A friend of mine gave birth in the car. She and her husband were going on a small weekend trip in the country (barely 1,5 hour drive), and she got into labour and things progressed like crazy. Her husband left the car to get help, and while he was away, she delivered the baby herself, while their toddler was watching…

Oh, this was me too. Like the flashback in 30 Rock where Liz Lemon realizes she gave the bullies worse than she got. They'd be coming at me with like "Your hair is ugly" and I'd be firing back with personal stuff like "Yeah, go ask your new housekeeper/stepmom now that your dad left your mom for her". I am not proud…

"I think it's possible to update your impression of people while still not wanting them in your life."

Yep. As Anne Lamott puts it, forgiveness is putting down your end of the rope in the tug of war—you're done. But it doesn't mean you want to have lunch with the person.

I don't think youth means ignorance of right or wrong either, but I think it can mean being too immature to fully understand the consequences of your actions or see things from other people's points of view.

I think there's a middle ground between standing someone up and outright forgiveness. A guy who bullied me in high school has asked me out several times. He's apologized for what he did - he was hampered by not remembering it much at all and not having thought of what he did remember as bullying, but I think he was…

Yeknow, I always say this: Do you want to be judged based on who you were at 18/16/14? I know I don't. I was a raving conservative in high school. I'd be mortified if people thought that was still me.

I did get tricked into an arrangement like this when I was in my early 20s. "You're homeless! We're friends! There's a spare room! You can pay rent!"

The Canadian press can be so awful at times, in 2014 most of brutalization is aimed at aboriginal women and you can get away with it. Most Canadians do not care how over 1,200+ aboriginal women have been murder or have gone missing, people who spoke out about what happened in Montreal need to speak out about what…

The significant others of awful people tend to have a fair few problems of their own, I suspect. You end up with a lot of relationships where terrible people are dating other terrible people. I may be desperately single but there are a whole heck of a lot of people I'm glad I'm not dating.

And at all these restaurants the sodium numbers are horrifying too!

I think of it that way too (for me everything is weighed against burgers and pizza). That's another reason this won't do anything without education and further change. Counting calories, while it may lead to weight loss, isn't necessarily a route to a healthy body. If I know a slice of pizza is the same number of…

I don't know if we're really guessing with all of the apps that help you count your calories and wristbands that tell you how much you've "moved" in a day, but sure, I'll go with it.

What about the amount of sugar??

Also what about amount of fat in your food??

I think this is a good thing. Calorie counts on menus do affect my choices. Example: Sorry, Starbucks, but I can no longer enjoy peppermint mocha lattes now that I know they're 500 calories for a venti.

I lived with my parents after grad school and sent the $30,000 I would have spent on housing to Sallie Mae instead. Helped out with my ailing grandparents while I was there.

My parents loaned me the money to start my own business and it changed my life. I refuse to feel bad about it and would never want to date someone who looked down on me for it.

Ugh, as an actual historian, like, with degrees and all that jazz, armchair historians are the most annoying people on earth. Oh, please tell me more about the names and important dates about dead white dudes. So stimulating.

Duh (with several syllables)