Wholeheartedly agree about the specific cat.

As another infertile adoptee, I definitely agree with this.

Oh man, I had the couch and (most) of a family waiting to hear from me...and it was also a hard experience. They were strangers to me, I was family to them. My adoption didn’t provide a “better life” to her like I’d always imagined. While I’m grateful for my life and my family, it seems like it came at a very high…

I have face blindness and I can still pick out my loved ones in pictures. You are still able to identify them by hair style, posture, etc. Now if you put my loved ones in costume or sent a picture after a drastic haircut/makeover...my odds would be lower.

8 weeks pregnant is only 4 weeks after you’re even capable of measuring the hormones of pregnancy. At 4 weeks you might not have even thought you missed your period because of implantation bleeding.

We keep a giant stack of el cheapo flour sack dish towels in a cabinet in the kitchen and a mini laundry basket on the counter for used towels. It makes it so much easier to practice better food safety!

We keep a giant stack of el cheapo flour sack dish towels in a cabinet in the kitchen and a mini laundry basket on…

Wash cloths are bad for sensitive facial skin. Use clean hands only if your skin is sensitive, acne prone, or you have rosacea

Wash cloths are bad for sensitive facial skin. Use clean hands only if your skin is sensitive, acne prone, or you…

I was a partially open adoption and when I met my birth mother it was a very unbalanced experience. They knew about me my whole life and got yearly updates and watched me grow up from afar. I knew I was adopted. That’s it. I met a bunch of strangers who treated me like family. It was and still is very weird to me. I…

Thank you for writing such a nuanced piece about adoption. I’ve read so many pieces over the years that only take one worldview into account, that I was expecting this article to make me angry. It did not.

You popped into my brain today and I don’t really know how else to contact you, so hopefully you see this eventually. Hoping you’re doing well and hoping you’ve gotten to a better place. There are still people you’ve touched who think of you!

I have my moms “yearbook” from American Airlines flight attendant school in 1968 if you’d like me to send you some scans!

Completely agree about tea! But I do love a fruity hibiscus or orange tisane. Which some people also call tea. They’re tart, lightly sweetened with dried fruit, and don’t taste like leaf water!

Ive actually had a problem with lots of sheets mentioned in the comments unraveling and getting thin with age too quickly but not these sheets! The only time I’ve had to throw a set away was because my dogs chewed a hole in them! The other brands I’ve tried lasted 2 years max. So annoying

Ive actually had a problem with lots of sheets mentioned in the comments unraveling and getting thin with age too…

Rotting fish more than semen. At least for the pair in my back yard that are 40 ft tall and I can touch from my deck lol

After the Girl Scout cookie nonsense earlier, I thought all of the Jez staff was out of their minds. I’m glad to see that at least one of you is sane!! Stools are especially awful when you have knee problems and need to readjust regularly!

You were closer the first time around. Thin mints are the only girl scout cookie I’ve seen people fight over

Lol I don’t know what kinds of pets you have, but mine are easy to train and would definitely be helpful in the apocalypse!

Who are all the whackadoodles voting for bees?! I thought for sure BC would whack out bees. And now bees are beating pets and I just don’t get it! Pets are way better than bees. There are other pollinators but no one you can trust like your pup! Another bonus: your pup can fight for you and protect you and hunt for…

My guesses:

For those of us with mobility problems, kitten heels are about the only way we can fit in on certain occasions. We get it. You don’t like them. So don’t buy them. Be glad they’re available to purchase for others that have a different life than yours though.