Aug 29, 2011 · I know we have some prison staff here, so hopefully someone knows about this. Prisoners in maximum security facilities, like ADX Florence, can send and receive letters and packages. Are these letters (both the ones the prisoners send, and the ones they receive from people on the outside) opened and inspected? And are the letters actually read by the guards? Do prisoners retain some rights to ...

Jun 9, 2014 · When one hears the name Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall for the first time, one can pretty reasonably assume that the person in question is about as male and English as a person can be. Similarly, when you hear first the names Lyudmila Pavlichenko or Valentina Tereshkova*, you can probably guess at their gender and ethnicity with a fair degree of accuracy. Other names, for example Nick Park, are ...

May 23, 2011 · I feel a lot of empathy for the OP, having been in a similar situation… twice. After my first marriage, I was entirely, completely, totally gunshy. There were lots of issues during the marriage, and afterwards, he took our children out of state, without my permission. Because of my emotional and financial position at the time, there was damn-all I …

Jul 20, 2011 · Lacunae_Matata: I don’t really recall all of the ins and outs (it was a bit of a stressful time) but a relevant anecdote: When my sister died (1998, laws may have changed since,) my mother’s former husband made it clear that he planned to attend the funeral, which was held at a local funeral home (private property.)

Apr 16, 2010 · When you visit relatives out of town or when out of town relatives visit you, is it the custom in your family for everyone to stay at someone’s house or to get a hotel? I, personally, want to get a hotel most of the time. I’m simply more comfortable there. And while I can tolerate a short visit in my house, it’s not my first choice. I don’t think the rest of my family would see it …

May 17, 2012 · Apparently Dottie ate at least one and probably two nylon knee highs sometime between Saturday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon. Found part of one hanging out of her backside. She has been/seems perfectly OK: eating, drinking, pooping, energetic, happy, normal behavior. Consulted a vet tech on live chat and gave her a little olive oil; the tech also confirmed the signs of blockage that I’d ...

Lacunae_Matata March 9, 2012, 9:01pm 19. I’ve eaten at two locations a couple of times, and it’s ...

Jul 21, 2011 · I’m slowly losing my dinner plates one by one. They get a crack that starts on the edge, almost in the middle of the plate, that slowly creeps across the plate until it eventually snaps in two. I’ve even had a couple matching sandwich plates do the same. Yesterday we were eating watermelon and discovered juice dripping through the crack and wetting my dads pants. It’s already about half ...

Mar 17, 2009 · Everytime I see handwritten documents from the 18th century they appear to have such fine penmanship. Think of the Declaration of Independence. Why was penmanship so good? I remember as a child, before computers were as prevelant, that we still had to learn longhand, but the forms for it were much simpler (and less attractive) than the older longhand. And how can someone, today, learn how to ...