So much to unpack.

You can make baby food, yeah. However, at the end of a long day, which started at 5:30 AM, and after the kid goes to bed (let’s say 7:30 PM), the last thing you want to do during your precious free time is spend an hour of that time making baby food.

Lifehack: Most toddler nutrition advice is crap.  As long as you aren’t feeding your kid McDonalds 3x/day they will be fine.

I’m no historian, but I believe that’s the whole concept behind a “wake.”

Yes! I don’t know that it necessarily fucked me up but it definitely stuck with me! In the winter I’ll often announce to my husband that “I’m cold” in that same weird halting way that the frozen little boy ghost did. 

“I’m cold” -- the one with the little ghost boy who froze to death in the woods.

The Tale of the Ghastly Grinner the one with the scary Joker/Clown monstrosity... 

I’m an addiction counselor, and most of my clients have kids. My department has an entire program for pregnant and parenting women as well.

My mom became addicted when I was 5. The crazy thing is, I didn’t know she was addicted until my late 20s. She was always able to get enough from legit suppliers (health care system), so never had to turn to other sources. Which just meant she was at the clinic/hospital all the time. As kids, we all just thought she…

In his defense, young Will Smith was only in one little fight before his mom got scared

this is a story from last year and she linked to the text version

I’d bet it will either be Ken Jennings or, if they want to modernize the show, Louis Virtel.

It’s always sad when this happens, but this time is just super sad, because this is Alex Trebek. Alex Trebek. Like, Alex Trebek isn’t just a game show host, he’s a cultural icon. He pretty much is Jeopardy!— he’s hosted the show since it was revived in 1984. That’s thirty-five years. He’s hosted Jeopardy for my entire…

Well, he’ll be memorialized on quiz shows as “Name the President of the United States who was also had a TV ‘reality’ show.”

Ancient Chinese[1] curse: “May you live in interesting times.”

Bill Barr shows up in the first paragraph! That’s really telling. Is the coverup worse than the crime?

Christ, even their fights are boring.

His father stabbed another man to death while waiting in line to see Santa (yes, with kids in tow), so “alright” for him may not be the same as for the rest of us. 

Sometimes the most effective trailers provide as little information as possible: