Becky Palapala on the profanity of childbirth.

What is a platform, and does it include breast augmentation?

Can there be situations in which your underpants make things go very, very wrong? Don Mitchell wrestles with a tighty-whitey problem that involves Russians in Speedos, white supremacy, locker-room misunderstandings, shirts with serial numbers, teflon tape, and a Honda 50 step-through.

My mother says that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. She says that beauty is only skin deep. My mother says that I’m gorgeous. She says that I’m adorable. That I’m not fat, no, she swears, it’s the truth. My mother says I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. [...]

My brain feels like one of those toys you have to push to make little bright objects bounce around in a clear dome over a loud grating noise.  Or a bingo dispenser, lots of stuff cluttering around and occasionally something comes out.  Or a garbage can at a rich person’s house or in a knick-knack [...]