To be fair, historically gods have been really, really bad at controlling themselves around human women.

You’re the Rhoda!

My high school experience was pretty benign - had my clique, had a best friend within it, that was enough. The popular kids in my high school were the top athletes AND the top students, as well as uniformly nice, which runs counter to every h.s. stereotype, but was true.

She never really “went out” much, though. Yes, the obviously orchestrated photo ops, most of which were walking down the street arm in arm or sitting on some rocks with the guy in question... but she was never one of those celebs on a constant party/club/opening circuit. I thought she was pretty masterful at using…

I believe the allegation has been made that the local LAPD precinct is very $cientology friendly, and that the LT who refused to respond to questions whether Shelley was interviewed in the presence of others (or seen/interviewed at all — I believe the word the report used was that they “made contact”) has appeared in…

I only knew one family with the tree/color wheel. It was the mid-70s, and I remember it was a totally new concept to me, so obviously they never caught on in my suburban Boston circles. (It was much more lush and impressive than Mitzi Gaynor’s sad tree, though!) And the Carpenters Christmas album was always playing at…

Chessy Prout’s book was very good — she doesn’t mask the hurt and suffering caused by her treatment in the aftermath of the assault by the administration, friends, even family members. It’s eye opening and brutally honest, in a way she could have avoided if she focused only on the rape/rapist.  A strong woman.

Who was the celebrity who nonchalantly discussed the gang rape of a girl when he was in high school (casting it as getting lucky, if I recall correctly)? It was discussed here at Jezebel one of the last 4000 horrible opportunities of the last couple of years. Want to share actual interview quotations from this person…

In the meantime he’ll be sleeping on a metal cot, using a toilet a couple of feet away and doing Fat Albert impressions for the amusement of whoever demands them. No doubt he’ll be segregated to a medical/elderly ward, but that doesn’t change being accountable 24/7 to the whims of security guards (and prison food).

When the English royal family looks warm and supportive compared to your family of origin... something’s really wrong with your family of origin.

Hudson’s where all the Law and Order college students get murdered, isn’t it?

Kind of like when Billy Joel wrote “I love you just the way you are” then left his wife for Christie Brinkley?

I was thinking more about the car accident with the factory owning lady. 

People under 20 aren’t racing to buy music made by people over 50? Scandalous!

And she had a bad back.

My father was in construction management. He’d bring home blueprints, and I must have asked him once what he was doing and he told me “counting windows” because it was his job to make sure the right number of windows were put in.

I once complimented my mother on the most gorgeous picture I’d ever seen of her - super slim, very Jackie Kennedy-esque. She made a face and said “I was five months pregnant and hadn’t kept anything down for 3 months.”

It may well be partly depression, and I don’t want to in any way minimize what you’re feeling over this. But if it’s any help at all, I would say the absolute BEST part of your 40s is that you let all of that go. Or at least most of it. Maybe not every single person, and maybe not on the day you turn 40, but pretty…

Wouldn’t apply to a memory care situation, but I have a weird vision of living in a Golden Girls kind of set up. Not like there won’t be a lot of us in that situation, and if the house is big enough that we eachhave a bedroom and sitting room and never have to really interact unless we want to, that would work...

Outside of slumber parties and period week, I don’t think I ever slept in underwear. I don’t think any kid I ever babysat for ever wore underwear under their pajamas.  They came off with the day clothes.