Wine is a great host gift—if you're visiting the parents of your date, wine is a low-cost-but-still-thoughtful gift. I have also given wine to friends who let me stay at their place, etc, but I wouldn't give it to a new boyfriend/girlfriend unless they expressed an interest in trying funky wines, beers or liquors.

About three months in, my boyfriend was going to buy me flowers for my birthday, but the shops were closed, so he found a coloring sheet with my favorite flower and colored it, cut it out, and put it in a really sweet card. Then he bought me a toy giraffe because I had expressed a love of tiny things that are normally…

Oh, I loved it. Give A Little is adorable, and I was at the concert where they pulled a much luckier Holly on stage and Taylor danced with her.

This pleases me to no end. :D

I learned from my friend that it's dependent on the color of the earlobes in some cases, too.

When I was a kid, my grandfather told me that brown eggs came from brown chickens. I believed this until I was around 20 and met a friend in college who actually owned chickens.

If you don't know where to look locally, volunteer for a national organization like RAINN. Their online hotline is staffed by crisis counselors from around the country. They will train you, and the time commitment can be managed to fit your schedule and availability. It is all run virtually, and you log in to their…

I do want children...but not for another 3-5 years, which makes paragard perfect.

It's not, really. I mean, it can happen. There is a small chance, and it usually happens within the first couple of cycles, but it is sucha minute percentage, and only a slightly greater chance in women who have not been pregnant. My first gyno tried to scare me with that info, but my second, much better gyno took a…

I just got mine last month! I love it, but but I am battling the early side effects. Two weeks after insertion, I had a week of bad cramping that led into an early period. Before my period started, I actually went to the doctor for fear that something was seriously wrong, but he soothed my fears and told me that I was…

When I called my rapist the next day to ask him if we had sex and if he used a condom, I told him, flat out, that I didn't want to have sex with anyone that night (and I had told him that before he raped me, too). His excuse was, "sometimes it just happens."

I just switched from HBC to a copper IUD for just this reason. The pill was great when I wasn't having sex regularly, but once I met the boy, it was hard not to think that the pill was doing something to my ladybits—especially because when I first met him, I was taking a break from the pill and he could sneeze and I…

Actually, interviews point that they had two plans for the potential mother. The first (first season SPOILERS) was Victoria, who was going to be the mother if the show was canceled. When it was bought for more seasons, they were able to use their second choice, who has been hinted at, but only seen briefly. So, yeah,…

Thackery Binx! He solves crime now.

A high school friend of mine is a dancer. Her abs are AMAZING. I am so very, very jealous of her incredible body.

Wow. This is a terribly judgy article. I feel a little insulted and attacked because I met an amazing guy on OKC, we're dating, he plays Magic and he's quite good (not Jon Finkel good, but *I* am impressed). Maybe I'm too geeky myself to get this article, but...really? You wrote the guy off because he is a world…

That was my thought, too. I'd have gone with a shorter dress—she looks a little bit swallowed up, but still really cute.

My boyfriend and I are bronies. It's terrible. And fantastic. We devoured the series, and now I have ponies in my office and on my blog: [bit.ly]

This couple is adorable and they look so happy. I love their Harry Potter wedding. Boo on Glamour. Boo.

You're right. A large part of the NY/NJ Italian community has roots in southern Italy. So, let me rephrase my original comment to "I thought it was Italian-Americans everywhere!"