Author: Issendai

One of those WTF moments I must share. On a board about step-parenting, someone complained that their 15-year-old stepdaughter never flushed the toilet after she took a dump,

There’s no way to write the perfect no-contact letter. When people break contact with a parent, whether for a month or a year or a lifetime, they try

I’m totally, completely, utterly addicted to Sunless Sea. Which is–well, remember Fallen London? (If not, why haven’t you played it? Go! Go!) Remember how it teases you with

Back in my LiveJournal days, we said, “Five things makes a post.” If you didn’t have enough to say on any one topic to make a post, you

It’s been a while since I regaled you with tales of Haitian onomastic nerdery, but wait no longer–I have a fine new source of names, rich and glowing

In the wake of the discussion with Hurting Parent, yesterday’s and today’s Dr. Phil episodes are oddly appropriate. The basic outline is there: The well-behaved 18-year-old who leaves home

One of the things that perpetually boggles me is how members of estranged parents’ forums say their children have informed them that the relationship is over and they

The second of the pages about how estranged parents react to their children’s reasons for estrangement is up now: Estranged Parents Confront Their Children’s Reasons. In this example,

This weekend is the Wars of the Roses, a camping event where (hundreds? thousands? IDEK) a zillion members of the Society for Creative Anachronism descend upon a campsite

In a discussion of an estranged parents’ thread, a user named fusionconfusion said something so insightful and beautifully put that I had to share it: It strikes me it must