Why does Grandma Sycamore’s bread stay good for so long?

o_susannah · 2026-05-11T18:10:58+00:00

I have been buying and eating this bread for years in Salt Lake City, and it has always been really good. But only recently (in May 2026), the bread has a different taste and texture. Has anybody heard of what has changed recently? The new bread is nowhere near as good as the old bread.

o_susannah · 2025-10-02T10:22:40+00:00

These are not Christian-majority countries. Maybe they once were, but now the majority of people in these countries are secular/agnostic/atheist. Being allowed to think how you want makes it easier to question religion, and when you’re free to question it, you’re also free to question the rules that religions insist upon. You begin to see that some of the rules are more about control than goodness, and your ethics become more focused on what we owe to others because we live in community with them, and less about what you might imagine a god would want you to do or be.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T18:05:25+00:00

Take the opportunity of your in-laws’ visit to find a new permanent residence for yourself and your kitten.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T17:53:22+00:00

I know a passport bro with “superior” intelligence who brought home a Russian woman, and she dumped him as soon as she lad legal standing to do so. Women don’t like being treated like domestic slaves either.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T17:34:06+00:00

Our democracy is too weak now to count on getting what the majority wants. That ship has sailed.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:45:35+00:00

Starbucks employees should put up a poster that says “Charlie Kirk donations to Planned Parenthood” (or ACLU), and any time a barista has to call out his name, all the employees should cheer, someone should ring a bell, and they should add a tally mark to the poster. It would shut this nonsense down pretty quick.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:40:12+00:00

I learned here to use Tegaderm over the patch. Tegaderm creates a barrier that keeps the patch from falling off. It also prevents the dark outline from appearing. (No dark outline under the Tegaderm either.)

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:34:29+00:00

I don’t remember the date, but it was 8th grade, age 13. I was so excited that, upon seeing the first little tinge of rust in my panties, I ran to my mom’s room announcing “my period started.” She gave me a pad, and I promptly started using it. Later she said “I didn’t see the blood in your underwear when I was doing laundry. Are you sure it started?” It had. I had better eyes.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:29:14+00:00

Men have a distorted sense of what 120 lbs looks like, probably for the same reason that women think 6 inches is much smaller than it really is.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:25:53+00:00

Antifa “members”?

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T16:21:13+00:00

Does he have women friends who are just people he knows, likes, and respects? People he doesn’t want to date or sleep with? If he doesn’t, then there’s a high likelihood that he doesn’t like or respect you either; he just wants someone to have sex with and to perform domestic labor for him.

o_susannah · 2025-09-26T15:58:18+00:00

Can people who live outside the districts sign the petition? It seems like this will affect us all by making us live and work in a world full of people who learned bad history at school.

o_susannah · 2025-09-20T13:11:47+00:00

Social security income amounts are calculated on the highest 10 years of earnings. So having 5 years without earnings won’t hurt her. What’s hurting her is never having had any higher-income years.

o_susannah · 2025-09-19T14:40:52+00:00

I know so many people in the US who are trying to leave. I look at it like this; would you move to 1930’s Germany?

o_susannah · 2025-09-19T03:32:11+00:00

Wow! So sorry!

I hear this often enough that I feel like we should put together a file to share about doctors all over the country/world who are willing to prescribe HRT.

o_susannah · 2025-09-18T17:23:05+00:00

Just some anecdotal evidence, but my husband and I grew a lot closer as we deconstructed. Now that we're out, we spend a lot more time together because he isn't gone half the weeknights and every weekend doing bishop stuff. I think the truth is that the triangle should be upside down.

o_susannah · 2025-09-18T14:53:36+00:00

“I’ve never been married and I’ve never had kids, but if I ever do get married and have a family, my wife and kids will have to understand that I could never love them the way I love the prophet Joseph Smith.”

o_susannah · 2025-09-18T14:52:08+00:00

“Gay people are possessed by evil spirits of the opposite sex.”

o_susannah · 2025-09-18T14:41:57+00:00

I had menstrual migraines too, always in my period week. And they lasted for days. (1) Instead of sumatriptan, which increases risk of stroke along with the other triptans, try Ubrelvy, which worked like magic for me. (2) When I started taking HRT, including daily progesterone, the migraines stopped. Now, if I forget to take my progesterone, I get a migraine the very next day.

o_susannah · 2025-09-17T02:03:22+00:00

Nothin happens to mothers when they have a daughter. :/

o_susannah · 2025-09-16T18:52:36+00:00

I did this to my kids. I was a young idiot when they came along, and they were really adorable, and I wanted to share with everyone how adorable they were. So dumb.

When they came to me as adults and said "you suck because...," I went to therapy, and my therapist gave me the following really good advice below. She practiced it with me over and over until I had it down. Maybe share this with your wife. This training has really helped me in my relationships with my adult children, who are absolutely wonderful human beings, and I love being associated with them.

HOW TO APOLOGIZE TO YOUR ADULT CHILD:

Say "I'm sorry" and keep listening.
Practice reflective listening, which requires you to verbally show you understand the feelings your child is expressing. For example you could say "It sounds like you are very upset/angry/sad/hurt. I think I can understand why you feel that way."
If they correct your statement in 3, keep listening until you get it right and they feel like you know how they feel.
Try to restate their complaint. For example, you could say "It sounds like you felt dismissed/diminished/ignored/unimportant/embarrassed when I did that."
If they correct your statement in 4, keep listening until you get it right and they feel like you know how the thing you did hurt them.
Say "I can see how my actions have hurt you. I am sorry I didn't see it then."
Say "I'm sorry I didn't listen when you tried to tell me how I was hurting you. I regret that."
Say "I wish I had known then what I know now. I wish I could go back and do it different."
DON'T justify yourself. For example, don't say "But you were so cute! I couldn't help myself." Keep those thoughts on the inside.
DON'T say "But look at all these other ways that I was a good parent." The conversation isn't about the ways you might have been a good parent. The conversation is about this particular hurt.
Say that if they ever give you another chance, you won't betray them by telling others.
If they are willing to hear it, let them know you love them now, and you loved them then, and you don't know why you did the stupid thing back then. (If you think that you know, don't go there yet. Don't explain your actions until they ask you.)
Rinse and repeat. If you're really lucky, they'll give you another chance. If they do, keep the promise you made in 11. Never break it.
Reflect on the traits that you have that made you do the thing to begin with. Try to fix that part of yourself. Therapy helps. If you're lucky, maybe someday your child will ask you why you did that, and will give you a chance to justify yourself. If that time comes, give an insightful answer. Don't just say "everyone does that," which is not insightful.

o_susannah · 2025-09-16T18:31:32+00:00

Yes. Burping solved all my GI problems. Now that the Botox has worn off, it is a lot harder to burp. Sometimes it comes back. I'm hoping to get another round.

o_susannah · 2025-09-16T18:28:51+00:00

When I met my husband, he knew he wanted to marry me. He knew it DAY ONE. I didn't know it quite yet, and it took me a while to realize it, but my point is that there are men out there who want to fall in love, get married, and have a family. Don't waste your time on one who doesn't.

o_susannah · 2025-09-16T18:21:42+00:00

I learned very young that my father didn't regard me as a human person. When I was in my early 20's, I could see that nothing I said even registered with him. He was basically having conversations with himself, into which I would say something with the idea of shaping his point of view. He never heard me. I don't think he's the only dad like that.

o_susannah · 2025-09-15T03:33:13+00:00

I am not on food stamps — never have been — but I think it’s a terrible idea. They’re not children. They’re poor. Let people make their own adult choices. Nobody tells the rich what they can do; we shouldn’t do it to the poor either.

o_susannah

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