Thanks so much! At first I thought it was a weird request and kind of awkward, but then he gave me the explanation and I remember him and my mom listening to the song/album quite a bit while I was growing up. He also said he thinks the world could just use a little reminder right now and a wedding is so full of love…

This is such great news. I get married in a week and I asked my dad to pick our father/daughter dance song. He picked Imagine because he said the minute he heard it he knew he wanted to be a parent someday and raise kids that would do good in the world. I’m tearing up just thinking about getting to have that moment…

Hey now, there are lots of wealthy non-white folks in IC — all of my healthcare professionals aren’t white, and many of them are men.

Agreed! If anything, hopefully a tarnished reputation of how not nice King is being will help.

I would say we’re a medium/large state land-wide (compared to those tiny states on the East Coast) but our population is much smaller considering how much land we have. Everyone is also Midwestern nice to each other, so you often don’t know you have a bigot for a neighbor until you see his name on a retweet of some…

I lived in Iowa until 2008, moved away for work for a few years, and just moved back (though to a different part of the state) in August 2016 and HOLY FUCKING SHIT. This place is so different now. I was here when we were the 3rd state to legalize same sex marriage, I met Obama before he ran for president because he…

I get what you’re saying. My (previously sane, level-headed) sister has been with the same religious nut-job since college. She became pregnant freshman year and had an abortion and he guilted her so hard for it. Pregnant again a year later and they had the baby because she felt so guilty about the abortion and…

Just anti-sex for women’s pleasure.

Wut. I...I can’t...how did you...wut?

What gets me about these types of people is that they have no problem spouting off that nonsense to anyone with ears. And we are all too polite or embarrassed for them to say anything.

I commented this elsewhere, but my chiropractor is a trainer! He’s also very handsome and very politely declines when I try to set him up with my friends. He’s a self-employed, fit, handsome, well-spoken, educated, patient single dad. COME ON.

My chiropractor is also a trainer and very handsome (although 5" shorter than me). When I hurt my back very badly he did the chiropractics to get me out of pain, and then developed a training program for me to build functional strength. Even met me at the gym a few times to make sure I was doing it right. I’ve been…

A lot of chefs smoke because it is the only way to get a break during a 12+ hour shift. A lot don’t even take bathroom breaks unless it is an emergency. My sig is a non-smoker chef (1 of 2 at his workplace) and not only doesn’t get smoke breaks, but then extra doesn’t get breaks because the smoking chefs take breaks…

In reply to this whole thread/conversation: Pretty much.

When I shaved my head 2 years ago I didn’t even know what my natural color was because I’d been dying my hair several times a year since middle school. I kept the buzz for a year and now have been growing it out to something between a long-pixie and short-bob, and it is so healthy and lush. I get comments at the salon…

As someone who shaved my head by choice, it was a very awkward and sad line to walk. The very first couple of days after the buzz (we went all the way down, just short of straight razoring it), people on the street gave me very sad and concerned looks. I realized it was because they probably thought I was ill or in…

Women’s shaved heads are contagious. I have very thick unruly hair and have tried everything with it over the years. A few years ago I shaved it all off and LOVED it. I was 30, a professional, and living in a University town and so many women I’d seen around but never talked to would come up and say, “OMG I’ve always…

I was raised super Catholic, and seeing Devon at the end of Casper gave me some weird tingly feelings. I didn’t know quite what they were but I knew they were “bad” and then I felt extra guilty that he was actually a ghost and then worried that I was a necrophiliac (I had just learned that word from kids at school and…

I love Encino Man. That movie + Drop Dead Gorgeous are the two totally random flicks that my white bread rural Midwestern 60 year-old parents will watch any day when the family visits. It’s a fun weird little family tradition.

Maybe the two people had different relationships with her? I’m around the same age as Ivanka and remember her being in magazines as a teen model, so who knows what kind of “trying to be normal” life she was trying to live there. I’m only drawing from conversations with my SIL from years before Trumplestiltskin was…

I meant it more in a sci-fi body snatchers conspiracy theory kind of way, but I completely agree with you!