If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

In no state in America is it legal for a landlord to demand their tenants lead a "healthy lifestyle" in order to rent property.

If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

We are all going to die, sometimes even in the middle of a lease.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.