Holy crap, this is only the best thing ever. Ever!

Things are better now that my stepmother is no longer in the picture, but my mother loathed her (with good reason — I think it's perfectly understandable to loathe your husband's mistress, who is also 20 years your junior), so that made spending time with my dad fun. And when my dad and stepmother divorced, my dad…

Ugh, I have been trying to explain to my mother for two weeks why I don't have great associations with Christmas. I mostly associate it with my (divorced) parents being very passive aggressive about how much time they each got to spend with me. Now that I'm an adult, I find myself worrying about the cost of travel…

I knew a family that named each of their kids after words from the Grateful Dead song "Sugar Magnolia." Blossom, River, Air, Sky....

I have a beautiful portrait of my grandmother from the 1920s in which she's wearing a cowl-neck top and perfect finger waves. I'd love to know how she did it, since my hair holds a curl for about five minutes.

I had to google "playing gooseberry"; now that I know what it means, I suggest that JGL, his partner, my husband and I could all go out for a civilized dinner.

Yes! It's not that he doesn't want to sleep with me — he's not interested in my entire gender! My self-esteem is restored!

Am I the only straight woman who would be pleased if JGL was into dudes? Because then I could dream about hanging out with him and his boyfriend...

On Monday I discovered that our local mall already has all their Christmas decorations up. It did NOT make me want to go shopping, at all.

Lindsay Ann Miller has a cute blog explaining her situation, too. I hope she at least gets to meet JGL....

Maybe they fear wounding men's sensitive egos if they tell them their swimmers aren't up to crossing our channels? Seriously, I don't understand it either.

It's probably too much to hope that his responsibilities as guidance counselor extend only to college applications, huh?

I used to be into Fuckin' Bitch, but I heard one of their songs in a tampon commercial the other day. Sell-outs.

Hmm, I don't see a second one — I think one of the photos was flipped.

My husband's cousin served shrimp at her kids' bar and bat mitzvahs. Even as a goy, it felt wrong.

God, I think I've heard it all — "Pee after sex!" "Don't use perfumed soaps!" "Don't take baths!" "Wipe front to back!" "Wear cotton underwear!" "Take vitamin C!" And I was doing all of that, and still getting regular UTIs. I even went to a urologist, who found nothing wrong. I don't know if I grew out of them or…

For crying out loud, she wasn't a cat burglar — the website I saw said she was dressing up as a local soccer player.

I had chronic UTIs for about a year — at least once a month, usually more. Eventually, after seeing several specialists, my doctor gave me preventative antibiotics. I know they're wildly overprescribed, but that finally broke the vicious cycle for me. Also, Azo is a lifesaver.

I don't want straights in bad marriages to be unable to divorce. I want straight people to stop treating marriage like a fun thing to do on a Saturday night. Kim Kardashian has nothing to do with the fact that there are gay and lesbian couples that have been committed to each other for decades and who still can't…

Hello birthday twin! My husband and I usually throw a joint party, since his birthday is the 5th, but I love your idea....