After spending several years reading largely YA, I'd like to read some grown-up secondary world fantasy novels. Persnickety tastes below the fold.
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posted by PhoBWanKenobi
on Apr 30, 2013 -
58 answers
I am wondering if I should continue a friendship with a woman I met on our old job almost 20 years ago. Some background: we're both in our 40's, married, and have children. We live in different cities, my family moved from our hometown 14 years ago. I work outside the home, she is a sahm since she had her first child. We have corresponded mostly by e-mail, facebook, text message over the years. When we both worked we would literally "talk" via e-mail the entire day. We have been there for each other through some really serious stuff, i.e. marital problems, deaths, pregnancies, illnesses.
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posted by getyourlife
on Apr 27, 2013 -
21 answers
For her bat mitzvah, I would like to give my niece a book that is age appropriate but will also have lasting value. Suggestions?
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posted by janey47
on Apr 8, 2013 -
30 answers
I've recently finally gotten really fit and in shape, after spending most of my 27 years...not doing that. I've been looking for something local and athletic to do, both for fun and for fitness, but since I haven't played sports since I was 12 or so, my skills are lacking. However, all the local instruction is oriented towards youth, so I turn to you folk for aid. How can an sports newb adult learn how to play?
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posted by Punkey
on Mar 20, 2013 -
25 answers
Simply put, if one goes shopping for such things in traditional shops, it's shocking the markup %. Does the hive have any recommendations for sites with broad variety and competitive pricing?
posted by ecollie
on Mar 14, 2013 -
11 answers
My sister (married, one child) and I (married, no kids) want to plan a joint family vacation. We do not want our parents (divorced, both remarried) to come. Our mom is extremely sensitive/dramatic, and we are hoping to avoid a major meltdown from her. Help?
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posted by anonymous
on Jan 26, 2013 -
16 answers
I have an adult website so I can't submit articles to normal article directories and get a link back for SEO. Is there a list of adult article directories where I can submit articles or even short stories and include a link in the article or bio?
posted by Bacillus
on Jan 15, 2013 -
1 answer
Interesting gifts for my family - give me some inexpensive gift ideas for weird, funny, creative, or out of the ordinary gifts. Bonus if I can order them online and get them on time for Xmas, still.
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posted by catatethebird
on Dec 18, 2012 -
18 answers
What are the best stories that feature young adults coming of age/coming to terms with life's imperfect realities? By "young adults" I mean "adults who are young," probably roughly 19-30, not "young people who are becoming adults." This maturing process can be central to the work or peripheral. One example: "The Great Gatsby." Short stories, novels, nonfiction, film, television and any other genre are all welcome.
posted by croutonsupafreak
on Oct 30, 2012 -
29 answers
Seeking your ideas for free or inexpensive crafts for adults that can be completed within 2-3 hours with very little instruction required. Striving for a fun process and a pleasing end product. No worthless, ugly or junky, please.
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on Oct 24, 2012 -
34 answers
Four-year-olds can do it. Grannies can do it. My mom can do it. I could do it myself thirty years ago, but it isn't true that you never forget. How can I re-learn to ride a bike?
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posted by Daily Alice
on Oct 14, 2012 -
36 answers
How do I help my boyfriend, who I think has adult separation anxiety disorder? How do I deal with his neediness without feeling unhappy or guilty?
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posted by DianaV
on Oct 5, 2012 -
20 answers
Adult swimming beginners: what motivated you to learn how to swim? What techniques did you find useful in swimming lessons and what things made you uncomfortable?
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posted by lazy robot
on Oct 3, 2012 -
13 answers
Browser say what? Trying to find some learning material (online or books) for a 35 yo adult.
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posted by timpanogos
on Sep 20, 2012 -
3 answers
Help me be a grown-up. I am turning 25 soon, and I'm beginning to realize that I don't really enjoy living like an irresponsible kid anymore!
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posted by showbiz_liz
on Aug 29, 2012 -
37 answers
Help me come up with a loooong list of newly-available opportunities conferred upon one's 18th birthday in the US beyond the obvious biggies. My niece is celebrating her 18th birthday with me, wants to take advantage of her new adult status, and I want to present her with a ludicrously long and goofy list of "celebratory options."
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posted by desuetude
on Aug 4, 2012 -
21 answers
Help find a Boston or Manhattan psychiatrist who takes 1199 insurance and can see a new patient soon. My dear friend is in serious distress.
