For fun, I watched Fifty Shades with my boyfriend and we mocked it the whole time because it’s infinitely mockable...and actually mostly it was boring so we were mostly just reading crap on our phones while it played out in the background. Anyway, I posted on Facebook my review of it being tedious and the characters…

My husband made kickass meatloaf on Thursday and it’s the best comfort food out there.

Ugh, the Curse of the Elusive Cervix. Sounds like it should be a Nancy Drew novel.

I’d love it if you could come, odd jewelry and all!

If I had a dollar for every spiritual new agey person that I have wanted to punch in the face for blaming me for causing my own illnesses, I could go on a little shopping spree right now! Or you know, buy some of the drugs i require to stay alive...

I genuinely think Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything is a cookbook every person should own. But it’s kinda pricey and it has a website!

You need to focus on yourself and make yourself happy. You are not obligated to endure her abuse because you feel guilty that she might hurt herself. She needs psychiatric help, and unless you’re in that field, I don’t see what you can do to make her better. Stay strong. I’m sending hugs.

That must be very disturbing. As a happy Bostonian myself (come back, we miss you!) I feel simultaneously proud and relaxed to be living in a state with such aggressive gun control laws. I mean, people do get shot, but not usually by accident, or because some douchcanoe is open-carrying. I remember once, a number of…

—For example, in 2007 Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and social critic, ridiculed the book’s weight control advice to “not observe” overweight people.—

Georgia’s just as bad as Texas. I did complain but I doubt that anything will come of it. It’s so hard to live in the red south as a (very) blue Bostonian during a ridiculously circus-like election year. So much DERP in public.

Just came back from the GROCERY STORE.

My quick cheatsheet:

Ina Garten’s cookbooks are super-useful in this regard; she does great stuff that is simple and effective. As for a sauce, here’s what I do: add equal parts butter and flour to a pan; heat it to medium, let the butter melt, and cook it for a minute or two. Add hot liquid of your flavor choice (chicken stock, milk,…

I’m sorry you’re going through this. I don’t know exactly what you’re going through but I broke off a long friendship with someone I met when I was young (we were 16) about a year ago due to her emotionally abusive and unstable behaviour. She also had to get the last word in and sent me a spiteful email after I…

If you haven’t seen the doc Pink Ribbons Inc, I highly recommend it. I really appreciated that they emphasized how destructive forced positive thinking can be when someone is terminally ill. How dare anyone tell someone who is fighting for their life to be more positive and gracious. Like you said, there’s nothing…

Dear gods, is this perfect timing. This past summer, my best friend suddenly became hostile and unfriendly; no warning, no explanation, no anything. Then I found out that she had been excluding me from activities we used to do with two other gfs, and then posting their fun on Facebook for me to see. This put the other…

I don’t care if someone believes that “Horton hears a Who” is fact based, as long as they don’t legislate that I have to believe it or make laws that pertain to others based on the book.

I disagree. Sometimes, you don’t realize how toxic a person was for you until you get some time and distance. 25 years ago, one of my best friends and I had a massive falling out. She cut contact with me - because SHE had done something awful and then she got upset that I dared to be angry about the thing she did.

Seriously, it’s such BS. I’m all for positive thinking and visualizing good things in your life, but they lost me when they said that the people who were killed during the Holocaust didn’t REALLY in their heart of hearts want to survive. Victim blaming much?

My ‘spiritual’ friend dumped me when I got chronically ill. Because it says so in The Secret, you shouldn’t consort with sick people because it will attract more sickness. Some spiritual people are sick in the head. Namaste cuntface!