“...there was a short, precious moment when you had seen his lips move but had not heard the fateful words. All the hopes of humanity could have fit inside that moment.”

This is great. Probably not a good time to bring it up, but reminds me of Faulkner’s famous Pickett’s Charge passage.

I got it. Been to Palatine, seen the place

OMG can you see Dorito going on a Hugy Schwyzer-style Twitter meltdown? Confessing all?

Sitting here holed up in my house waiting for an ice storm right now.

HaHa when I try to google Tang shirts to shop for more, all I get is Wu-Tang Clan T-shirts

Uh-Oh...what is wrong with “transgendered?” Dare I ask?

Happens to me sometimes; I get called out; I make a special effort not to get defensive and let it go. Sometimes I decide to follow the direction of the caller-outer, such as saying “undocumented” rather than “illegal” (which I got called out for a couple of years ago and changed the term I use) (I just hadn’t thought…

But the only adamant, pissed-off, Reddit-chugging Trump voter I know is gay.

Someone tweeted the KC Police “I’d like to report a robbery. He took off on foot.”

I turn 60 tomorrow. Know what I regret? Spending time trying to read ALL the comments on certain articles. I had last week off and spent almost one whole day trying to read all the comments on one Jezebel article. Finally I realized how much time had gone by and said “Uncle.” I’m sad if I missed any really insightful…

There’s a two-part Sword and Scale podcast about that, featuring the police interrogation of the fiancee

Ugh. I turn 60 in a week and I’m nearly 200 pounds. And last night on the bus a guy was harassing me so badly, despite the driver telling him twice to leave me alone, that I got off, forfeiting my transfer, and went back to where my husband was in order to take a later bus with him.

When I used that line on my sister, my opinion was “No one has to know” (that I’m not really getting three dates a week)

For a lot of people, it’s try, and lie that you weren’t trying.

Here’s another good line (I think): “Why make one guy miserable when I can make a lot of ‘em happy?”

Not even anyone in my FAMILY acknowledged my 40th birthday. I wasn’t dating anyone and was almost completely alone, except my friend and I and her mother went antiquing. I’ll never forget that day when at least I had that companionship. Nineteen years later I can’t get a minute to myself. Life can turn around in…

Bit of unsolicited advice...you definitely need to do more than “hey.” Women do not like “hey.” Craft a response that shows you read her profile and something in it jumped out at you...something you have in common; something that made you laugh; something that intrigues you. Go out on more of a limb than “hey.”

Have the gluten-free people piled on yet? I have eczema and oh, the gluten-free people! My mother and sister believe if you stub your toe it’s because gluten.

Ugh I used to get the “look for an older widower” speech. Because my mother thought that a guy past 25 who had never been married had something wrong with him. All these years later, now that she knows I married my best friend, for companionship, she finally said that was the right way to go about things (she was…

I WAS the wacky aunt and got religiously shunned by my nieces because I 1) had liquor in my house, hidden, but they found it 2) made up some funny lyrics to a few hymns in church (I later apologized when I found out just how seriously they took that) 3) made their doll family go “Kill Kill” Some people just don’t…