Oh, dude, I feel you. My pops passed away almost four years ago, and holidays writ large are still full of all the suck.

Here’s my dad at about 30ish in short shorts...

As someone who used to work for a delivery restaurant in a very wealthy college town, I can totally corroborate that the rich do, in fact, genuinely think that money solves everything. If I had a dollar for every time some obnoxious frat boy called the store on a football night demanding that I call whoever was…

As an Orly maniac in the early 2000s, I am *extremely* disappointed by how much he’s starting to look like the Queen as he ages.

Could you possibly be referring to a.... Cumberbatch?

Okay, so I just had a bridal shower to go to this last Saturday and oh. my. god. I would have been so fucking relieved to just mail my cousin and his bride-to-be that $50 check (which will later be joined by a hand-embroidered Christmas table runner.) without having to play half-assed shower games and make awkward…

*sigh* I remember when the Tulsa Shock were the Detroit Shock, and I would go to the Palace of Auburn Hills on Sunday afternoons.

So, I may have mentioned before that Momma Tehr00k made a concerted effort to be super sex-positive (relative to her own upbringing) so it was always clear to me that if I had questions or concerns about anything, I could come to her. One day, when I was about 13, we were talking about a friend of mine who was worried…

THIS. OMIGOD.

Totes Sasha.

THIS. DUDE. THIS.

So, real talk: Separate bedrooms probably saved my parents' marriage. My dad was a very loud snorer and a morning person. My mom is a night owl who finds it hard to fall asleep around loud noises. They made it work for about 12 years before saying "fuck this" and each taking small bedrooms at opposite ends of the…

Aren't we all?

Jesus H! $250 for a wedding gift?! Do you have any single cousins/nephews/brothers between the ages of 25 and 35 interested in short Polish-American midwesterners? :P

Oh man, I've been a pretty loose woman over the years, but I've never once had period sex, even though I get crazy horny around day 3 or 4 (after the really heavy flow is over) and I've seriously dated guys that have expressed being uncomfortable with the idea... Is it really that great? I mean, it seems super gross…

So, I have mad respect for Sikhs' theology around the human body— not in the least because I'm an Episcopalian, so I alternate between a progressive, mystical Christian paradigm of "Wow, humanity is in the image of the divine... my body is AWESOME, even when it's being gross!" and an old-school Anglo-Catholic paradigm…

We really don't deserve Obama. He's energetic, he's funny, he's smart, he has vision, and he has refused to stoop to the childish bickering in which most of DC engages. I'm not saying I agree with every decision he's made, because I don't, but really, he's a better guy than we deserve.

THANK YOU! I'm also from a blue state and went to an SEC School (Hotty Toddy, y'all!) and while shit like this tends to be on display a lot more in The South, let's not forget that blackface at a frat party was in the news at University of Michigan and that all sorts of racist bs happens at Northern schools all the…

Oh man. I was signing people up for appointments at the expo in exchange for $100 off coupons for six hours straight. I had to BE one of those vultures scanning the dense crowd for a visible BRIDE to approach, congratulate, explain our offer to, and then hand a clipboard and push off towards a row of tables manned…

I worked one of the biggest bridal shows in the state for the bridal salon I work for and oh.my.God. The whole thing made me REALLY want to have a courthouse wedding. Bad.