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I was raised by a parade of strong women on tv: Mary Richards, Murphy Brown, Lorelai Gilmore, Margaret Houlihan, Roz Doyle. They taught me that you don't have to grow up, get married young, start having babies, and quit your job to become an angry and resentful SAHM, which is the… Read More

Willow and Tara, the Buffy lesbians. I was watching The L Word at the same time I was into Buffy, and I did not relate to anyone on The L Word. But Willow and Tara were more like me -- sensitive, thoughtful, no agenda other than learning witchcraft from books (I had a wicca phase… Read More

There are a lot of little moments, but the big one was taking care of my mom when her mother died. I was upset, but she was more upset, so I had to put my feelings aside and be her emotional support. I also helped a lot with the memorial service because my mom was too upset to make… Read More

Read Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse 5 when you are in high school or college, and then read them again when you're close to 40. You will be amazed to discover so much about yourself, how you've changed and matured, and what you are ready to take on in your next 40 years.

all of them. But you really should read Catcher in the Rye and Slaughterhouse 5 before you turn 22.

There wasn't a lot of good new shows this year. I think the best new show I watched was The Good Place. Will and Grace and Discovery were also very strong.

The fashion. BF always shows pix of extreme stupid fashion on celebrities, but normal people dressed differently. The jeans were so much more comfortable. I really miss boot cut and boyfriend jeans. I also miss normcore, like plain button down shirts. I am SO SICK of work shirts that… Read More

Cinderella, A Twist in Time. No one has seen this movie except five year olds and me, but the king is fucking hilarious. AT one point, he's worried Prince Charming is sick so he starts dispensing 14th century-era medicine advice. Charming walks away as the king yells "We'll have you… Read More

I'm from the suburbs outside Philadelphia. When I was a child in the 80s, my brother and his boyscout friends all believed in a "Mr. Hobo" who lived in the woods adjacent to our suburban housing development. We had to be careful and quiet when we walked through the part of the woods… Read More

Children should be kept to child island, a sovereign nation that caters to families. People who don't want children will get things done while the parents are parenting, or not. Now we can have nice things, like quiet restaurants and airplanes.