A friend of a friend did just that: refused chemo and tried to cure cancer the “natural way” ... and died. Now maybe she would have died even if she had chemo; there’s no telling. But before she died she talked a lot about feeling bad that she hadn’t tried everything possible. She felt she had been duped and had…

CURSE YOU FOR INVENTING SUMMER! I could forgive everything else, but not that.

Musta been tough explaining that when they enrolled her in kindergarten. “She’s actually 26; she’s just small for her age. And, uh, she needs to learn her letters and numbers and how to color inside the lines.”

Here is one of my favorite videos that might also help. It’s a few years old but it’s extremely therapeutic.

My cat does the same. I think head-butts are the cat version of kisses, and some of them realize that human kisses are the same as head-butts, so, head-butt to mouth makes perfect sense and is really no different from us kissing their heads. Just a bit more painful.

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To do him justice, he’s hell on grasshoppers. At least the ones who are asleep or nearly dead.

Try to take video of the cats and they will vanish like snow on a frying pan.

My cat is haughtier.

If you devote every hour of the rest of your life to fulfilling the whims of said kitten, we will allow you to apply.

My cats will never kill roaches. I mean, for awhile all I had were geriatric cats who would barely even watch bugs. The things could run over their paws and get nothing but a sleepy blink. But now I have a 4-year-old who will hunt anything ...except roaches. His favorite target is tiny, tiny black bugs, one of which…

“Hey, lizard, go outside and chill.”

Oh my God, how did I miss that? More importantly, how did the cat?

Ah, I had one of those. He was 20 and by the end I had to wake up and feed him every 2 hours at night, but it’s funny how you miss stuff that is so difficult while it’s happening. He has become the cat I dream about though. If the dream needs a cat for some reason, my brain always slots him in.

No, I think it is like that pretty much everywhere. I mean maybe in a convent or the Girl Scouts of America organization it is different, I don’t know. But what you are describing is what I have experienced everywhere I’ve ever worked, which is many places.

Yes, I have done this a million times at work. For things I am in charge of, I will go out of my way to make sure that Smart-Arrogant-Narcissist-Who-I-Need-to-Do-Work gets to strut his stuff in a meeting and feel like the smartest kid in the class, and if I do it right he ends up volunteering to do the thing I need…

Especially since the studies are showing that companies with more women leaders are more successful. Here’s a juicy quote from http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanada…

I like it if it comes after some conversation about different options. There’s an implied collaboration there and some room for someone else to say something to object or suggest an improvement. I mean of course it depends on who’s saying it to whom it’s being said, but I think it would work in most cases.

Actually, it does to me (I think). I just sort of feel better after reading your post!

YESSS. Where the fuck are the articles telling men they should use more qualifiers and apologize sometimes? I respond way better to “maybe we should do X” instead of “Go do X.” Men (and the occasional woman) who go around speaking in nothing but declarative or imperative sentences and are lightning-quick to blame…