Were the kids 2 boys and a girl? Because if so, there’s a very real chance that you’re talking about my sister-in-law. 

Oh, I wouldn’t blame her a bit if she did pay Hewitt off. She was looking at either publicly denouncing the father of her children OR defending him and then dealing with a bunch of disingenuous assholes coming at her credibility re: Me Too. She was in a completely crappy position through no fault of her own. 

I think it’s being implied that Reese is the one who paid to make this go away because she didn’t want the complications of testifying at the trial. 

NBC has always been desperate to make him A Thing and I’ve never gotten it. He’s charmless and not that handsome - “little ferret energy” is the perfect description. I remember when he got married; there was this “OMG his bride is the luckiest girl in the world!” bullshit on the show and in all the tabloids and my…

I had the Nine West version and wore them to work almost every day from 2001-2003. When I saw the header pic I had a vivid flashback to selling them at a garage sale in 2008 and regret filled me. Loafers!

Saaame. I spent three days cleaning the cat box, washing the kitchen trash can, shoving lemons down the disposal, and glaring suspiciously at the Craigslist-acquired couch before I found The Potato that Rolled Under the Washing Machine.

I mean, if you don’t ask for something to be done, you get the “Well, I’m not a mind reader!” line. If you DO ask, you’re a nag. There’s no way to win. 

Mmm hmm. My husband works full-time and I work part-time, so it’s reasonable for me to do more. He’s actually pretty good about doing his share, but weirdly blind to all that I actually do. Example: we live in the desert, and a friend was recently complaining about how dusty his house was. My husband said, “That’s…

I like both as well. Once I dumped a cold half-cup of coffee into a cold half-cup of Earl Gray, reheated it, and drank it. It was pretty good. 

They suggested ordering the flat white with gingerbread syrup. My husband attempted to do this and was told, “We don’t have gingerbread syrup but I can make you a gingerbread latte.” Hmm.

I loved the Holiday Spice Flat White (RIP). I recently tweeted about the lack of Holiday Spice this year and Starbucks responded to my tweet even though I didn’t @ or tag them, which is sort of terrifying.

This this this. I’m 44 (so not terribly ancient) and every time I think, “I’ll just get cheap sheets/underwear/kitchen thing” it turns out to be so badly made that it’s not even functional. This was not an issue 20 years ago, when I was buying cheap everything.

I can’t remember how it came up, but a friend of mine once told me that she never bought bras, she just took them from her sisters’ houses when she visited them. She said this in a completely matter-of-fact way and is otherwise a normal person. 

I went to a small college in a very small Midwestern town back in the mid ‘90s. About a month before senior year, my best friend’s (let’s call her Liz) living situation fell through. Because the town was small, she didn’t have a lot of option, particularly so late in the summer, and my place was too small for two. Liz…

My advice is the opposite of most people’s: I think people who are undecided should actually go ahead and have a kid. You’ll definitely have moments when you think “Why the hell did I do this?” but I think the it’s much more likely that you’d truly regret not having done it when you’re older. I know several people in…

I am currently trying to shift from drinking beer and margaritas to drinking a small shot of booze with La Croix or Spindrift. So far the only combo that really hits the spot is tequila with pamplemousse/grapefruit (a splash of any citrus juice you have lying around makes it even better). Gin with cucumber Spindrift…

I found a 70s era bright yellow crocheted bikini in a thrift store once. It had a . . . nipple-ish pattern on the bra cups and a . . . pubes-ish pattern on the bottom front and it remains the most hilarious item of clothing I’ve ever owned. I brought it all the way to Greece once but never actually worked up the…

I also love it - cottage cheese with fruit preserves (apricot, raspberry, and strawberry are all good) is an easy and reasonably healthy breakfast. I was also born in the 70s - I feel like cottage cheese got stuck with a “sad diet food” rep in the 80s/90s, and it’s the kids of that era who are the real haters as a…

Any type of sleep aid, even OTC stuff like Tylenol PM and cold medicine, makes me feel groggy the next day, so I also do something similar to this. I usually imagine that I’m telling someone about some fairly mundane thing - how I met a friend, who lived in my college dorm - and this seems to keep the anxious thoughts…

My grandfather and aunt both had polio in the 1950s - my mother’s first memory was visiting them when they were in iron lungs, which was terrifying for her. They both survived polio, but my grandfather was confined to a wheelchair and my aunt’s health was generally poor, and she was not able to have children. The both…