@Hippopotame asks you in a very dignified manner to please promote her comments.: I did a lot of walking—mostly due to being reliant on public transportation and having an active retail job. If your partner could come with you on the walks it is a perfect chance to talk about your future lives. Or when you feel like…

I am obese and for both of my pregnancies I was able to keep my weight gain under 15 lbs and with both I lost more than 25 after delivery.

@badmutha: And we have a pretty neat nerd hip hop/ poetry slamming vibe going on. And non-nerdy internationalista thing.

Washington is the NERDOPOLIS. Where else do you send class presidents, military types, soil scientists, economists, linguists, journalists, do-gooders and lawyers rest of the country? You never know who you are going to meet. And the locally born population is a combination of life-long civil servants, their kids…

@Jeangenie:

1. A can of Kronenberg from my mother-in-law

@Triana Orpheus: When you are here, bets are off. Follow the particular person's preference, but the assumption is that the surname is first in Chinese names.

Did anyone notice that he said "President Jin Tao" and not "President Hu" which would be proper?

@maude_flanders: Cake-niffing orphans in the orphan shack!!! #sarahpalinoprah

@Khuluna: Much better! Thank you.

@labeled: Is that Cornel West? at 305?

Dude—I lived in the projects. The housing was actually nice and some people did a great job of keeping their homes nice. There were afterschool activities for the kids. But it still sucked.

I can see him as an Obamapanda more than Oba Mao. Especially that cross-country skiing one.

@SarahMC: Totally get it. Racism isn't history AT ALL. I really am troubled by how people don't see it in themselves.

@Jeangenie: Also—ask a 5th or 6th grader—when they talk racism, usually slavery comes up. It is so shocking that it is usually focused on more.

@SarahMC: Because when I was growing up and we studied slavery I had discussions about whether or not white people should feel guilty or responsible. It was a similar story with the Holocaust. My father's family is German and Christian so we talked about the nature of racial guilt. I think slavery comes up a lot…

@MizJenkins: Exactamente. And lose the fear of talking to people who don't look exactly like themselves.

@stoprobbers: You don't have to FEEL guilt—but you cannot be blind to your advantage. My family was not even here until after WWI, so I don't have to feel guilty for slavery. But I do have to realize that I cannot ignore that people with skin like mine didn't have to be afraid to walk into certain towns, don't have…

@WashingMyHair: I totally agree that being in a diverse school is important. This can backfire if the school is broken down into white (middle & upper middle class) and minority (not so much). I feel really lucky to live in a NoVA suburb that is probably majority minority but fairly well off (townhomes, don't…

When I was growing up in the 70s in upstate NY, a young white woman came to my parents for support. She had a biracial baby who was fairly dark complected. We went out to play while the adults talked (we were all around 3-6). The little boy told us he wanted to be white like his mommy. We went to work covering him…