Almost 10 years ago I left a job that paid me well to do work I liked because I HATED the office bullshit and pressure to work 10-12 hour days. Now I have a job that is kind of boring but it pays the bills and the workload is manageable enough that I have time and energy for a boyfriend, exercise and a ton of…

I enjoyed your thesis so much! Jackson fascinates me and this was great new material for me.

I read it this way, too, and find it timelessly relevant. 

My take on Constance is that codependency was her downfall. She needed to be a caretaker and while her deceased family mistreated her, Merricat is loving and affectionate. I don’t think she felt trapped with a sociopath; she had purpose in caring for her sister.

I forgot Colossal! I can’t call it bad; it is one of my favorite movies and I consider it a metaphor for women’s experiences with men. But it might fit your criteria.

I did really like it, especially for those plot twists! 

I’d love to get your recommendations! The only other funny/action one I can think of is Red with Bruce Willis.

A Simple Favor is great for this. It was like a weird suspense/comedy hybrid that has some plausible and heartfelt scenes and some totally off the wall. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Please find Karen and report back! 

My partner and I tried using folded bandannas but it was too hard to breathe, and cut-up t-shirts were too thin and loose. I can’t sew and have no fabric or elastic anyway, so I was grateful to find someone locally selling them for pick up on their porch. The fabric choices were floral or a sports team, so we each got…

I suggest joining your local “Nextdoor” group online or look for a local “Be Neighborly” group on Facebook. Lots of people sewing masks from home are offering them in those groups. If you asked “where can I find hand sanitizer” I’m sure people would reply. In our area, a local distillery is selling it and I never…

This is the most sickening part for me: leaders could save lives by wearing masks because others will follow their example. 

I’m sad for these kids. The teen years go by so fast and there are no do-overs.

Adorable! Yesterday I was out for a walk in a different neighborhood and stopped to have a long conversation with a pair of chickens in someone’s front yard. That’s when I realized how desperate I’ve been for social interaction, ha!

The Gavin Rossdale/Gwen Stefani co-parenting in pandemic...this stuff is hard. My partner and I go nowhere except masked and gloved grocery trips and walks outside. But our chain of contact from custody exchanges goes from us to his two kids to their mom to her boyfriend to her boyfriend’s two kids to his kid’s mom to…

I don’t have firsthand experience with this but had a coworker whose daughter was traumatized if she (the mom) didn’t get in bed with the daughter until she fell asleep. Trying to “fix” it made the daughter extremely anxious so the mom decided for her kid’s mental and emotional health to just get in bed with her every…

I’m very sorry. In case it is any help to you, I found a lot of comfort at https://www.petloss.com/. It has resources plus a virtual candle ceremony every Monday.

Same. I’d been comforting myself by thinking the stay-at-home order will be lifted by end of May. That might not happen so I’m better off just remembering that it will happen eventually.

I tried to make this yesterday but didn’t have instant coffee. I opened up a Kuerig pod and tried to pulverize the coffee into a powder by putting it between 2 sheets of waxed paper and grinding it with a glass. Wouldn’t fluff up. I added some powdered coffee creamer and it at least made a thicker goo that tasted…

Heard of Best Friends Animal Society? It does an incredible job of caring for animals and leading outreach but it has a very bizarre, cult-origin. https://www.opposingviews.com/category/best-friends-of-utah-the-process-church-of-the-final-judgment-to-animal-society