I can't really speak to their other essays as I'm not that familiar with either Tracie/Tracy's work, but overall I think Jezebel has a snappy sarcasm that runs through most of the articles; This one struck me as more mild and actually affirming than negative. More yay, celebrate thine frump than boo-hiss, frumpiness…

Our son was an oopsie. But I honestly don't think we would have gotten around to having a baby if it hadn't been foisted upon us. There's always going to be some criteria to be met or goal to accomplish. I'm pretty sure that once some arbitrary finish line was crossed that I'd find another one. I struggle with this in…

You have plenty of time. I gave birth to a beautiful, healthy baby girl at age 40. And I lived the hell out of my life before she came along. Get some of your wild out first! :-)

The beauty of "unplanned miracles" is that they take that kind of agony away. I mean, there they are, in your house, crying. We were so busy coping, we couldn't ruminate.

As a person who planned neither child, and who made it work quite well, I must tell you there is no time that you will EVER have life set for kids. Our kids were both the result of birth control failure.

Fuck yeah to your last sentence! Having my kids, as cliche as it sounds, made me less of a dick. Sometimes, I am hateful and resentful and just mean about people. I don't want to raise hateful, resentful and mean people, so I check that shit. I have two boys that I am trying to raise into good men that will treat…

You said it much more eloquently than I ever could. I was just thinking that yes, the world is shitty and scary, but I want to one day raise a child who sees that and wants to change it - like I do. Not trying to place some kind of aggressive mantel of CHANGE THE WORLD on my future kid's shoulders, but I mean I want…

Your post is pretty much why I had kids. I know the world is fucked up, so I am trying to raise people that will un-fuck it. Or not fuck it up more. My kids don't have to cure cancer or end world hunger or whatnot. I just want them to be good to other folks. Remember that some don't have as much as they have and that…

This is precisely what my grandmother said to me: it's never perfect and if you wait for it to be, you'll find yourself missing out on a hell of a lot of good.

Beautiful writing. My opinion is that there is never going to be a perfect time to have a baby. Not in your personal life, and certainly not in the world as a whole. So if you want to do it, go ahead.

Pregnancy hormones do weird things to me. I'll find guys hot when I'm pregnant that I don't think much of any time else. David Bowie, for example. Normally he's way too skinny and androgynous looking for my tastes.

I swear to you as an honest to God, born and bred Australian - THIS. IS. NOT. A. THING.
I'm feeling it's typical Australian piss take (pardon the pun), where some funny individuals tell people 'yeah we all do this here', but no one does. Like when you get warned about 'drop-bears'. Ask an Australian what a drop bear…

Doesn't every team need a batboy?

That'll be the tagline for 2022 Qatar.

You call this a World Cup? There's only one World Cup and it's going off next year in England. Seriously. People fight wars over soccer World Cup qualifiers. Meanwhile, the Rugby World Cup gives us a nation healing its racial wounds.

Try our Carmenere! That's the good Chilean stuff.

See, I think this article kind of touches on what bothers me about this "trend", but from a slightly different angle. It is sort of like these people have the luxury of getting rid of their stuff because deep down they know that if they ever truly need a thing they got rid of, they can jut buy it again. Or they can…

It would be great if you (and other commenters) put an IOS or Android (or dare I say, Windows Phone) tag around the apps. Looking at the list so far, the vast majority are IOS. With the majority of the market belonging to Android, the very least you could do is let folks know what is what so we don't waste our time…

I was a 29 year old SAHM with a 1.5 year old. Friends started my freshman year of college and that always brings back that time for me. I still watch reruns all the time.