I have always known that a three-month course of a powerful antibiotic a few years ago started a weight-gain slide for me that took a very long time to reverse. I don’t think it was just the change in my gut biota, however. I sort of kept giving up and eating whatever I wanted when the scale didn’t change. I am thin…

Your friend sounds as though he had a psychotic disorder and had delusions and auditory hallucinations.. Many people with psychosis can appear functional at times. Chances are, his parents DID know something was up with their son and were either in denial about it (as so, so many parents are, at least initially) and…

Oh, yeah — on the canal between Morris and the end at Lockport. Hubs and I have biked the whole thing.

You are talking about my home. I grew up on the Towpath. I have never felt, heard, or seen anything unusual. Thing is, *it’s my home* and I feel absolute safety and peace there. One time, my best gf and I got stuck in the park after dark and had to climb the steep staircase up the bluff to the Lodge with no source of…

“Champagne,” in America, is a generic term. Legally, sparkling wine cannot be called Champagne unless it’s from Champagne. But that has not stopped Americans from calling Puffs tissues “Kleenex,” or a myriad variety of pop “Coke.” Also, whoever implied that Riesling is somehow not a white wine clearly does not…

Colin Pinkham’s head just exploded.

Most of these stories are already in other “Best of 2014/5” anthologies, though.

Every single player in this stupid legal game sucks.

I'm 80 miles from the courthouse and I can smell the narcissism from here. It smells like fart.

Oh, just . . . ugh. There goes the last innocent scrap of my childhood.

Yeahhhhhh . . . I am BEYOND being over the goddamned government conspiracies. It's to the point that whenever my husband and I watch any new show, regardless of genre or content, we will takes bets on the number of minutes before the vast government cover-up/conspiracy is revealed.

I’ve had it for over 50 years. It was a birthday present when I first learned to read. Also a book of children’s poems that technically wasn’t mine, but belong to my brother and sister, also.

All of the Earthsea books, yes! But especially The Tombs of Atuan — the first truly well-written coming-of-age book with a girl as the lead character.

Just about everything, unless they themselves have been in therapy. The stereotypes about clinical psychologists make my head spin. One of the biggest misconceptions about my job is that I am aloof, not very interactive, and unfathomable as a person. In fact, I am very warm, highly interactive, and do share a lot…

How can Blaine’s henchman survive being shot but Lowell is dead? That logical flaw is driving me nuts. And, because there WAS blood all over Major’s room when he shot the guy, what DID happen to it??

Every page is a poem.

Poor Roger Zelazny. I devoured the Amber books when I was a teenager, but as a middle-aged adult . . . . Well, let’s just say the 70s vibe of those books did not age well.

Because most of the writers are men who are trying to appeal to males. I think men are afraid of women at some level, truly (yes, I’m generalizing). When Root refers to the Machine as “she,” it’s because Root recognizes the power of women. When male writers make robots/AIs female, it feels like it’s because they’re…

Squeeeeeeee!!! I posted a photo of my brindle greyhound, too!

This is the established state of every greyhound I have had, ever.