I've lived in cities that have had a really good food options...and some that completely didn't. The city I live in right now is weird—there are some great farmers markets, but not a single grocery store downtown. It's funny that you thought it wasn't great at carrying local products—I actually went to the WF in my…

If you really want to be together, don't let the distance scare you. Most of friends have done it, and the two serious relationships I had both involved distance (and actually, it seems nearly everyone I work with right now is in long-distance relationships/marriages—this is unfortunately very common in academia). If…

You could just e-mail/post something on facebook without going into the details of why its important to you. The people that know you better will already know, and you won't have to feel anxious about overloading people or feel like your asking for pity.

I do prefer Whole Foods for some things. It wouldn't be where I'd regularly go to shop (way too expensive), but I like occasionally trips there to supplement my usual grocery shopping with certain things from there that I'm not able to elsewhere. Same thing with Trader Joes—I don't regularly shop there, but…

I get this is a rant, and I understand your frustrated about the prospect of gentrification endangering local businesses. However, I think your reaction is rather harsh. I would hate to think that my neighbors were judging me, and concluding I was a shitty stupid person, based on the bags I came back with one day.…

Uggh, I've dealt with fleas before, and I thought it was horrid—but right now I'd rather have the fleas.

Ergh. I'm so sorry. I've been through something similar, and I know how much it hurts. I'm from a similar ethnic background, had the same situation in which my family completely disapproved... but after time, came to accept him. After three years, we were at the point where we had been talking rings, wedding…

I just found out this week that my apartment has bedbugs :( :( :( This is such a nightmare. I've been getting bitten to death and breaking out in hives, but for a long while I thought it was a combination of mosquito bites and allergies.

Don't worry, it's early—when did you start? And sometimes it takes time. The first month or two of college I hung out with people that I really didn't fit all that well with... and then I became friends with some other people in my dorm, but friendships definitely changed a bit... it wasn't until the VERY end of…

Ok the discussion is not showing up for me at all... what is going on?

I'm so impressed that you read Le Morte D' Arthur as a child. I love Arthurian myth, so a high school teacher recommended it to me...almost a couple decades later, I still haven't made it very far in it. I WANT to read it, and periodically will start reading it or parts of it, but for some reason I just haven't been…

I loved that book! I got it at a book fair and read it when it was probably a bit young compared to most of what I was reading... but there's something so magical about it! I was just thinking the other day when I was exploring an old estate with small little cottages/outbuildings.

Oh wow, I had almost forgotten about Zilpha Keatley Snyder, but I used to love her! I haven't read The Changeling.

For me, it was A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which I read first. My sister read Wrinkle in Time from the library, and then bought A Wind in the Door and ASTP, and when I found a book in her shelves with a flying horse... I had to read it.
I've read that book so many times the cover is falling off. And I've made it by…

I don't think its accurate to blame the Crusades on the Muslims. I don't think its fair to blame the Crusades solely on Catholics either—both sides played a part in escalating and continuing those conflicts. But the Catholic Church did take advantage of those conflicts to continue building and asserting their power.…

I have trouble seeing how you can have faith that the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church given the amount of things, historically, that the Church has done... where was the Holy Spirit's guidance during the Crusades? The Inquisition? During the entire Middle Ages when popes and cardinals were amassing wealth, and…

The argument that the gnostic gospels were written significantly later, or are less valid because they are pseudoepigraphical, is not completely accurate. Although many of them were written later, there are some that were approximately contemporaneous with some of the canonical gospels. The Gospel of Thomas has been…

I went through something similar... was superskinny in elementary school, but then in junior high hit puberty and very quickly went from being the tiniest kid in the class to having an adult-sized, curvy body. For the rest of junior high and high school, I thought I was fat, which led to extreme dieting and exercise…

Uggh sorry to hear that! Stupid ex! I've been through that before and it was hell. But on the plus side—you may have lost the guy, but you have the puppy, which is more important!

No idea how to kick the sugar addiction... but I'm in the same boat as you! Started a new job, and just realized I've been pigging out/stress-eating. I'm hoping it will level out once I get more settled and adjusted... What I'm trying to do is make sure I eat breakfast, and try not to make sure I don't skip meals...…