I made it to the 30 second mark. Proud of myself.

Reading the article and the comments makes me oddly thankful for menopause. Plus I really hate broccoli even more now.

NO to the mixer to mash the potatoes. It's too easy to over mix and end up with a gluey mess that will make you cry as you scrape it into the garbage. Mash by hand or use a ricer. I make twice baked potatoes with tons of butter, sour cream, some mascarpone, salt and pepper, chopped chives and a dusting of paprika.…

I never get tired of this clip. Still lusting after the frozen-in-time Rick Rossovich, 27 years later. I made the mistake of googling him for a current photo, so I had to come back here and watch the clip a couple more times.

I live on Long Island and have a ton of bunnies in my backyard. They love eating the tops off all of my flowers and they dig up the bulbs. My cats sit in the windows and go nuts watching them. The oldest kitty is an outdoor cat that adopted us many years ago. He's too old and fat to chase them anymore, so I've been…

That can be said of many things, but as a parent, I would have made myself insane if I had questioned every (seemingly) innocuous choice regarding my kids. I just don't see the occasional lick of ice cream as a problem. My kids had a varied and healthy diet and are still only occasional sweets eaters. The youngest…

Let go of your pearls before you hurt yourself. This is a really simple situation: Cute baby, probably less than a teaspoon of ice cream actually making it INTO his/her mouth and a hella good time being had by all. Including me. I watched it twice because laughing babies are the best.

The kitty's expression is clear: "I'm not dumb enough to walk on all this cold, wet crap. What's your excuse?"

I was at the Shea Stadium show in 2003 (? I think it was The Rising tour) when they did "41 Shots". The cops that were freaking everywhere around the stadium walked out. I believe that the NYPD pulled their escorts in retaliation as well.

April will mark my 50th and 51st shows. I first heard him on a crappy bootleg cassette from a gig at The Stone Pony in 1973 (yes, I'm old) and I was hooked. Haven't missed a tour since. So much of his music strikes a chord in my soul, and even the stuff I don't love, I respect and still listen to.

I did that get up and fuss thing with my first. I'd put him back to bed and then I would be WIDE AWAKE. It sucked.

You're welcome. Setting yourself up for *your* comfort makes the whole shebang easier to cope with. Your baby won't care what portacrib you get, but anything you can do to smooth your path will make all the hard stuff a little bit easier. Congrats and enjoy!

Get a bassinet that is the same height as your bed. By the time I had my third baby, I decided that I wasn't getting out of the damn bed at night unless there was a fire. When she woke up to nurse (every 90 minutes for the first 4 weeks...ugh), all I had to do was lean over and grab her. I kept diapers and wipes on a…

When I was pregnant with my second, who was due in October, I spent most of the summer on the beach, naked. A few people would stop and tell me that I shouldn't be in the sun or I would cook my baby. They were serious. I mean, oy.

I agree, they are definitely beautiful illustrations! I used the word crude to describe the rawness and simple lines. I assure you that I meant it in an admiring way.

I was 21 when this book was published and it was a huge influence on how I viewed sex and sexuality as an adult. As crude as the illustrations were, there was such a loving element in every pencil line, such a natural sensuality, it became the bar that I measured all of my sexual relationships against. Of course,…

Yes. Ouidad. Ouidad. Ouidad. My daughters have wavy hair and won't use anything else.

Ouidad all the way for me. I get my curls cut twice a year at the NY salon (only twice because, holy shit, it's expensive). My hair is baby fine and I swear by the Curl Quencher shampoo and conditioner. The Climate Control gel is amazing. My hair is never frizzy. Ever.

Between the tears and the rage at this SOB that raped HIS DAUGHTER, I'm disgusted that the benefit of having comfort while a CHILD has to testify about being viciously violated by someone who should protect her with his LIFE, instead of using and abusing her, is questioned, makes my heart hurt. Yes, I know that is a…

"I just wanted someone to give me a hug and tell me that I did the best I could and it wasn't a reflection of me as a mother. Instead I just got judged for being lazy and got my self confidence as a woman and as a mother shattered. "