I worked at a now-defunct department store chain when I was 16. I had a job making sale signs in the backroom. One day I heard voices above me and looked up. The “security” guys had a hole in their office floor and had been watching me - probably looking down my dress. It was 1972 and I don’t think it even occurred to…

Could it be that the medical person was just trying to make sure the hospital pulled your records and got the right person? [trying to find a non-malicious reason, because I’m an old and sometimes the TG stuff confuses me and I say the wrong thing and then I feel terrible.] And you are a hero for going through all…

I was on a flight pre-pandemic where some asshat refused to turn off his electronics for takeoff. He literally snarled at the flight attendant, “I’ll turn mine off when the captain turns his off.” The attendant just calmly said, “So you’re refusing to turn it off?” and he said yes. I think he was met at the gate, or…

I might be the only person in america who asked for a refund on my membership. when my kid was a baby everyone convinced me to ‘join’ to get diapers and stuff in bulk. But I priced them out and they were cheaper at WalMart and kMart. And I need the $40 that week.

John Kenneth Galbraith, the great economist, wrote a whole book about this - “The Affluent Society.” In it, he coined the term “convenient social virtue,” which he used to describe the construct that society had to invent a reason for women to stay home, so they came up with this entire myth of how the housewife was…

Remember the kitchen done in wine labels for the people who were anti-alcohol??

When I was online dating, I usually found the inability to answer a question meant they were not who they said they were. My go-to screening question became a version of “what’s your favorite coffee shop in xxx” or “what’s your favorite place to see live music in [your town]?” Also, for some reason, bots and scammers…

It took me decades to be able to talk about being hit by my father and going to school with a black eye without crying. I understand now that was how he was brought up, but it was no less traumatic. In his later years he mellowed and I know how much he loved me and I forgave him, but that doesn’t mean “I turned out…

You win the internet today.

Fuxk all these motherforkers with a burning fire poker. I wholeheartedly feel you, Emily. In the mid 1980s when he came to ‘popularity’ one of my favorite uncles inexplicably bought into that trash. I had a budding career as a newspaper reporter, so I was “the media” - aka the enemy. My previously kind, loving uncle…

Betsty, same here, but a daughter. She almost didn’t survive her freshman year away in college and I was terrified the entire school year. She’s happier and better adjusted now, but I feel you. There is nothing like that kind of terror.

Remember how she flirted with Justin Trudeau?

Richie Neal has an enormous political machine here in western Mass. My first reaction was, ah, Richie got them moving. I sort of like the guy personally, but he is unaccustomed to any opposition, going back to his city council days. He’s been there a long time and helped a lot of people, but he sat on his hands and…

Oh, the Jessica Jones version of David Tennant is very, very scary. I could not watch it! Don’t do it.

This inspired me to make a slightly different recipe, lemonade jello shots that you pour into a hollowed out lemon or orange rind. They were adorable AND delicious. I used oranges because lemons have become super expensive lately, like $1 apiece. I used 1 cup of Newman’s Own lemonade and juice of a lemon because I…

I could never understand why those mothers subjected their children to her abuse. I couldn’t watch more than a minute or two of that show. Horrifying. I don’t know anything about dance, but nobody is THAT good. 

I bought one of their promo packages recently. One of the vibrators would NOT shut off, ended up taking out the batteries and dropping it on the floor! they have not responded to my email suggesting it is probably defective except to say ‘we received your message.’

I bought one of their promo packages recently. One of the vibrators would NOT shut off, ended up taking out the…

Except, remember that time Samantha dumped Smith for Richard and he sat on the floor all night by the elevator waiting for her to make sure she was okay? I thought that made him even hotter. So he was hot AND nice.

I am a relentless bag lady. It took me till my 50s to have enough disposable income, and dammit, the good bag companies are getting it. I just got this gorgeous yellow D&B ‘zip-zip’ at Marshall’s of all places for $99. No fewer than SIX other women said variations on “OMG YOU HAVE TO GET THAT BAG” when I was looking…

I was on a jury in a murder trial last year. The judge’s instructions to us were lengthy and detailed [30+ plus] and very specific about the fact that circumstantial evidence is legitimate and we could take that into account. It swayed many of us because there were several witnesses who were just too frightened to say…