I’m worried that, without receipts, someone from the dude’s distant past will not be taken seriously. Especially if they want to remain anonymous and protect the identity of the survivors. Absolutely DO NOT out your friends as “evidence.”

I have really high anxiety (working in healthcare during a pandemic), so I can only read the news in fits and spurts before I feel like I’m going explode into flames and not be able to get out of bed for work in the morning. The way you’ve summarized a few key news items here was a breath of fresh air, and got me to…

I hate getting any medical treatment for this reason. I’m not an MD, but have a PhD in a health science field, and work at a non-emergency specialized health care facility where we see patients from all walks of life. I also have a chronic auto-inflammatory disease.

I am so so sorry for your loss. He was, is, and will be my favorite artist forever. I could sing you every song from his catalog, in order, right now. A true poet and wordsmith of the people. I cannot imagine the pain you and others close to him are feeling. A “celebrity” death has never hit me so hard, and I’m just…

My mother watched children’s public television and soap operas in the 70s to practice an “American” accent when she moved to rural Midwest from Germany, because all the hicks said she either sounded like a Nazi or a Gypsy and she wasn’t being taken seriously at work.

Missed opportunity to discuss musician Justin Townes Earle’s death a couple of months ago. His toxicology report was recently released. He long struggled with addiction, including heroin, and died from fucking fentanyl laced cocaine. Such a tragic and senseless loss, especially for someone who openly talked about his…

Yes. I am so fucking lucky that my spouse and I are both okay during all of this... in health, family, economics, jobs, etc. We’ve already decided where we’d reroute our money should the expanded relief checks come through. It feels weird to turn away “free money,” but these funds are much more desperately needed by…

Bizarre turn of events... that nice guy eventually married the woman that the shitty boyf dated before me. So I guess his m.o. was being the knight in shining armor to his roommate’s scorned gfs...?!

Wow, what a rollercoaster read! So sorry that happened to you and hope Bob got some therapy.

A little later in life, but that reminds me when one of my best friends was getting married and had a handful of bridesmaids. The wedding shower was the first in the schedule of celebrations that bmaids planned, and Shelby* —a bridesmaid and the bride’s BFF from college— didn’t show up. No call, no show, couldn’t get…

Ugh, how selfish and rude. Thumbs down.

If 2020 has taught anything...

~13 years ago...

Probably spends more than 4 minutes wasting your time with that argument!

Exactly, well put. My parents did the opposite in the worst possible way. Chores were used as punishment. Mouthed off? Mow the lawn. Hit your sister? Dump out all of your dresser drawers and refold your clothes. Slam a door in a pouty fit? Get dad’s toolbox from the garage and take the door off the hinges yourself and…

Genuine question: Why pay him as incentive? Cleaning a space is part and parcel of living in a space. What about cleaning a bathroom in exchange for an hour of TV time or something? I’m asking this from the perspective of a female who never got paid for chores.

My sister took advantage of lots of therapy moving online at the beginning of the pandemic, finally convincing her dude of 15 years (they have kids together, too) to try it. A few weeks in the therapist followed up with my sister individually and recommended she see a different therapist 1-on-1 and tell that therapist…

Ughhh to that college BF. I had the exact same experience, laid up in my dorm room in illness agony. My bf eventually stopped answering his phone when I was like, “I think something is seriously wrong and I need to go to convenient care.” His friend and roommate (a guy I saw often, but wouldn’t have called a friend)…

Huh? That is definitely Chicago. You can even zoom in on the photo (all the way to the left) and see “Chicago” on the banners hanging from the street posts. Chicago has lots of “normal” looking neighborhoods outside of the skyscraper-laden downtown.

Thanks for reporting on this, it is very important.