ye v asked:


My father left my mother and brother at the age of 3 years old. I also found that he was abusive to my then teenage mother (16 years old). Now that he is a disable crack-addict and now lives in the same city, he wants me to visit him. Growing up his where abouts were a mystery to me and my brother, so we really never had and father-figure in our lives. My brother does keep in touch with him but I go on as always; as if he still does not exist. My brother thinks I am being cold, but how can I feel for a stranger. I do have a fatherly lust out from childhood memory, he got me to love broccoli, to love Cheech and Chong, I love the rides in the back of his 10-speed and he taugh me to roller disco ( hey,, it was the ‘70). To this day I still roll bounce. I still do believe to this day that his HERB GARDEN actually had real organic herbs. My brother laughs at me and tells me at least it was municiple;)

Melissa R asked:


I am finishing my last year of my undergrad. My husband is military (Navy), and he is on his third deployment. We have three young children, 5, 3, and 2. I currently go to school full-time and so we have a nanny during the day to be with the kids while I’m in class. I was planning to begin law school full-time next year, but I recently spent some time at home with the kids since the nanny was in a car wreck, and I found my home is the cleanest it’s been in weeks, I’ve planted seeds for an organic vegetable garden, my kids are happier and calmer, and I no longer feel like I’m on the verge of an anxiety attack. I think I’d like to slow my pace, change my application to part-time evening law student, and stay home with our children during the day. Should I feel guilty for this?! I don’t want my husband to think I’m mooching or making him support me (I have been receiving MGI Bill benefits so long as I have been enrolled full-time in college), although I doubt he would say anything of that nature. I will still receive MGI Bill benefits while going part-time, but it will be significantly less and upon passing the bar I don’t want to go work at a hectic firm but rather provide legal counsel or assist at a non-profit. Does this make me a bad wife? I only want to be a great mother and wife….I guess I’m more old-fashioned than I thought!

Taylor B asked:


Alright, so my sister is visiting us from accross the country and she’s staying for about two weeks and she’s been here for about a week and so far all she talks about is religious stuff (I won’t be TOO specific about that though). And I started talking about an iPhone vs…(whatever). And my sister starts asking me how I would prepare for end times and what kind of natural things I would use and eat instead of eating things such as fast food or even going to the store and buying things. And that we’re becoming a spoined world (not just one nation but the whole world) because we rely on computers and technology and are forgetting how to do things way old fashioned such as farming and growing an organic garden and raising your own animals to eat and that the Bible predicts that that would happen. And my mom started getting into it as well, saying that they aren’t the only ones ‘preparing’…because so many people she knows are stocking up food/medicines as well. Also, they mentioned that our previous president Bush and Obama are part of the end times predictions and that the whole world is going into a depression and that we need to start preparing for the world to end. And they’re basically laying all of it out that we’re putting all these animals in our backyard (well, it’s 5 acres but still) and we’re going to be growing corn and such. But in history it has been soo much worse, what about during the TWO world wars we’ve had. And we’ve gone through a depression so much worse back in the 1920’s-1930’s. They are really trying to suck me into all of this, and while I am sort of religious (not extremely) but I don’t believe I should stop what I’m doing and live like it’s the year 1300 or something. What should I do? Ignore? I don’t want to make them think that I think they are crazy or wrong…I just don’t want to listen to it anymore. And don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with preserving or preparing, but I think it’s a little over the edge.

I should also mention that they listen to talk radio…and of course talk radio show hosts are buisness people and will get you to believe anything usually. I agree with it….it’s just basically turing into a cult it seems like. Is it just me, or would anyone else feel the same?