It also seems like wine and champagne are “fancy” and therefore you don’t have a problem. It’s weird.

Oh yeah, I’m well aware it’s not just moms. The discomfort around a non-drinker is everywhere.

I’m a mom who doesn’t drink (anymore) and you would think I have 3 heads when another mom offers me a drink and I turn her down. “Wait...what? Why? Did something happen? Did you stop because you thought you had, like, a problem?” The questioning then becomes this: “Well, you have your soda water while the rest of us…

Yep. I’ve been unpacking many a story from my past and it’s been...eye opening. Some have hit me like a ton of bricks and left me wondering how on earth I could have completely blocked them out of my head, but it’s the number of the seemingly ordinary-course encounters I’ve had throughout my life that have left me…

Hurray for single moms!

My first was unplanned and I was 30 and in the terror of my life. I already knew somewhere in the deep recesses of my brain that I had made a mistake marrying the person I did, so there’s that. Regardless, though, just the thought of having a kid at that time made me absolutely panic. Turns out, I had 2 more with him…

Yep. She even went on talk shows parroting her husband’s birther bullshit back when he wasn’t running for anything. She’s 100% complicit and I feel nothing for her other than pure disdain.

It’s really defeating and exhausting and you know what? It takes a toll on my already-fragile/almost-nonexistent self esteem so that’s why I never last long. What, I’m supposed to put myself out there only to end up feeling more lonely than I did when I put the profile together? I get it, I do. So are you college-age?…

They’re really depressing matches, though, because no one writes or responds so it’s just a bunch of people mindlessly swiping on pictures with no intent to actually meet. This is why I never last long with this because it makes me feel like this is just how it’s going to be until I end up in the urn, you know? I wish…

o.k. now I feel like I need to try OKCupid again. I woke up Monday morning and decided to grow the f up and deal with the Tinder indignities, but I’m already close to maximum pain level and it’s been less than 48 hrs. I haven’t been on OKC for a few years so maybe the new format won’t feel weird to me? God, this whole…

Correct. It’s junk science and this whole thing is pushing me right over the edge. I think I’m finally losing my mind because I’ve been tweeting at Lindsay Graham today like it’s my job. Of course, these caring, pro-baby fighters couldn’t be bothered to deal with the REAL problem of of the US having the highest…

I don’t even know what that’s supposed to mean. Legend Pain-my god.

Same. It’s fucking enraging. If someone is going to be an armchair lawyer, the least they could do is look up the basics here and understand that it’s a sentencing hearing, not a trial. Go to any criminal court in the country where they are sentencing someone found guilty of felony murder and you’ll hear a 20 minute…

Stop. This can’t be true. “Xtreme”.

1) Great response to a pathetic comment; 2) I hope you’re doing o.k.

My second thought, right after, “wtf - by the time I make it to the gate of an int’l flight, I’ve shown my passport and boarding pass to 600 people.” And then she’s able to waltz on to a BA flight to London out of O’Hare - and GET A SEAT?

Even just you mentioning that scene with Metcalf driving around the airport makes me weepy. I thought she crushed that role and I would love to see her win.

Lawyers I know who have picked juries say they want to go home and shower afterwards, because they realize all of the assumptions they make about people when they are thinking about challenges.

Same. I put mine off for months because of how ugly I knew it was going to be. And it was ugly. Still is at times and we’ve been divorced for 12 f’ing years, but at least now I can just ignore his vile texts/emails and pretend he doesn’t exist. Give me 2 houses and a promise that I only have to see your evil ass a…

Yes, they have ‘tutors’, ‘mentors’, ‘chaperones’ you name it...but they all operate under the same power structure. There is very good reason so many child stars turn out so jacked up.