So... I’m from Houston, and this is all just bizarre. Against all odds, my husband and I, all our family (who live all over Houston) and all our close friends came through with essentially no damage. That said, I can’t begin to explain how weird it is to see the freeway exit to your neighborhood on TV... completely…

Who here has a rescue cat or dog?

The fact that we live in a country where you can be made homeless over CANCER TREATMENTS disgusts me to no end

something about the guy just rubs me the wrong way - he’s just got a certain smugness about him, the same thing that just radiates from local television personalities.

I never cared for him, but I crossed over to actively disliking him after his gross interview with Anne Hathaway where he was condescending towards her after nasty paparazzi pics were published of her getting out of a car. He acted like it was her fault and he wanted to know what lesson she learned from it.

The hand-holding in the top pic is so strange. Looks like Melania is trying to hold her bag with both hands as a ploy to avoid holding his, but 45 is trying to somehow loop his hand into her clasped ones.

Does Barron’s t-shirt indicate he has been offered a position as advisor?

The more I hear about James Comey, the more I think the man loves him some drama.

There was literally a moment when he was walking in the room that I thought, “Wait, is Comey kind of hot?” I think it was the height thing. But then he said his age and I was like, “Aghh, he’s almost as old as my parents, no, no, no.”

and as soon as I asked him to remind me of it he got this crazy eyes look on his face and his smile froze and he said, “really? This whole time I thought you were dead. So, yeah.”

He’s not disgusting, he’s scary. He has a weird, tense, keyed up energy that doesn’t match his words and his face has a weird strain to it when he makes ostensibly friendly facial expressions when he speaks to me. That’s kind of the whole problem; I don’t have any problem telling people I’m not interested if I’m…

“This whole time I thought you were dead.”

Trust your gut. That niggling little voice is your subconscious processing the information and warning you. You don’t have to understand why and you are NOT crazy.

Creepy people at the gym are awful and I’m very sorry you are dealing with this. I consider my gym to be my happy place, so it’s pretty bad when someone makes your gym time stressful.

So, I have to go into the other room in a moment, so I am going to make this brief:

That’s unfortunate. I have friends who avoid the gym for this very reason — and it seems like the ubiquitous advice for single people to join a gym and chat up people with similar interests(!) really exacerbates things.

Amen. As a non-uterus haver, I’ve been pro-choice, but watching my wife go through pregnancy with twins and then with another, there is no way to justify forcing someone to go through that process against their will.

So much this. I was always pro-choice, but I can distinctly remember two instances in my pregnancy - one as I was throwing up everything I’d eaten all day after having to bolt from the dinner table, and the other as I was on doctor’s appointment number four for the week (while starving, because thanks gestational…

I loved that fertility narrative breakdown too. It resonated with me so much. I was sexually active for 14 years before trying for a baby, and I was hyperresponsible and hypervigilant and borderline neurotic for all of it, convinced all it would take was a single instance of unprotected sex for me to get pregnant.…

So you’re saying you made a well thought out, reasonable decision about your health and your body; the people responsible for it did not judge or subject you to their personal bias; and your supportive partner was there for you and cared for you before, during and after.