I once went to the ER at Lutheran in Brooklyn, NY, suffering from unexplained dizziness. The intake nurse yelled at me for taking up their time with a non-emergency, then I sat in the waiting room for a few hours. I finally just left, having decided that if I was going to die from lack of treatment for a stroke, I…

I remember the time I needed black pants for a new job. I went to Lane Bryant and capris were big that year and THERE NO FUCKING PROPER TROUSERS IN THE WHOLE GODDAMNED STORE. Not one single pair. The only good news was I'm short so the capris just looked like poorly fitting trousers on me.

I bought one just because seltzer is hard to find in the region I just moved to. I didn't even realize how much I loved seltzer.

I live in a little bubble I've constructed where I manage to mostly avoid top 40 pop until I seek it out. To this day I've never heard Blurred Lines. However, sometimes stuff leaks in and this morning is was a Lana Del Rey song. I didn't know it was a Lana Del Rey song until after the fact.

I know very little about modern Japanese society, but 32 as the average age for a first child is pretty remarkable.

This is pretty dated, but I was saying yesterday that the Jan Brewer sticking her finger in Obama's face thing is why I could never get into politics. He practiced amazing restraint in not telling her "get your bony finger out of my face, you fucking bitch." From what I could tell, he didn't even flinch. I am…

"Liberal is synonymous with progressive ... ."

"The average age of women who are delivering their first child is nearly 32 in Tokyo, way too high... ."

I wouldn't go as far as "selfish and wasteful" but we do need to starting questioning the assumption that this is what is normal. Globally and historically speaking, it's really not and there's no shame in multi-generational households.

I'd have died on the streets years ago if not for my family. I posted my own comment about how my mom and I are going to live together when she chooses it and this is good for a number of reasons. What I didn't mention is that I will care for her as much and for as long as I can because she deserves it.

I once considered transitioning from academia to private sector. I found the private sector employers in my field to be very suspicious of people willing to move for a good job. I actually had one tell me "Palo Alto is in California, you know." (Which actually really insulted me - it felt like "Didn't you check a map…

Living solo rather than in multi-generational family households is probably the blip. Let's face it, sharing space and expenses makes more sense, financially and emotionally, and it's only the past few generations that have lived differently. I'm single, childless and as I'm pushing 40 I'm figuring it's gonna stay…

I went to dinner with a guy who left me alone at the table five times while he went to smoke. (If you can't eat dinner without 5 cigarette breaks, it's time for a patch.) The 5th time he came back he found me texting and said I was being rude.

You're in the cube next to me, aren't you?

That was what I was expecting when I read "rainbow cake comment apocalypse." This was so much better.

Yeah, I started at 10 and it was mortifying.

Getting a driver's license was the only of the so-called milestones of youth that actually was a big deal to me.

Try that shit with David Bowie.

Scoffing was my gut reaction to this post because the praise Dove garnered for their ad campaigns nauseated me. As far as I was concerned, they had just found an even more insidious way to part people from their money. But I've read some of the pro comments here and my stance is softening.

I know the basic subject matter of the book and movie but I never saw/read either. I gleaned from context that the meme had a very unsavory connotation.