The guys I lost my virginity to ended up mildly famous, so I see him pop up on TV from time to time. Super helpful when my SO sees and pipes up, "Oh, look who it is on TV!" And more times than I care to count, new people I meet when I mention where / when I went to school say, "Oh, did you know FirstName LastName?"…

1) This is in NOOOOOOOO WAY intended to be victim blaming...

I know it's very easy and popular to hate Seth MacFarlane, but that he's 1) acknowledging the protests 2) saying his performance was pre-protest and 3) is pitching season 2 of cosmos on his twitter... I don't excuse the things about his work that piss me off, but I refuse to write off someone who acknowledges…

Are you? Are you? Coming to the tree. They strung up a man. Said he murdered three. Strange things have happened. How much stranger could they be? If we met up at midnight in hanging tree?

To me, Bourbons a really different based on age / cooperage. But if you want to enjoy them straight, for me.... nuts are the way to go.

Also, there is a gin shortage, because the Londoners have turned gin into the next "thing" and scots distilleries are actually shifting production.

Pappy Van Winkle reserve stocks for restaurants / bars started being a thing about 6-8 years ago. Bourbon supply / demand stories are about 4 years old if you're someone who's been actually following bourbon before the most recent mustacioed hipster "revolution".

I'm not sure what or where his fan base still /is/. I know he's still married to Trisha Yearwood, and try as I might to hate her cooking show because it IS sort of the Butter cousin to paula deen... she's ridiculously likable and seems to have a REALLY broad, varied group of true friends willing to be on her show.

Because I don't want to force it. I don't want to imply that my help is something I just force. I don't want to politicize the invitation. But I refuse to assume I cab be if help just for my "is"

I'm left wondering... how can I help. I'm a white woman with the privilege of education and connections. And with / despite all of that, three years ago, I went out on my own to start a company. It's been difficult, but as I've done it, and built mu company, I've done so with the requirement that 50% is for profit /…

"And it's actually quite fitting that we celebrate the birth of Jesus in the bleak midwinter, when the world appears to be sleeping and dying."

My partner worked for hir editor (whom he considers a mentor) and met Leslie on many occasions. He said hir work was the bellweather for their publishing company on feminist issues, and he met Leslie on several occasions. Zie suffered no fools but was still as kind as could be. Leslie was vocal about hir disease and…

I've been with many friends and family members through both types of announcements, and while immediately jumping up and down and saying congrats is never a sure response, surely one should know the people who know / trust her/him well enough to confide this in you to be able to decide among 1) How can I help (the…

As someone who is 40 and has never procreated (on purpose), there are many things other than this that indicate readiness / if you should ever procreate ;-)

I'd missed that story. Thanks for posting it!

I think you underestimate how much us "olds" appreciate her look and her style. Since I was a young'un, I've held it as a goal to get to a financial (and weight stability) point to be able to buy an amazing "suit" (be it Dior, Chanel, etc). Her as a model may not speak to her generation, but it speaks to the rest of…

I've been curious since seeing her commercial... is she still eligible for NCAA athletics? I know during the LLWS, she said she wasn't planning on doing any endorsements because she wanted to stay eligible for college sports. But do her ads make her now ineligible? Is she assuming by the time she's in college (with…

Not to be totally paranoid, but be careful where you put the talcum powder: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerc…

When I was a kid, my mom once spent a whole weekend sitting on a cement floor going through all of the things in the closets / crawlspaces as we reorganized the house. She ended up with a, um, "bump" about 2 inches in diameter that needed to be lanced by a doctor. Before she went to the doc, she was lying in bed for…

Total overshare, but my face acne is a constant, random explosion throughout the days / weeks / months, but I KNOW I'm going to get my period within 24 hours when the buttne explodes. It's been a good planning, tool, though, once I figured it out :)