Those are great stories! I bet there are newspaper stories about your great-grandfather. My dad’s grandmother, my great-grandmother, was from Ireland, and apparently had an unusual last name for Co. Clare. I don’t know much about her - she died before my dad was born - but I mentioned her to an acquiantance who said,…

It took me years to grasp that my dad’s occasional sudden, unpredictable rages were traumatic, even if he never physically hurt me. Trauma doesn’t have to mean bruises and blood (though it can); emotional trauma can be just as daunting, particularly for sensitive kids.

I know, right?!? This is literally why I started researching my family tree — to see if I could find evidence of this and other crazy stories. And this one is definitely true — I also found some contemporaneous articles from 1916 when it actually happened. (Great-grandpa died in 1924.) Apparently the Germans also took…

This isn’t my story; I’m pretty sure I’m a psychic null. But this is why mother thinks the rest of our family is at least a little bit psychic.

Sorry, Jr., this isn’t going to make Daddy love you like he loves your sister.

If it helps, it’s about them learning to be less vapid once they’re no longer rich?  

I clicked through to the University of Richmond maps, and their descriptions of different neighborhoods are chilling. Here’s what it says about my old neighborhood, Cambridgeport, in Cambridge, MA, which was redlined: they actually describe the presence of various populations as “Infiltration”.

Umm, that is not the big news about the youngish royals. Word on the tweets is that Kate dumped their friend because she and William were shagging:

How on earth are you supposed to pronounce it? “Tay - (pause) - Lor”? Is the apostrophe silent?

I remembered this article about a child with the same condition; as a teething infant, she chewed her lips bloody in her sleep.  It sounds like a nightmare.

To quote Jesus in Matthew 6:5, “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.” 

Hey, this sounds like the sex ed program we had at my middle school! We passed around a cup and spit in it to demonstrate that when you have sex, you’re also having sex with every person your partner ever had sex with. That was it.

The law industry is cratering, and I know many lawyers who are either miserable or are who have quit law but are still saddled with crushing law school debt. Unless you feel a real yen to be a lawyer, you made the right choice.

I’m pretty sure he can’t afford any PR people anymore, which may explain this.

The metaphor I use is that being depressed is like endlessly treading water in the deep end. With treatment and antidepressants, I can at least hang on to the side of the pool.

Thanks for clarifying.  I’m glad you find a good use for them!

Dumb question, but what is a “bad order”? People who place an order but don’t pick it up? People who refuse an order, like the woman I once saw reject a take-out pizza because it had browned in the oven?

Maybe it’s that my Girl Scouts troop was really awesome and I want my 4-year-old son to have similar experiences, but I wish the Boy Scouts would become more like the Girl Scouts instead.

There’s a great blog called “Hanzismatter” that translates tattoos written in Chinese characters: http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/?_sm_au_=iVV6KNZQ7QM5WM6V

Also a great time to re-up this thread of epic burns of Stone’s 2017 inauguration outfit: