then stop hiding it! Just do the reveal in conversation just as you would with your friends. All my female friends act so conversationally casual about it and it actually makes me feel special that they include me like that. The earlier you scare the losers off, the better.

thanks for this. With 1/2 of all Americans unable to scrape together $400 in the event of an emergency expense, your description of the face of homelessness is more spot-on than many realize.

Yeah, that thought occurred to all of us as well. I wonder if she'd let me count her papillae. (that sounds.....wrong)

My mother-in-law is EXTREMELY sensitive to any sort of hot spice; everything from peppercorns, to cayenne. Any trace of any of it in her food makes her dining experience terribly unpleasant, so even though she isn't allergic, she has found that the only way to keep it out of her food at a restaurant is to SAY she is…

Noooooooo! I've followed your writing since you were a local gal here in Seattle.

Petrichor?

I'm pretty sure Tinder is more for hook-ups. I met the woman of my dreams on OKC!

Agreed! I was starting my 40's and had just finished a terrible, costly divorce from a physically and emotionally abusive person; I was DONE. But I gave it one last chance and met the woman of my dreams. We're in our 4th year now, and I never knew it could be like this. I seriously had NO IDEA it could be so…

I don't know if I saw that one! But yeah, she's an exception (the episode where she got arrested for tasting her dog's butt stands out.) I think a large part of why it works is that her show is more satire than sit-com.

That one came to mind immediately. I thought that was a great episode.

What the fuck right does a public school have to dictate hair-length? (serious question.)

Do male trolls threaten to rape their male victims until they are dead and then shove tire irons into their anuses? OR to drink blood from their genitals? Or to kill/maim torture them in a sexualized manner? If so, I've never heard of it.

This works nothing like a swamp cooler. Swamp coolers are evaporative.

She's still badass

Jesus Christ, Food Babe should get off her computer and just go into a fucking Starbucks. If you ask, they'll SHOW YOU THE BAG WITH THE INGREDIENT LIST RIGHT ON IT. I did that and never ordered their green tea lattes again after that.

Do you think your dad my have said "magpies" instead of "mad pies?" It kind of makes sense that way. I mean, not in context, but in HIS train of thought.

When I was in college, I had a basement bedroom in a shared house. The basement was only semi-finished; the main basement adjacent to my room had concrete floors and walls, but was slightly smaller than the footprint of the house, and the walls only went up about 4 or 5 feet, behind which dirt extended another two…

you can get pet doors that only unlock for the pet, via a magnetic chip in the collar.

in Italy it is required that the head be left on so you know an unscrupulous butcher isn't selling you cat.

I'm in WA too. Before the DWD act passed here, I fully intended upon moving back to Oregon when I got old, or sick.