With regard to toxic family members: if you DO decide to cut them off, or even if you just make a point of establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries, be prepared for the biggest pushback to come not from them, but from other family members who have been enabling the toxic behavior…
The person in #20 needs to go to Wal-Mart and grab a bunch of cheap full-length wall-mounted mirrors and then prop them up in every window facing that neighbor's house every night. Make it their problem instead.
I used to run book signings at a Barnes and Noble and I can tell you that as of 2013, Newt Gingrich's ringtone was "Dancing Queen" by ABBA. Also when we were in the back getting ready to start he went on a long monologue about how he loved "seeing all the trees around here changing…
My understanding (from listening to agents and publishers at literary cons) is that the social media platform applies mostly to proposals for nonfiction books, and not fiction, where you're expected to have a finished manuscript before querying.
My uncle was a firefighter who responded to lots of emergency calls on the road and he drilled the "never put your feet on the dashboard" thing into my and all my cousins' heads from a young age. He'd seen way too many relatively minor crashes that everyone should have been able to…
@lazboy It's so disturbing to me how often I glance at the car next to me and see the driver looking at their phone and not at the road. Sometimes it feels like more people are on their phones while driving than not.
It was the same, if not worse, in the 90's. Kate Winslet in Titanic was SO validating to 16-year-old me. I was five-foot-nothing with big boobs, a narrow waist, and rounded hips, and no Juniors department of any store ever had anything that looked right on me. I remember sitting in…
Someone I used to be friends with once posted a photo to Facebook of her son, who was maybe ten or eleven and absolutely lived for gymnastics, sobbing his eyes out in the doctor's office because he'd just found out his foot injury meant his gymnastics season was over. Just... WHY?…
Our first baby was SO easy. Happy all the time, rarely cried, a good eater, sleeping through the night by eight weeks.
Our second baby is the reason we only have two children.
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