I was told an abortion could rip a hole in my cervix, causing my intestines to be pulled through it.

+1,000,000 points. Best creche ever.

It's almost as if anti-abortion sentiment were somehow related to men's fear of being vulnerable to the reproductive capacity of women...

I only wish I could have the sense of innocence and wonder displayed by this man and his lack of beach knowledge.

When I was in college, I lived in my boyfriend’s apartment for a summer before we moved into my first actual apartment, along with our roommate. I was talking to my grandmother about our moving plans when she asked what I had to sleep on. I said, “we have a futon mattress that we put on the floor.” She was appalled…

Your story brought tears to my eyes, because my grandmother did the same for me when I had an insufferable teacher in 5th grade. Grandma was an elementary school teacher herself. When my teacher started assigning so much busywork that I could barely get through it, and would end up crying because I couldn’t stand the…

Earlier this year we lost my grandmother, who was, for all intents and purposes, my mother’s co-parent. We lived with my grandparents until my mother married my stepfather, and then I stayed with grandma and grandpa while mom and stepdad moved in together. She raised me as much as or more than my mom did, and was the…

The possibility that the fight might turn into kissing is a big draw for me. Either way, would pay to see it.

There is a scary discount deli in Albany, NY called The Deli Warehouse. Ever the provocateur, my ex’s mother insisted on calling it the deli whorehouse. To which I could only ask, “do they beat the meat?” I can’t tell you how satisfying it was to see this woman act shocked while everyone laughed, after years of…

If you don’t know how to pronounce it, just go with the flow and say “rooster sauce,” like my mother. Rather than mangle a word she doesn’t know or try to remember a name, she just goes with the descriptive name instead. Like, she just calls Pharrell “Arby’s Hat Guy.” Makes life easy.

I gave my friend a big collage frame full of photos of us together, from age 6 to the time of her wedding. She said it was her favorite gift, followed closely by the decorative silver plate bowls her aunt gave her, which were not on her registry.

I guess the kids don’t do that anymore? Like, they’re not radical like we were. No neon-pink elbow pads, no hypercolor shirts, no gnarly tricks. Just tattoos, babies and ill-fitting bathing suits, apparently. Everyone always says the kids should get off their Nintendos and go outside, but they try to go to the beach…

As a girl who grew up without my father, just let her know that she can come to you with any and everything, and that you will not blow up or shame her, especially for things that have happened TO her. I missed having that comforting, protective male attention in my life. Also, give her every opportunity to let her…

I was about 13 and on vacation with my grandparents. I was wearing this high-cut culotte romper over my bathing suit near the beach, and some teenaged boys looked at me funny. My grandmother commented, “Looks like young men are noticing you.” I was SO embarrassed. I’m not used to getting a lot of that kind of…

“Naked and Afraid” is what I call my bedroom.

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It seems entirely apropos in this instance.

They gave it to me one time, when I presented with a fever, vomiting, and severe headache. Later they gave me phenol-barbitol, gel lidocaine and maalox. I think their approach was to make me calm and then make me not want to stay in the hospital.

The kindly, courteous library of old is no more. They have computers now, you know. And people have a first amendment right to look at whatever they like. Once they start spankin the naked mole rat, that's where their rights end and the security staff come in. We're also not going to sponsor your campaign for…

A Thai place in my college neighborhood did this for a friend of mine who went in at least once a week. She had two dishes that she alternated, and they ALWAYS knew which one she would want when she went in. When I was going into my senior year, and she had graduated, we went there together and the owner hugged her…