Also the locals are working class people of color. Another reason they became “easy to forget.”

Ayre?

Same here. We can’t abandon our dogs so it’s making an already distant pipe dream of moving abroad even more difficult.

Yes. This is what I’ve been saying all along about this particular case. That suddenly we’ll finally hold a cop accountable because she’s a woman. All cops should be held accountable. Her mistake cost someone’s life, and the never ending grief of a family and community. It also set women in male dominated professions…

Oof. I’m so sorry. And yeah this article doesn’t cover what to expect/do if your partner isn’t down with the idea. Attacking, blaming, shaming are bad moves in any relationship/communication, and potentially more harmful while proposing polyamory than just not saying anything at all.

That’s by a neo-con organization that blames poor people and non-married people with kids for the nation’s problems. They see cohabitating as a negative and not a perfectly acceptable way to be in a relationship and nurture a family. They prioritize legal marriage above any other kinds of relationships.

There’s a fun beach-read fiction called The Arrangement that follows this kind of storyline.

Am I getting kinja’d or is there no interview text after the intro paragraphs?

I said aughts, not 80s :)

This guy and his band came through my rural area in the midlate-aughts, and he was a SUPER creep. Like a sour “do you know who I am?” attitude, sprinkled with disdain for the rural Midwesterners who, no, did not know who he was — topped with “I am clearly a rock star” attire.

This is a huge deal and an important issue that I hadn’t heard about yet, and I work in abortion care. Thank you for covering this Emily!

I wrote about a supernatural/mystical/unexplained experience I had for the Scary Stories contest a few years back. Other readers actually helped sleuth a bit of what happened, which took me down a rabbit hole on my own and now I own way too many books about ghosts, hauntings, premonitions, and other-worldly…

My spouse and I tried to rewatch Friends and the jokes do not hold up. They are mean and discriminatory. All of them, except maybe Phoebe, are horrible people, and even Phoebe’s character is made out to be a lovable idiot, which is insulting. The “nostalgia for a time before I even had consciousness” is very…

It’s 2021, my 18/19 year old freshmen were born in 2002. Friends was in Season 8 by then, culminating in 2005. Watching dozens of students traipse around campus in f.r.i.e.n.d.s. re-issue crew neck sweatshirts makes me feel unwelcome twinges of rage. Now I understand how my dad felt when I bought and wore —from a mains…

I love nutritional yeast and liquid aminos and coconut aminos. He loves Szechuan peppercorns and seaweed flake. We also use Maldon salt almost daily. Not sure how that would work for someone needing a low salt diet, but I assume if they are making exclusively low/no salt foods, a little sprinkle won’t hurt anyone.

I’m married to a chef and you just listed everything on the 2nd and 3rd shelves of our pantry. 🧑‍🍳 

Today is 100 days since I’ve had a drink and 100 days of doing yoga and meditation daily. I’ve been on a roller coaster of Big Feelings for 100 days, and I’m learning so much about myself and the world around me. I’ve never stuck to anything for this long in my entire life.

Lord, give me the unearned confidence of a mediocre white man!

Greetings from the queen of hiding fast food wrappers in my neighbors’ outdoor trash cans after consuming it in the dark in my parked car while my husband is at work. He’s NEVER ever shamed me about eating before, but I still felt the need to hide my binges.

That is a super interesting research topic, and you are wise to be aware of what it can do to dig into the research. Is it a master’s or PhD (or another kind of) thesis? It would depend how deep you have to go and how long the project is.