I was the flower girl at my parents' wedding. I stopped the entire ceremony to sit down in the middle of the aisle and loudly demand "pink cake" (the wedding cake). My cousin, who's mentally disabled, had been told to just do whatever I did, so we both sat down in the middle of the aisle and kicked up a fuss. They…

I had two hip replacements before I turned 25, so I hear you on how tough it can be to do yoga when you have hip issues. I've discovered that, unfortunately, if you have chronic pain/disability, you'll get injured if you don't shell out to go to a private studio or one-on-one lessons. I kept getting injured during…

Man, I really, really wanted to like Bikram yoga. I've got arthritis etc. and my skeleton is basically held together with duct tape, so I figured it might help even me out. But when I got injured from overcompensating for my bad hip flexion, the instructor told me that I should just keep pushing through the injury…

One time in grad school, I was at a party at the home of a classmate. He came up to me and began stroking my hands.

My mom got married in that purple number or one that was nearly identical. (It was Laura Ashley). I was 2 (and a flower girl) and I stopped the entire wedding to demand that the wedding cake be cut and eaten immediately, upon which I got grossed out by the marzipan/fondant and smeared the rest up my mom's dress.

He does know that the original Modest Proposal is about eating babies and sarcasm, right?

When my mom was a chubby kid in the 50s/ 60s, the only clothes she would fit into were called "Chubbette." Names of plus-sized clothing have definitely become more sensitive.

I would differentiate between an organic reunion like this that just happens to be caught on camera, and those staged/pre-planned reunion spectacles where the returning soldier surprises his/her kids/family in some way. The latter has been shown to have negative psychological consequences, especially on children,…