I generally share your feelings about people who don’t vaccinate, but I wouldn’t paint gluten-free people with the same broad strokes. Although many people don’t believe in the idea of non-celiac gluten sensitivity, there have recently been persuasive studies (including double-blind, placebo-controlled studies)…

That’s awful. I had a very hard time with breastfeeding for the first several weeks, to the point that I’d dread nursing, and then I’d cry and hate myself for dreading it. At the time, I didn’t know anyone else who’d had trouble breastfeeding, and I felt like a failure — I thought it was supposed to be this easy,…

Yes, all of this! My Asian forebears (including my mom) toted their babies around on their backs while they went about their work, and they co-slept because of space issues and/or because it was easier not having to get up out of bed in the night to nurse the baby. And so on. It may have led to happy babies — but…

With my daughter, I actually did a lot of the kinds of things that attachment-parenting types recommend — mostly because it was convenient (e.g., using a baby sling or Ergo rather than a stroller made it easier to get up and down subway stairs), or because it was similar to the kind of customs that my (Asian…

Same. And I’m embarrassed to say that the Dr. Sears position on vaccines genuinely confused and worried me when I was an expecting/new mom and obsessing over everything. I had been given a copy of The Baby Book as a baby-care reference, and I thought that Dr. Sears was a mainstream, widely respected pediatric…

Every time I see the picture of President Obama leaning down to let the little boy touch his hair, I almost cry. That picture says so much. It says everything about why — putting aside politics, or what he did or didn’t accomplish — it meant so much to so many people to have this man as our President.

This story makes me so happy. Your niece is awesome.

I want to hear what you’re saying, because you’re absolutely correct, but all I can do is look at those two cute kittens on the bottom — the way they are sprawled out. LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE LEGS.

That was my reaction too! Some of the creepiest villains ever from that show. But if they rid us of Donald Trump, or at least take his voice, then I’m mostly okay with them.

This is a magically funny post and full of truth — especially “because raisins and farts are both horrible things to be surprised by?”

This is a really thoughtful reply, and I appreciate it. I also think your explanation is probably right.

Public high school in a midwestern city that’s routinely cited as an example of a poverty-stricken, failed urban center. I remember going to a friend’s house and thinking they must be rich because they had air conditioning. But I probably didn’t know any actual affluent people in real life until I got a summer job…

Most people go through a period, either in high school or college, where they (i) read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; (ii) mistakenly assume that they themselves are the Howard Roark/John Galt characters in their worlds; and (iii) act like self-righteous assholes for a while. Then they grow up, recognize the…

I’m embarrassed by how much I love this story (and all your posts, really).

Plus — and I know this isn’t the point — he was elected president of Harvard Law Review. It’s an extremely competitive election process which basically involves the editors being locked in a big room for many hours debating and arguing (sometimes to the point of tears) until they have agreed on a president. The…

My daughter’s 4th-grade teacher, all this past year, would repeatedly say to her class some variation of the following: “Girls are so competitive with each other — that’s why we can’t have a woman president.” “When boys get mad they get over it, but girls never forgive. That’s why we’ve never had a woman…

This is all just terrifying. I just scheduled surgery (to repair an umbilical hernia) for a few months from now, and this is one of several reasons I’m wondering if I should just cancel it. I’ve received conflicting advice on whether the surgery is necessary — one doctor said I could potentially just live with the…

Every sentence of this is perfect.

I’m now reading through his Tumblr posts, and they are seriously brilliant. This one about Orlando is heartbreaking and beautiful and hopeful and tragic all at once. His post on Prince is perfect. And I really love this:

There are no words for how cute this photo is.