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posted by jcrcarter
on Jul 20, 2012 -
4 answers
What can I do to cope with relationship (adult) separation anxiety/missing someone strongly? It happens after just one day without seeing my partner. I don't want to get clingy or go through so much ickiness so I need some coping ideas!
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posted by hungry hippo
on Jun 13, 2012 -
11 answers
I need names of United States banks that offer merchant accounts for adult web businesses.
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posted by anonymous
on May 9, 2012 -
2 answers
I want to find a/some adult pacifiers. Except, I want them relatively inexpensive. Google-fu failing!
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posted by Jacen
on Apr 21, 2012 -
3 answers
I need some advice on how to communicate better with my dad and hopefully improve our relationship.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 15, 2012 -
11 answers
My moms want me to devote my life to writing. I'm 30 and want to explore life. How do I get them off my back?
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posted by tamagogirl
on Apr 6, 2012 -
31 answers
In my mid-20s. Am just now really getting into the dating scene. Help me figure out how not to deal with this like a teenager.
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 18, 2012 -
9 answers
I'm an adult child of alcoholics, and I've just recently come to realize I actually do exhibit many of the classic behaviors of one. Now that I have that figured out, how do I retrain myself to NOT do those things?
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posted by thrasher
on Mar 2, 2012 -
43 answers
The guy I am dating has unusual tendencies, is this a part of his ADD? Or his quirkiness? How should I approach the subject?
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posted by Chelsaroo650
on Feb 13, 2012 -
75 answers
What are some gifts for pre-schoolers that will make them feel like grown-ups? I'm thinking along the lines of fancy snap change-purse for a girl, for example (what are those called anyway? the ones with a metal snap), and other things that children don't need but LOVE to have.
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posted by midnightmoonlight
on Dec 13, 2011 -
36 answers
I remember a Young Adult Chapter book that I am trying to remember the name of.
The premise of the book was that you could achieve perfection by wearing a pickle around your neck, because nothing would be as embarrassing as that so you could do anything.
There was a pamphlet that suggested that a boy do this but the pamphlet stressed that you couldn't read ahead in the pamphlet.
Anyone?
posted by Infernarl
on Oct 24, 2011 -
8 answers
Where can I go to get scared this week within a day's drive of Boston (and not be surrounded by screaming kids)?
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posted by msbrauer
on Oct 23, 2011 -
7 answers
Are there helpful online resources for adults who want to learn swimming strokes? We can both swim, but we'd like to develop proper form.
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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly
on Sep 21, 2011 -
4 answers
My family just spent a week with my wife's brother and his family. Six kids, four adults, one week in their house. It was for the most part uneventful. In fact, it was great. We're now from the big city, they're from the suburbs in the South. We ate BBQ, fished, shot guns, and drank beer, all things we aren't able to do where we normally live. Then, the last night, the brother got violent. Started picking a fight that we couldn't stop, accusing us of mocking him and his family and wife. There was NO way to diffuse it. I can't tell you how much we tried to be solicitous. He ended up hitting my wife on the arm and shoving me, we ran out of the house in the middle of the night grabbing clothes and kids and stayed in a hotel. It's been a few days and my wife and I are now at her mom's house 30 minutes away - she doesn't seem to know what happened. Do we tell her? Do we report the incident to the police? How do I set parameters around ever seeing each other again (such as to go see a counselor)? This doesn't seem to be a normal pattern for him, but something in his relationship with his sister really, really set him off. I don't want to be unforgiving - I just can't predict if that firestorm could appear again and honestly that night i feared for my life and the lives of my wife and kids - so how do we move on from here?
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posted by anonymous
on Sep 14, 2011 -
40 answers
Any recommendations for a school for an adult woman over 50 in Italy this July? Language and or art and or music and or cooking. Florence? elsewhere? Michelangelo school in Florence?
posted by Yayita
on Jun 7, 2011 -
5 answers
How do we have a satisfying long-distance relationships and visits, parent and in-law version?
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posted by Elsie
on May 11, 2011 -
19 answers
Looking for suggestions for an affordable, romantic, but not TOO romantic, weekend staycation or trip around NYC.
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posted by anonymous
on Apr 5, 2011 -
1 answer
As a 38 year old guy with no significant experience AT ALL of playing sports, it is very hard to see how I might start to get into them. Please help.
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posted by Hartham's Hugging Robots
on Mar 20, 2011 -
28 answers
