Ok, I was interested before, but now I HAVE to see this movie! Just the preview was making me tear up.

I lived in France for a bit, and one of the teachers I worked with was from Normandy. Once when I was over at her house for dinner, she served us some of her dad's homemade hard cider. It had such a high alcohol content that she just poured a bit of it over a sugar cube in a teacup and we ate it with a spoon. It…

That first one. The whole thing was awful, but at the end, where you could hear him shushing her? I'm crying.

Oh, ok! I was trying to figure out what on earth "prefecture" meant in that context.

Oh boy, do I know that feeling. In grad school, my department had a lot of bitter ex-Christians. There were lots of "Uh, THOSE people" conversations that made me feel pretty awkward and sad. I tried to verbalize the idea that I understood and respected the fact that their experiences with the church were very bad,…

Wow, I'm sorry your time in my home state was so miserable. I'd like to think we're usually better than that, but you certainly met up with some of the worst we have to offer. Did you go to Ball State?

Ah. Maybe a hospital gown and some kind of medical thingy. That would make sense. Thanks! I felt so stupid because the whole point of symbols like that is to be super obvious, yet I was not getting it at all.

I can't figure out this symbol. Somebody help me out, please. It's someone in a long dress, but maybe with a drapey thing? Is it a person in a sari? I have this sneaking suspicion I'm gonna feel like an idiot when someone spells it out for me.

For me, the weird and sad thing about these lists is that they take things that can be good when appropriate (and when they're reciprocal) and turn them into Everyday Rules For Women. Which turns supportiveness into being a second-class relationship partner pretty quickly. For example, we should be able to expect…

Jolie's method is very similar to my mother's, which I learned as a kid. In fact, I didn't realize I was special for being able to fold a fitted sheet. I'll have to add that to my list of Things I Used to Think Were Normal. As it turns out, my mom is a genius.

Oh, it's definitely stupid, but in a fun way (if you like that kind of thing, and I do).

Your comment made so much more sense when I realized that French Montana is a person. I was trying to figure out what region would be the Montana of France and what that has to do with crawling back up dancers.

That article was amazing. So inspiring!

As I said earlier, this issue fills me with helpless rage, but finding out that one of the outbreaks occurred in a pediatric oncology ward? Dammit, that could have been my friend's little boy. I wish I could grab all the anti-vaccination people by the collar and just shake and shake them until either they have some…

Agreed. This is one of those issues that just fills me with helpless rage. Mostly at the guy who started all this shit in the Lancet, but also at all the well-intentioned but impervious-to-evidence people who have carried on his "work."

I'm such a sucker for dimples.

Would wear.

This has been the year that I shopped a lot at . . . Meijer. I just bought two summer dresses last week that fit great and I love the colors and patterns. I bought some great pjs there last summer that have held up well through multiple washings. I also found this awesome sweaterdress that I just love. Seriously,…

NOPE!

This dress is lovely and looks great on her.