I hear you. The Mister and I felt very strongly that there should only be one gift-giving event associated with our wedding — the wedding itself — so we specified no gifts at the engagement party, skipped the bridal shower, and had small bachelor/bachelorette parties with real debauchery (much booze and nudity)…

I can see the logic to saying that Christianity is against homosexuality. But I don't understand why we don't disregard those passages the same way that we disregard the passages saying that men with crushed testicles won't get into heaven, menstruating women are unclean, non-virgins should be stoned, owning slaves is…

L. Frank Baum was definitely ahead of his time when it came to portraying female characters, but he wasn't quite feminist enough for my father, who read all the books to me as a small child. When I was old enough to read them myself, I realized he'd made a number of tweaks. For example, in a scene where a female…

It's weird, but not as weird as when someone who acquires a rhyming last name via marriage (like Marcy D'Arcy on Married With Children). But maybe I'm just used to the same-name thing since I know two different married couples where both people are named Chris/Kris.

I met him a few years ago! He came to a friend's backyard graduation party (he was dating that friend's cousin at the time) across the country from where he was living at the time. When I spotted this impossibly handsome stranger — I didn't know until later that he was a well-known actor — I thought, "Wow, that guy is…