DEAR FLORIDIANS, You’ve had lots and lots and lots of advance warnings about how catastrophic this storm was likely to be, and enough time to actually WALK away from life threatening impending disaster. Literally. If you’d started strolling last week, you’d be out of the danger zone today. Yeah, you’d have to leave…

That sounds pretty wonderful to me, after growing up in suburbia, I’ve spent the whole rest of my life getting ruraler and ruraler.. I love privacy, and nature, and knowing my friends REALLY have to make a comittment to come visit me lol! Now that I’m getting older, it’s harder to live my dream- I moved into a…

Me? I grew up in brand new suburbia in SoCal in the 60's. 4 kids in the family (I’m 2nd, and oldest girl) and lots of kids in 3 out of 4 houses in this SuburbiaLand. It was 15 minutes by mom car to Disneyland, where older kids could be dropped off with a 10 dollar bill to do all day rides AND lunch, usually at the…

I respect both these very good long term actors. Now enough of celebrities, could you please edit, enlarge and enhance that awesome looking gondolier on the far left? Humma-humma (Girl version of Hubba-hubba)

Thanks TampaBee! You’d asked for some good news stuff and by jove, I really feel like this was good news in my world. Life can be such a shit sandwich that it’s great to discover a tasty bite of life now and then. I enjoy reading your posts, and love your attitude, have a great week! Magz

My first summer in a real house house (not a mobile home) is going pretty great, I’m landscaping and building and weeding my manageable sized backyard like crazy! My son (Bless his once Evil li’l dope slinging Time Served heart that’s now softened) is now my landlord- he grew up. He now owns a fair percentage of a HUD…

I must agree with her basic point- remember that I am an ‘Old’ and still greyed in 99% of my comments despite the years I’ve followed Gawker Media.

My son is now 30, and I mostly raised him as a single parent. Mostly in an old, thin walled single wide mobile home. I also like men, love sex, and am an appriciative loud lay if he’s any good at all. I have always been picky about my partners, didn’t run a revolving door every-night-a-stranger, never hid them from my…

Ooh this is fun! Ask me,

I think it’s because he’s never ever ever used them

I live in the desert. I work outdoors.I don’t do makeup or sunscreen, though I do wear a hat most times, and I use lotion or oil almost every day to keep from itching. My skin color matches, face to feet. WTF is wrong with these pix, eh?

A friend finally talked/shamed me into my first mammogram when I was 42, nearly 20 years ago. I am quite chesty, and I wasn’t thrilled with the squishing of boob flesh, but I was proud of myself for submitting. Until the next week, when they called me back in for an intensive as they said they’d found some…

Sigh. He really is a sloppy kind of man, huh. I see no respect on his part for the office he holds, my my my. Miss Manners would likely give a barely audible ‘sniff’ whilst hoping he might ask for a bit of etiquette advice..

I too, have always fucking loved Keen-o! (That’s the way I still pronounce his name in my head- sue me) That is all...

Awww, you sweet City Folks just don’t get it, huh. We Boonie Buddies are just all over the truck fucks, cause we live where the stars shine, the roads are all dirt, and most older trucks come equipped with a roomie bench seat, if ya do the inside thing, with both doors open. ALL trucks have big beds outside, all ya…

I’m willing to step outside my nice polite Old Lady self that I’ve always been here just to say What The FUCK are you thinking, CA? I say this as a native SoCal Gal, born and raised behind the Orange Curtain of Suburbia.

Truck insurance! Every 6 months I stress and scrimp and save to pay minimum insurance on a 23 yr old pickup, well I did the other day. And did the Happy Dance kickin up these 60 yr old arthritic heels for I am legal and rollin in style again. (Truth; my son helped me some this round but I claim Double Adulting- I…

I love your goal! My absolute bestest advice for how to be strong and confident without being a jerk? Is to read Miss Manners whenever you get a few minutes. Browse her archives, I swear she is SO good at using etiquette and humor to demonstrate how to be, just be, a smart Woman in a dumb world. I love her to pieces,…

I’m doing me at home and mellow after a busy day. I mentioned here on a friendship thread my nifty neighbor Kay, she’s 75, cute, sweet, independent and a bit conflicted over her proposed move into town. She’s lived out here in an AZ boonie neighborhood for many years, she’s a retired hospital chaplain with a deep…

Well done! You’ve written well about my long term favorite subject, the What If Survivalism.