The fact that I have very little contact with my mother has nothing to do with punishing her for the shitty things she did in the past and everything to do with protecting myself from the shitty things she might do in the future

Cannot give enough stars. The worst thing about child abusers isn't the abuse, horrific and damaging though it is. It's the fact that absolutely no truth can get through their ego, particularly the part about what great parents they were.

Their children's success is always because of them...never in spite of them.

PREACH!

Your mother sounds like my mother; I cut her out of my life when I was 16 (I lived with my father) and asked her for an apology for the beatings and neglect that she inflicted upon me. Her response was basically a shrug that I could visualize over the phone. I just had to get on with life knowing that there would be…

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

At this point my dick is fully retreated into my stomach and my nuts were following close behind.

Don't worry, it's not that great. Tastes very good and it's an entertaining task to fight your way into a whole one, but in general I prefer not to have to battle my way into my food.

FREEZE PEACH! Yeah that's totally what that means.

I'm surprised at the negative comments about this photo! It's tempura and possibly the best way to eat veggies!!

My reaction to all of these

You just need to start with a scoop of hot ice instead of regular ice.

Jen still hates me for that.

Never quite landed with readers the way it did with me. I think "Ma'am...it doesn't have legs. Or a body. It's parsley" is way funnier to me than it would be to most people.

I wish there were more people in the world like this grandfather. If there were, we wouldn't get so many people out there unable to process simple facts like "I'm sorry, your password can be reset, but it's going to take a few minutes." "Well, that is UNACCEPTABLE." Really? I think you'll find if you really sit…

I was serving a grandfather and his teenage grandson. The kid asked for a bowl of chili, at which point I explained that we were out of chili, apologized (why we as servers have to do this, I don't know, but we do) and told him the other soups we had available. The kid said, "But I wanted the chili." Ok, well,…

"Now, that first story might not seem to be some huge righteous vengeance,..."