I have a close friend who married her high school boyfriend of 4 years at 19. They had been dating since they were both 15, and she got pregnant within about a month of the marriage. He had never really experienced same-sex attraction because he actually loved her and she was his best friend. When you're told…

Um, my dad gave me a secondhand book which he didn't even bother to wrap. "I bought this for you, but I couldn't resist reading it before giving it to you. It is just so good and informative. I think you'll find it really helpful. And it's from a woman's perspective too, so that's important."

My granny obsessively buys things from mail-order catalogs. Some of them over the years have been amazing (wrinkle-free travel suit I'm looking at you). Others have been...interesting. The difficult thing with my granny is that, bless her, she tries to make jokes sometimes, and we can't tell the difference between…

I'm currently sewing Christmas lights on a tiny star costume, and my cat won't get off of it either!

Or, on a more serious note, a Feel Bright Light. I moved from Georgia to England and the lack of sunlight was making me all kinds of sad (and SAD). I wore this dorky sunvisor thing with green lights on it every morning while checking my emails, and it really helped, along with lots of sleep.

I just made a really weird face just to not cry. It didn't work very well.

In England, they have opened investigations into quite a lot of male children's television stars from the 70's and 80's. I wondered if (or rather when) something like this was coming for American television as well. People who like to prey on children and young women tend to do so repeatedly while working with/around…

I'm a sexual health educator (in the UK), and the WHO guideline that we use actually uses the words "long-term loving faithful relationship" and our organisation adds "such as a marriage, civil union or civil partnership." I was iffy with those words originally until I realized that many, if not most, of the…

I hafta say, if I had shedloads of money to spend and could pull it off, I would totally hire people to carry me around when my feet got all tired and hurty from heels. Unfortunately, I'm 5'9", so I would have to hire Dkembe Mutumbo to carry me like a baby...

My husband is British. He is allowed the C-word even though I don't really use it for Clive Owen-esque reasons. I'll be happy to tell him Jezebel considers him an "advanced lover."

A week after my daughter was born, I was suffering from uncontrollable shivering and pain in my abdomen so bad that I couldn't get out of bed. Thankfully, my midwife was doing regular postnatal checks due to mental illness. I told her that the What to Expect book said that discomfort and temp changes due to hormones…

9th grade trip to DC = the one where I discovered that getting laid was not the same as booty dancing with someone...after I told everyone I'd gotten laid with multiple guys. I still have a friend who laughs at me about that.

My parents' cat was dying, and it was SO sad. He could only keep down a bite or two of food each day and was simply wasting away. My dad really refused to have him put down because he hates it (and hates paying the vet $300 to shorten the time spent with his best friends), so my mother did it secretly. She put two…

Can I introduce you to the book you will want to get ALL of your 10-16 year old relatives and friends? (And grown-ups too) Jacqueline Wilson's Opal Plumstead. It is about economic decline, the class system in pre-war England and SUFFRAGETTES! Also, she ends up leaving her education while her dad is in prison to…

I watch on catch-up so it's not an issue for us, but does it make me a prude if I find the transition pretty racy? Don't they usually air some kind of Halloween/Thanksgiving movie or at least a comedy show after kids primetime stuff? The watershed is there for a reason, but no commercials between is like WHOA. This…

Anyone up in here with the "Could've used more vegan options" yet? Pinkham?

And I think you meant "onion-skin". Lambskin pages would be condoms, and I don't think that's sanctioned by any religious publishers as of yet...

Finally, someone who can do all of a single pinterest page!