In was in the car with my mom, on my way to run an errand. She took my time in car captivity to ask 17-year-old me about a girl in town who had died from OD-ing on ecstasy. My mom asked me about “the ecstasy” and I was all snarky, like “what do you know about drugs, MOM?” [eye roll] She responded “You know, the one…

Funny story: when explaining to my then 3yr old about name calling, & why it’s not ok to call someone a baby (unless they are actually a baby), but it IS ok to call someone a love bug, I told her that it’s OK to use a name of something that everybody loves so that no ones feelings would be hurt. For the next two years…

Now I see that my cat has been reading this, and it all is so obvious. Like when I wake up in the middle of the night to find him lording over me staring with murder in his eyes, I sometimes catch his eye quickly and (like the email) he breaks eye contact like it was an accident and leaps off the bed making a loud…

Do you not see that’s she’s turning around the argument people are using to not have to give other people to civil rights to spite them?

I think if you look at the history of these laws, they are almost always written and enacted to discourage the congregation of homeless people, not for food health and safety reasons. http://www.nlchp.org/documents/No_S…

Seriously, that’s what you got out of this article?

Sorry, I ran out to get some Popeye’s.

This one is dated, and doesn’t technically involve the musician, but I’ll share. Also, I’m not sure if it is true, but considering my aunts love to tell the story when they’re drunk, and my mother gets all huffy while not explicitly calling it a lie, I believe it. My mom and two of her sisters came to the US (she’s…

I give my husband a little pat on the tushy after I buy him something pretty. That way he knows I'm emasculating him.

Welcome to my former dating world where the guys had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with the woman buying them dinner, drinks, plane tickets...;-). It’s a balancing act. There are certainly people who are a bit TOO comfortable being wined and dined by other people’s wallets. That’s not great either...

Pulling out your credit card is a great way to find out if you want to see the guy again. If he expresses discomfort at a woman paying, then you know you don’t have to waste your time on a second date.

I'm a pretty good packer, however, the casual clothing of my youth is no longer appropriate or flattering for the places I visit when I travel. Plus, there are certain medications I must take on board just to be sure they don't get lost. I've learned medications must be in full size containers with the prescription…

It would be so easy to make this guy melt down on camera. Send a smart woman to interview him and give her instructions to poke him on any duplicitous answer. Start a couple questions with “As a woman, I’d like to ask you...”

Judging by Drew’s shirt, Chopped must have been filmed immediately after middle school picture day.

Ours is a long story, too long to recount here, so I'll say this...if our story had a title it would be:

Confondre des Gaulles would be a great airport if it only had to serve as an example of interesting architecture and a playground for machinery. Nobody seems to have thought of how people were supposed to navigate it — especially foreigners who have to do complicated tasks such as deciding which possibly quite distant…

Atheism is not a religion, because it’s the absence of religion. It’s a philosophy of not taking anything on faith.

Hi, I’ll explain why it becomes a shitstorm. I meet christian people at least once a week that just “HAVE TO pray for me” even though I tell them I do not want them to. My mailbox is flooded with pamphlets about how “Jesus saves the world”, or “you are a sinner, even though you think you’re not”. I also have people at…

Look, good christian children should only have to do exercises inspired by the bible. Like dodge ball. Which is just stoning without rocks.