I’m totally dreading Christmas Day. I am definitely far luckier than most because I don’t have to visit with any family or team anywhere, so it is basically like any other day at my house. However, I have to call all my family members and it makes me sick with stress every time.

Freshly showered parrot in a Santa outfit, just because.

If you don’t want anything to do with her, you have to honor that. Borderline folks will do everything possible to make spending time with them miserable, but then they will guilt you for not wanting to spend time with them. If you truly don’t want to see her, and you relent because you feel sorry for her, before you…

I’m so glad that you had the strength and the presence of mind to get away when you did. It’s very difficult when you get into those sort of relationships young because you generally don’t even have clear boundaries established for yourself yet.

I am so sorry. I hope your husband’s passing is as peaceful as possible. I truly wish I had something to say that would be helpful. All I can say is that your pain has been heard and I hope that helps in some small way.

What awesome storytelling! I don’t think anyone can beat this!

Is he seriously gloating already?!

My mother’s side of the family is usually where I would spend Christmas. When I was a kid, my Nana and Gramps made every Christmas so magical for us. It also happened to be a magical time for that part of the family in general because nobody had gotten divorced yet and the whole family would get together at once.

“It’s like the wheel, there is nothing better. I know tech better than anyone...”

When I was a little kid, my parents both got those slippers and bought me a pair.  I don't know what the appeal was.

I hope that this poor girl gets the professional and personal support necessary so that she does not drown in guilt. Because, of course, it is always women’s job to rescue these poor lonely men before they turn bad. You see, they all start out as great guys, but the cold heartless bitches of the world—the ones who…

It isn’t fair to ask where his parents were because high school sports can involve tremendous time commitments that working parents cannot always fulfill.  Many games and meets are even held right after school. The parents who have the luxury of being there all the time for sporting events often don’t have full-time…

For some reason, Americans are very anti-foreign language, even though the norm in the majority of the world is to know two or more. When I taught a summer program for adults learning English, every student, regardless of country of origin, knew at least three languages. It has always been seen as one of the hallmarks…

Everyone I’ve ever known who knows cursive quickly ditched it once it was no longer required, just like everyone switched from pencil to pen as soon as possible. The only time I see cursive in use is in people’s signatures, but I’m not sure how younger people who never learned cursive typically sign their names. Obviou…

What I am wondering as a thought experiment—completely hypothetically, NOT SAYING THIS WOULD OR SHOULD HAPPEN—is what would happen if the Democrats suddenly said, “Okay, we can see how important the wall is, so we’re going to agree to fund it; what’s more, we will give you $30 billion because that’s what it will…

I hope she ends up pulling through okay, but the fact she has beaten cancer before doesn’t mean anything. My grandfather had multiple bouts of cancer in different locations in his body and he fought through each time. When he got a tumor in his brain, the family was confident that he’d beat it again, but that time it…

It really doesn’t bother me. If people are stupid enough to believe that the government needs their financial “help,” and if the wall is THAT important to these people, let them throw away their money.

The problem is that, as a malignant narcissist, he DOES need attention to survive. Thus, if people stopped paying attention to him, it would be perceived as an actual threat to his existence. Narcissists in that situation become desperate to reestablish their narcissistic supply, so they simply ramp up their grandiose…

Sorry to hear about your paycheck. It’s so abhorrent that our elected officials can essentially play a game of “chicken” with repercussions that fall onto ordinary citizens.

I certainly didn’t think that lethality was something our military didn’t know how to do well enough.