I think I felt that I needed to leave her room, and then the presence followed me anyway. I didn't feel fearful and I was also telling myself that I was just seeing things since it was the middle of the night.

I have always seen various unexplainable things throughout my life. Sometimes I sense a presence, or get a bad feeling. I used to see a tall, dark man and a little girl with blond pigtails in a yellow dress in my parent's home. I'm honestly not sure what I believe. One of my friends advised me to always live in newer…

Love this! I worked out daily throughout my pregnancy (cardio, yoga, lifting weights, Body Pump classes) and I got a lot of side-eye at the gym. It's all about listening to our own individual bodies - if you feel good, keep doing it!

Last week, I pulled into Starbucks to park and go inside to order (drive-thru takes too long IMO). The drive-thru line was so long it was blocking the parking lot, so when it moved I started inching forward to get to a space. The woman next to me I think thought I was trying to cut, so she swerved toward me and…

I used to work for my university's financial aid office. I would answer phones from parents and students and we received quite a few stupid questions, mostly from angry people, but my favorite went as follows:

My husband and I met at a party at his house right before our sophomore year of college. I was there because my best friend from high school's roommate (they attended a different college) went to high school with my husband and they were in town for this big before school party. Make sense? Anyway, I was majoring in…

I hate when other feminists judge my choices like this. I changed my last name when I got married. Why? Because the name I had prior to my husband's name was my father's name, and my father is a terrible human being who disowned me. I *chose* to take my husband's name (even though he didn't care either way) and I like…

Haha, you are me! I told most of my close friends right away but there are some friends I did not tell, so I have been avoiding most bars and the local winery for the last month. At one event I had to attend, I (secretly) ordered a glass of club soda and if anyone asked I said it was a vodka soda. I'm only 8 weeks so…

I am 8 weeks pregnant and am going through the same thing as you. I miss wine TERRIBLY. I have been drinking some sparkling white grape juice, which feels kind of similar but not really. I haven't had any yet, but as soon as I see the OB and hear the heartbeat I think I will probably have 1-2 glasses per week.

One of my friends once told me that all women regret getting abortions. Maybe not today, but sometime in the future, they will regret it. I didn't even know how to respond to that.

Ah, see I tend to hover around 150 lbs and I'm a size 6 (at 5'7'') and everyone always tells me how "thin" I am. So I guess I just didn't realize it was considered "average."

Not only is she not fat, but is 150 lbs really the average for women in the UK and the US? I feel like that's really low, for some reason. On most body types, doesn't that mean a US size 6 or 8? I thought a size 12 was average for women now?

What bothers me is not so much the pyramid scheme (I think that's obvious to pretty much everyone, including Mary Kay employees), but the lack of education on makeup and skincare. Maybe it's just been my experiences, but handing people products with no real knowledge of how they work on different types of skin is very…

I have toxoplasmosis but it primarily presents itself in my eyes, leaving scar tissue and causing bleeding that results in blindness (mainly in my right eye). They believe that my mother contracted it while she was pregnant and it was passed to me in the womb. My mother did not come into contact with cats while she…

I grew up an evangelical Christian and now identify as atheist. The problem that I have with most religions is that while they appear to exist as something comforting for people, they actually force people to see the world in black and white. It is so important for them to spread their religion to others that it…

I'm feeling sensitive about religion right now after my cousin posted on facebook that he will no longer play Words with Friends because the gamemakers support the GLBTQ community. I know better than to engage in facebook wars but I had to. After posting one quote (from Gandhi about how Christians are not very…

What kinds of suggestions do you have for similar but good erotica to read? I'm of the "I like being familiar with what everyone keeps talking about" school of thought so I'm reading the trilogy now, though it's really just terrible.

Can someone give an example of being in a relationship in which you really love someone but it doesn't work? I just don't understand why the couple in the trailer would break up if they're best friends and still enjoy spending time together and also claim to still love each other? Confusing.

I've honestly tried to stop using my GPS. Ever since it started malfunctioning and will now only speak in Africaans language, I'm trying to learn how to read a map, so I type in locations into my iPhone and then try to understand the map rather than read the step-by-step directions.

Nine West...a long time ago. :-/ But they do often come out with cute, unique and still dressy flats!