If you suspect that your boyfriend has broken any rules or crossed a line that makes you feel angry, sad, betrayed, disrespected, or anything else you don't like feeling, you will find some way to discuss the event and/or your feelings with him; it is not acceptable to break the same rule yourself to "make it…

You must, both on and offline, indicate that you have a boyfriend, however, you may indicate that the relationship is "complicated/fucking weird."

Ugh - that is RIGHT OUT.

Well, in my experience, it was because I had a primary partner that I decided I wanted to maintain a home and long-term life goals with (and vice versa) but that there were life-enhancing and happy things to be gained through experiences and relationships with others that didn't necessarily extend to those life-long…

It sounds like an open relationship as envisioned by a 12 year old girl.

I love that you actually visited the educational places you said you would visit.

Apologies in advance for the length, but I went on a month-long trip with the Worst Woman In The World, and it takes some time to relate. The trip in question an around-the-world backpacking extravaganza with some grad school friends to celebrate our graduation before settling down to real life. Three of the women…

This isn't insane, but still one of my fondest travel memories.

My sister and I did something very similar in Hawaii back in 2002, when she was 13 and I was 18. There was no language barrier, though.

Oooh, once I was kayaking in the Puget Sound and a whole pod of orcas cruised right up to us. The size of those sea critters can be super impressive.

By the time I was 6, I had two little sisters. We went on our first family vacation that year, and (now that I know what kind of hell it is to share a hotel room with children) my parents weren't exactly relaxing. By the end of the trip, their plan was to load up the car while we were all still asleep (when you're…

On the last day of our drive from West Virginia to Seattle, my best friend and I stopped inside a seemingly ordinary gas station somewhere in Eastern Washington. Inside the bathroom, my friend—who ordinarily would not do such a thing—walked into a stall, gasped, and then called to me over all the other ladies in the…

Closing on 7 billion, there's gotta be somebody who only their mother could love, and their mother is dead.

Weirdhausen by Proxy.

"Excuse me, can I help you? Are you visiting someone?"

I live in England now and sold many of my books before moving over here. As a surprise for my birthday a few days ago, my husband and his mum bought me the entire set in the blue Harper dustjackets and box like I had before I came here. Though common in the US, they are pricier and hard to find over here. It made…

The Little House Cookbook? With recipes for vanity cakes, cambric tea, and green pumpkin pie? I love that book!

As someone who owns everything Laura Ingalls Wilder right down to her cookbook, this excites me.

I will devour this like so much maple sugar snow candy.

Ahhhhhh! I have been waiting my whole damn life for this! This is so exciting! Holy shit.