else was up with that stuff.

You're not making that up. Rancid butter is beyond awful. Unfortunately I know this from experience. If you don't go through it quickly, don't tempt fate.

No, it's not. And the sign they always posted on the door - "so our employees may have time for family and worship" or something to that effect - always made me angry somehow, like they were accusing me of spurning God and family just by showing up there at all, just so I could paint a picture on a Sunday with a new

USA Today posted an article about this that says he actually wrote the obit himself, and that his family found it after he died. Sounds like an awesome family :)

Wednesday nights are terrible. I worked at an ice cream store in Austin the summer before I went to college, and one Wednesday night due to a scheduling problem, the guy I was supposed to work with was stuck at his other job at the grocery store. So I was 17 and all alone in the store when the church across the street

That sounds an awful lot like the Mexican restaurant a lot of my college friends worked at just east of Dallas back in the early 90's... next door to a big evangelical church that had some kind of copper-looking roof. The Sunday afternoon stories were truly horrible. Every time I drove past there I thought, "You

Her mother is the governor, actually. I want to say that makes it worse somehow but I can't really justify it.

Maybe. Perhaps a bit sleepy-eyed though.

Yes it is, and I knew it when I said it.

Sometimes it's hard to separate the simplicity and ease with which advice is delivered from the implication that taking that advice should be just as simple and easy. It's that implication that sets people off, causing them to feel dismissed, especially in such a loaded context. Obviously that was not your original

Likewise, how do you know about anyone's level of - or lack of - happiness?