Women respond to a large variety of sexual stimuli. Women do not always accurately self report arousal, eg, they do not always know they are exhibiting signs of arousal.

I got up this morning and opened my cnn and wa po tabs, and there was no Trump. The relief was fantastic. Sure...I could have found something on him, but I didn’t know how backbreaking the burden of dealing with: Trump, a cult of Q anons, MAGAS, et all, as they spiraled farther and farther from facts into fanfiction-…

They’re called maneki neko, so, beckoning cat. Can’t be trumplike, they’re positive figures.

Exactly! I would have scratches all the way up my arms, possibly involving my face.

This overabundance of what you collect in gifts happened to me after I got a few wonderful old animal salt and pepper shakers. It started with a pair of long finned orange goldfish and two polar bears labeled “Alaska”, and I told people no more after it hit, oh, about 80 pairs.

A Furo tub! I love those!

Yes, there are people that use soaker tubs at least once a week. The big tubs are bigger -and deeper- than the standardized shallow tubs put in housing starting in the 1970's or so. Here’s my use guide: take a brief shower first, and then fill the bath. I have on demand hot water, so the bath doesn’t run out of hot,…

I call mine “Napping Cabin”.

Seconding you on the Korean makeup brands being a far better match for my pale olive -with a lot of freckles- skin.

I guess it’s the “usually” that doesn’t work for all of us pale olive skintones. The point that is made in the article that the seasons/colors MLM was designed for white women makes sense to me. If you have really mixed bloodlines you can have very turquoise eyes with a navy blue ring (hello winter), and heavily…

Not more than men have been benefiting from it. All men.

Anything chasing them around at Christmas is ok by me.

Not full on Krampus, then?

It’s facile to compare Norman Rockwell’s paintings to Soviet cold war propagandist paintings, but it’s not accurate. The Saturday Evening Post was not the American government. There is no sly wink, no acknowledgement of complexity or irony in socialist realism- it depicted what the Soviet state wished seen, happy farm…

Cats loooove blankets.

Trump first -and always- accuses others of the same crimes he is committing.

This smells like an effort to rebrand the 72 million the IRS “refunded” him.

I live in the Pacific Northwest now, and love fall days that are still warmish during the day and cool to cold at night. It is such a welcome change from the hot days -and nights- of summer.

I hate pumpkin spice lattes. And I am totally ok with pillorying them- so Puritan, for one thing, to put anything in the stocks and punish. I do get that as a writer paid to observe American culture, you’ve gotten the tone of pretzel logic -needed to observe a culture you’re part of- spot on. A few things,…

I will look for it, thanks!