That’s wonderful! My friend had the same experience when she used a DNA test. She did love her adoptive parents, but there was always sort of a ‘remove’ from them. Finding her birth mother -and planning a visiting to her birth father- has been an amazingly cathartic choice to make.

I’m just going to keep throwing this out here-knowing that I’ll probably be trolled- My son is in the Army. He and a number of his friends are appalled by Trump. Yes, that’s just one person—but have you ever actually talked the the “most of the younger people” that you speak of?

My son is one of the lower ranks in the Army, and I can tell you that he has nothing but contempt for Trump.

Oh my lord—I was so completely sympathizing with you about wrangling your kids that I forgot that you mentioned at the beginning you were pregnant. I wish you all the pie and none of the stress this Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I was a special breed of fan as only a ten year old can be.

Dear lord. What city is that? Is it on an individual basis or illegal to set up an organized effort?

We also have a lovable six month old puppy who took us to hell and back with her constant gnawing and lack of interest in night time sleep. For a brief and awful time I was convinced that raising my kids had been easier.

Jellicle cats meet once a year—at the Jellicle Ball, where they all rejoice.

How do you think this would turn out with pureed pumpkin? 

Every food bank is different. We welcome fresh anything, but try to move it out the door as quickly as possible since we only have one refrigerator that also houses after-school snack fruit and cheesesticks etc for homework club. Other banks might have more ways to store fresh produce. It never hurts to ask and be…

Really? I’ve only seen her on youtube of different slime tutorials but, wow, this is some of the best casting! This is getting me extremely happy.

Do you mean Beanie Feldstein? She is amazing.....

Follow what Mimicry has listed and you can’t go wrong. The only thing I would put in is that, if you plan on making a special shopping trip for items, ask the bank/volunteers: A) Is there a special need for anything in particular (ie do you need more fruits as opposed to grains this week etc) B) Ask if the food is…

Something like that. It’s in Virginia.

I’m so sorry. At the risk of sounding like a weird stranger post—and the fear that my blathering will start making it all about me—I just wanted to let you know that some (hopefully most) of the people who work at food banks are aware of the struggles that parents have to go through when confronted with the ‘gift’ of…

This was the one I saw when it first ran—I wasn’t supposed to be watching it, but I seem to remember a not-great babysitter approving my choice: One of them (I think it was Jacklyn Smith) got hypnotized and remembered a mean lady who took care of her when she was small. It was such a bad memory that she eventually…

Or Jennifer Weiner herself when she was denied the Oprah list: https://jezebel.com/jennifer-weiner-is-wigging-out-over-oprahs-newest-book-1786529574

My parents used to play ‘spot the escorts’  when they’d visit DC for work. They always came back with the best stories.

I spent a terrifying ten minutes in Holiday City, located in Toms River,while visiting my godmother for Thanksgiving (!) when I was little. I was too young to know about the concept of ‘retirement villages’ or ‘complete absence of outdoor life’ or the houses that ‘looked just the same’ or ‘post apocalyptic…

I’m so sorry to hear about your dad. If video chat doesn’t work right now, a private video channel could be set up for his grandchildren to make ‘content’ (yes, I know how weird that sounds) for whenever they want to share something. We did something similar last year—mostly with sports, lego stuff, experiments etc.—bu…