Are you crazy? That would just make it so strong it would have killed them!

This is about my twin sister. First day of school, she was in second grade. A boy named Ricky started picking on her. Pulling at her hair, slapping, kicking and terrorizing her. She was scared but nobody did anything. The teacher just told Ricky to stop it but he continued. He was big and an asshole. He grabbed her…

So, when I was in kindergarten, I wasn’t allowed to carry an umbrella on the bus.

No. This is not the face of a man who reciprocates.

The three-dimensional jewelry pieces would drive me insane, but those tortoise shell nails are glorious.

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

I am going to keep this one short and sweet.

As much as I can’t stand this guy, he doesn’t need “treatment”. This is what happens sometimes when your family expects you to fulfill a role that is perhaps not what you want for your life. This guy ISN’T about family values, being married etc. And that’s fine. But the pressure of his family and church’s expectations…

Hearing about the way her parents raised their children makes me very sad.

I’ll wear black if I’m doing a more intense eye for a night out but otherwise it’s MAC Teddy eyeliner (brown) for everything else.

Yeah that sentence right there is the sign that Judy is maybe not the best makeup artist. Brown is actually way more flattering than black sometimes.

And some people are too light or have hair too light for black to look anything other than harsh or overdone for day. There are other colors out there for a reason, whether that makeup artist likes using them or not. When you're working on someone else is really not a good time to let your biases about makeup out, you…

100% in disagreeance with the black eyeliner over brown. Teenaged me slathered that black eyeliner all up in dat waterline, adult me is a little more subduded and does a touch of brown on the outer corners. The only exception is liquid eyeliner (don’t try to sell me on colored cat eyes).

Spelling and grammatical issues aside, #TeamAnnaDuggarsBrother

The summer after high school graduation and my boyfriend was staying the night from out of town. He slept in the guest room and, in the morning, I went in and laid on top of the covers next to him (with the door left open, of course, because rules). Soon after, two or three of our cats also jumped on the bed.

Once, my mom and dad told us they were giving us the house for the weekend while they were taking a cruise. I was 18 and I was going to have friends over. It was going to be a fantastic weekend!

My dad was a pretty serious LOTR nerd before it was cool, i.e. before the movies came out. He read all the appendices and books by Tolkien’s son annotating his father’s notes and books about the linguistics and collections of artwork about Middle Earth. Two of these artists were particularly considered to be experts,…

I heartily endorse big-hipped women wearing bodycon dresses, in that the last time I wore a bodycon dress, literally every comment from my friends was ‘OMG YOUR CURVES’. Aw yeah. Also, I heartily endorse everyone wearing whatever the fuck they want at all times (unless you are wearing a pelt made from the skins of…

Honest to gosh, cross my heart this is true.

I spent three of the best summers of my life working at a little scout camp in Eastern Ontario, just outside of Perth. I have literally dozens of stories from it (I’ve already told two here) but this is my favourite:

We had a HUGE raccoon population around the camp. Big families that would get into gang fights at…