Ugh. That diet. Oprah. Cut it out. You’re bigger than me and I’ve failed on this diet too many times. WW rarely works long term for most. There’s no real maintenance program—eat more until you start gaining then stop? That’s a life program? Even though you pretend to eat “healthier” the diet skews toward high-end…

I’m sorry, but I adore the false glamour. I look at the ‘perfect’ family photos of friends and family with the ‘perfect’ clothes, in the ‘perfect’ settings, with the ‘perfect’ photoshopped faces. Then I think, I remember how you passed out in my closet in college. Or I remember you standing on the roof, threatening to…

As someone who has never cared for monarchies, I hate how adorable I find the entire family. It really bugs me, but I have to be honest. From William, who was also an adorable child and so much better looking than his father or grandfather, to his beautiful wife and their beautiful children. And they keep their mouths…

Considering the toaster oven, the “sold out” clothing line-only sold online and was never updated, the party planning biz that fizzled, the toaster oven cookbook never published, the Nigerian football team never actually sponsored, and the jewelry line that was in turns, for working women or aspirational-depending on…

When I was a kid, I looovvved her catalog. I’d snatch it out of the mail and look at the strange, odd world of pretty things with your initials on them. Your initials, for gosh sakes! Ornaments, easter eggs, bean bag chairs, moccasins, picture frames, tote bags, PJs—all with your name or initials on them. My mother…

He scares me too.

I hate that wanting to communicate effectively makes me look old. I am, but I hate looking that way. (LOL—unless I’m doing that wrong too)

I know! Cruise actually said—“You get to be the monkey in the house!”???How does anyone make sense of that?

He is a charmin’ man.

Those right-wingers are so absurdly tough on their womenfolk. Complete double standard. Heaven forbid a woman steps out of line or behaves differently than she “should”. She didn’t say anything more truthful or less delusional than the rest. She just said shit. All those middle aged men clutch their pearls in horror.

“Jesus H. Christ,” is what my mom will say when she hears his name in a year or two.

Thanks for sharing that. I love your story. I’m sorry, but I’m going to tell all my nerd friends about it.

At least she’d give us some good laughs, not the sad-clown ones like Trump.

To verify, for Republicans, that he’s not the Bush they want. That’s why he keeps doing this to himself.

If it makes anyone feel any better— We have two boys. For each kid, my husband took a total of two days off. He didn’t even like his jobs much at those times, it was just so much better than being around crying, diapery babies, and an exhausted bitchy wife. I don’t think he’d have spent any more or less time if we had…

I have learned to love lizards through the years. I have a child who loves them so I’ve learned to see what’s, “cute and fascinating and amazing” about them. I actually cried when one of the kittens accidently killed a lovely yellow gecko we’d had for years. But if I saw that thing on my house, I’d freak. (But…

We’ve always had guns. Something else shifted in our society that made it okay for people to shoot up a McDonalds, or church, or whatever or wherever they have a grievance, real or imagined. What broke? People used to be enraged, mentally ill and had guns but this didn’t happen on a yearly basis, much less weekly…

She is. It’s always weird to me when I see a really pretty or handsome writer. I always assumed writers were nice looking, but nothing to write home about. Then I saw Alice Walker for the first time (decades ago) and was surprised that someone so beautiful could be that amazingly thoughtful and perceptive. I know that…

“What a surprise,” said no one.

Hold on, there is a point to this long, meandering story. After the Communist revolution, my great-grandfather said uh-oh, I’m on the wrong side and had to get the heck out of Russia. He decided on the US, and with a lot of work, and over years, got his whole family here. When I was growing up at the end of the cold…