I missed the original article, but here’s a small story. I live in the foothills above Los Angeles. The fastest way to get to the freeway from my house is to go down a windy road. This windy part is also extremely short (less than a minute travel time), and when you get to the end of the windy part, the road widens…

On the opposite extreme, I was written up once at an office job for laughing too loud. My laugh was “too loud and disruptive to a professional working environment.” So at TJ’s people have to pretend to be happy, and at my old job, you have to be miserable and, if you aren’t, they’ll do their best to correct that.

I think you’re reading more into the word submit than I meant. To clarify, she does have to agree to marry him to break the curse. She can’t live with him as his friend, leave or enjoy lots of furry sex without commitment. She has to buy into the cultural mores in which the story is set. She has to submit to the…

I will look for this, it sounds interesting.

My (totally unresearched and probably wildly wrong) theory is that this story presents an accurate depiction of marriage among the wealthier classes during the time period portrayed. The daughter has to marry whomever her father chooses, at the time of his choosing, and most of them would never even have met their…

When I go shopping with friends, we have to take turns. This mostly means that I don’t get a turn, as they wear straight sizes and, by the time we finish the entire floor of the department store that has straight sizes, I’m often just too tired to trek all the way to the back of the third floor behind the housewares…

I wonder how Baldasaro is going to feel if it is determined by the FBI that Trump was in direct, constant and secret communication with Kremlin insiders. I am very uncomfortable with the idea that this may actually be true.

When one of my favorite restaurants caught on fire, it took them 2 years before they could reopen their business in a new location. They were waiting for insurance to pay out for a large portion of that time, then had to find a new location. I suspect that the abortion clinic had a very had time finding a new…

I think impeachment only applies to things that happen while serving as president. Do we have constitutional scholars to rule on this? I don’t think we’ve had a situation where prior bad acts caused an impeachment. As I recall, the last impeachment was for perjury, not for any of the things that had led to the…

In California, you have to pass a test and get a license to call yourself an agent. You can’t legally call yourself a broker until you’ve worked under a licensed broker for a number of years.

I was certainly naive. I live in Los Angeles, but my brother lives in a small SoCal city about an hour from here. The problem, of course, is that there is no one else to call. If he had been capable of listening to reason, we wouldn’t have needed to have him hospitalized.

Yes, the more stories that come out, the more glad that I am that things worked out well for my brother.

I really wish that all police were trained for properly dealing with the mentally ill. If she was only suffering from depression, it’s unlikely that she was a danger to her children, only to herself.

Heather, please explain “lack of supervisors for stunts.” I don’t know the meaning of stunts in a voice-acting context.

Three of my college friends studied in France for a few semesters during the Ice Age when I was young. They told me that the only found two ways to get men to leave them alone. One was to act as if they suffered from cerebral palsy and the other was to tell them, straight out, “Go cut it off.” They said that it…

What I don’t understand is, why don’t they just refund him the cost of the tuition. He uses it to pay back the loans or to enroll elsewhere. He could still sue, but I would guess that there is a lot less damage to be awarded if the financial penalty is small.

She must be wealthy. The cost of health care for 12 cats would be exorbitant, even with insurance.

I bought the Purse Pocket “as seen on TV” and was disappointed because it is actually much to small to hold anything but a small clutch. However, it allows me to put my purse on the center console because it prevents it from falling behind the seat during acceleration.

You left out the most important piece of information we want: Is it showing in the US?!

Okay, once I got through digesting the bizarro world where the victim is jailed and the perpetrator is free, I have to ask this: People in jail have to purchase their own feminine hygiene products?!