I apologize for the length of this post, but it’s so rare to see an article on Antarctica, and I have to take those opportunities to introduce as many people as possible to the most amazing person - Robert Swan. OBE. I met him in early 2001 when he was keynote speaker at a conference I attended, and his speech sparked…

I totally agree. I agree so much I quoted you in another thread...

My cat just plonks herself down (elegantly) underneath me in down dog or cat cow or whatever, like I’m her shelter. Then she’ll rub her face on mine when I’m close to the floor. When I’m not stationary she stretches out at the end of the mat so I have to shove her off the end just to get into plank.

Were the monies she paid back court costs & attorney’s fees or...?

Sock it to me.

Are there two people coincidentally named Ron Jonson & Jon Ronson?

That reminds me of a human sexuality book I read in high school that said “a vagina is a hostile acid environment” - a turn of phrase I really liked. :)

When I got married (at 45) we bought fancy crystal high and low ball glasses for ourselves because they were on sale at Tuesday Morning & they were Shannon crystal, which is hubby’s last name. That was in 2008 and they are never used. I only use the same Disney 100th anniversary glass I got at a thrift store.

What kind of beauty products are made from cheese, much less home-made cheese?

What about this mind-numbingly stupid effort?

I forgot to mention his close-set beady eyes...

Yeah, I count myself supremely grateful that she disappeared completely from our lives when I was in 9th grade. I don’t know how she would have dealt with her aging and my puberty/adolescence. She was the prototypical evil stepmother - so nice to us leading up to the marriage, and afterwards around my dad, but rotten…

Wow, maybe my stepmom married your dad after mine divorced her. I can still hear her telling me when I was about 7 that my laugh made her sick. She left when I was 12, thank god, or I don’t know what else she would have done - she’d already hit me on the head with the coffee pot. Once she got mad over some childish…

I find his pouty, round, baby-fat face unpleasant and his general demeanor annoying. I don’t find him remotely attractive. Even in a GOT context I just want him to take a bath.

I completely agree - humiliation and discipline are two completely separate things, and humiliation is all about power, nothing else.

As a woman with a robust sex drive, as I grapple with “the change” I notice that sex is of less interest to me - not that I can’t get aroused, orgasm, etc. - it’s more like “meh”. To say that it is a purely psychological phenomenon is not true.

She doesn’t look like she has the strength to lift one of those shoes off the ground. Maybe that’s why she’s lying on the floor?

Yes, I find myself quoting him with this one quite often - “What ARE you listening to? Sounds like street repair.”

Oh my god, the baby oil/sun reflector thing...my dad used to say “why don’t you just use butter?” (Why do the annoying things he said when I was growing up seem so funny now?)

May I add that in addition to slowing the effects of aging due to sun damage, it also lessens your chance of skin cancer. I never wore sunscreen because “I look better with a tan” and they had to dig through every layer of skin in my forehead to dig out the cancer. NOT fun. (The fact that it was misdiagnosed as…