Mr.R had been previously married but I had not. And our relationship progressed really slowly. He was kind of my “comic relief” in between my other relationships (and yes, and a booty call) but at some point we realized that we were well, an “us”. The transition to cohabitation went pretty slowly as well. After a…

She’s not a con artist and I’m not a skin-suit operated by sentient bees.

I technically did the asking, I’m not sure if this counts though.

Talking about the decision to have kids with my queer friends: “I don’t know, I know it seems like a lot of time and effort and money but the truth is we’ve just reached that point in our life where we want to start a family and grow our love, you know?”

So in other words, you worked out AND did a marathon....

It’s not enough to have:
The Howard degree in Africana Studies...
Her copies of Essence Magazine...
Her FB updates about “12 Years A Slave”...
No. It’s, “Not only do I know your hair texture scales, I’m the kinkiest.”

SHE SAID HER HAIR WAS A 4?

I find it hard to be terribly sad about Sir Lee. He was an awesome person and gave me personally phenomenal amounts of entertainment.

He will be missed but I would choose to celebrate an amazing life over being sad.

The other day my friend was like, “Man, whatever happened to Regretsy?” and I was like, “It still exists, it’s called Etsy.”

When I decided to run away from home when I was 7 I tried to make one of these to hold my belongings. It fit precisely one Ziploc bag of cherry tomatoes (for sustenance on the road), my teddy bear (obv) and nothing else. Entirely impractical.

1. those handles are not bamboo

Choosing to believe that Sam Waterston’s new look is for a Law & Order reunion movie, where Jack McCoy, having lost reelection as D.A., is living in an isolated cabin upstate. Mike Logan comes to visit and beg him to go back to work — an old case of his and Lennie’s is being reopened, and their names are being dragged…

When I was in high school, my best friend’s sister got married (for ~ 2 months). It is relevant to mention that they were an interracial couple (white lady, black dude).

When my son was 6 he was just getting into jokes and riddles so we had a joke-themed birthday for him. Lots of fun and highjinks. I had told him that for a joke we’d have re-lighting candles on his cake, but that he should keep it secret. He did and you could see him delightedly anticipating his friend’s reactions.…

My pops is black and my mom is white, and when they got married in the early 80s in buttfuck Colorado this was quite the anomaly/scandal. They couldn't find a black groom cake topper so they just sharpied in a white dude. Nothing says “special day” like blackface on your wedding cake

Less cake-related but rather young-family-member-meltdown-related ... My littlest cousin lives overseas and we’ve only met a couple of times - but we wanted to include him in our wedding ceremony when he was about 6 so we made him a ring bearer. By all accounts he was super excited until he got to the rehearsal and rea…

I hate this sentiment. I’ve gotten it before (not blind versus cancer), but it smacks of one-upmanship and trivializes a person’s very real pain. I mean, you can’t win at that game: Going blind? At least it’s not cancer! Got cancer? At least it’s not flesh-eating bacteria! Got flesh-eating bacteria? At least you…

Yes, this! I get that there are people with dozens of girlfriends and too many bridesmaids, but as a 26 year old woman, in a new city, no less, it has been way easier for me to date than to find girlfriends. I have one best girlfriend from college, but after college, when you don’t have shared experiences like classes…

SNACKTIME, y’all!

HAHAHA I JUST SAW THE SLIDER. IM THE DUMB DUMB HAHAHA.