God help me, i LOVED Abercrombie in college. I still have a winter jacket from there that has somehow lasted all these years (and still fits!). I remember one time i was there shopping, and someone mistook me for an employee and i was all AWWW YOU THINK IM ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO WORK HERE THATS THE NICEST THING TO…

I think American Eagle’s aerie line is more inline with what teenagers/young women want to wear now. I haven’t been in a victoria’s secret for a decade...

I’m not really okay. I function because the one thing that never left me and keeps me going is a sense of humor (often gallows variety) that gets me through. But while >125 surgeries and hundreds of dermatological procedures have allowed me to look something like myself, internal injuries remain. I have only one…

I’m going to try to follow Katy Perry’s remarkable grace right now, though my thoughts about Trump’s evil and ignorant tweet are much darker.

Thanks, friend!

Don’t waste the money on school. Get a job in a kitchen. Going to school without the experience beforehand is dumb. This is taken from the grousing my culinary school graduate friends have done.

My family’s tolerance for spicy food is a fraction of mine, so when I get these opportunities I proceed accordingly—usually either hot af Texas chili, or those sriracha chicken thigh skewers from Bon Appetit. Someday, if they’re gone for a whole weekend or something, I’m gonna fry up some Nashville-style hot chicken…

It sounds like there are 2 toddlers in your house.  My sympathies.

Sounds like heaven.

I always cook for myself, and if my kids don’t like it, then they know they better learn to cook for themselves. As a consequence, they enjoy a wide variety of foods.

I don’t even think it’s necessarily about cooking but rather occasionally giving a damn about the quality of stuff you eat. The best thing I ate all year was sliced tomatoes from my own garden on fresh bread from a local bakery with a little mayo. And it was the sort of thing that French people are always talking…

Just get divorced and be emotionally unavailable and you get to cook for yourself all the time!

I am an introvert who has been doing Toastmasters for over 6 years now. I went from being barely able to talk to strangers to being able to talk in front of 80 people and not panic at the idea. However, it still is exhausting to deal with people. I take hour-long naps after a major Toastmasters event. You can make…

Saw Dan Savage in a hotel lobby. To my husband: Hey, that was Dan Savage. Husband: Who?

Uh, could you write an article on how to change back?  I followed the advice here and well, uh, now I’m an asshole.  

Yep, I learned that it’s the most insecure people who tend to go far because they have to bluff their way through their professional life. The best, the outright con artists, tend to go the furthest. My failure was thinking my work, and reputation for doing it quickly and inventively, would somehow speak for me. It’s…

That’s how I got fired from my last job - my new manager couldn’t wrap his head around the fact that I’d gotten as far as I had despite my introversion and aversion to being center stage (it helps to be a polymath). He tied my annual performance goals around doing things that would raise my visibility in the company.…

He is literally going to get a reporter killed. I wish they’d all turn their backs and walk out. Let him talk to an empty room with no cameras or microphones.

“Nine Little-known Freedoms: You won’t believe #5!”

Captain: Should we stop for fuel soon?