I looked at your feed and your suggestion of what people should say is what I always say when I call, unless I am calling to mention something I appreciate my elected official having done. But we’re not going to tone-police our way to victory here.

Person you are related to through a lifelong bond ≠ person you choose to form a temporary bond with to achieve an end

Gendered slur unmoored from past behavior ≠ Metaphorical description of observed behavior

Hope that helps

Can you not see how these are two totally different kinds of questions?

Time visits so you go when major sporting events are on tv. Game changer (pun semi-intended)

Here is a very real thing I learned from a long career in publishing. Rejection isn’t feedback and shouldn’t be treated as such. Good stuff doesn’t get published. Crap does. Vice versa. It’s capricious and chaotic.

Will I be telling this story every time Garfield (cat or president) comes up until I die? Yes.

Oh man. As the mom of a kid with food allergies and set eating patterns (being poisoned by food a bunch will do this), I feel your pain and frustration.

Narrowly avoided wine coming out my nose from the laugh/snort this produced

if you put AIPAC in a room with Hamas, Hezbollah, and JStreet and you give AIPAC a gun with two bullets they're shooting JStreet twice

The place where I do my weekly shop is on -3. It’s street level of the complex. Parking lots at -1 and -2. Level 0 is also street level but a different street. Building into the side of a super steep hill hits different.

Me too, man. Me too.

For me it took me from anxiety and sleep disturbances to a full-blown panic disorder with flashbacks that took several years to wrestle under control. And it wasn’t therapy that did it. It was, thank God for them, a good psychiatrist and the right combo of meds.

And in some portion of people with PTSD, psychodynamic therapy can absolutely reactivate the trauma and eff up your brain and your life.

Used FAM to up my chances of getting pregnant when we were growing our family. Using it to not get pregnant seems, I don’t know, insane?