I had risotto with pumpkin and kangaroo, at a restaurant in one of the Great Ocean Road towns in South Australia. Loved it.

No one is neutral on candy corn. People either love it or hate it. I personally detest the stuff, but then again I like salmiakki, so I'm probably, as we nerds say, a few SDs off the mean.

No diet. I told the bridal shop to not take the dress in too much, because I wasn't planning to change my diet one bit between the fittings and the wedding. And I didn't, despite some nerve-wracking work and family issues in addition to the wedding.

1915 just called and it wants its attitude back.

I really loved him in "Kill Your Darlings". I don't really know what the real Allen Ginsberg was like, but Daniel Radcliffe played him as a character who was as intense as he was eccentric.

It's been a couple of years since I last flew Delta, but I've always liked them. They had the best snacks (admittedly that's a pretty low bar), and their seats were the most comfortable despite the dated upholstery. Or maybe because of the dated upholstery.

The first thought that came to my mind: "Wow, there are still five airlines left?"

My husband and I both adore beets (no, I am not making this up — I even loved them when I was four.) But I used to find borscht a bit on the boring side until I adapted a beet-soup recipe from one of Isa Chandra Moskowitz's vegan cookbooks. I get a bunch of beets, peel the roots, cube them (hey, no math jokes!), chop…

I thought the same thing. The racism is pretty shitty, but I also can't imagine how anyone can be a big-city tour guide and not become a raging misanthrope after the first month or so.

I've always hated being told to hug and kiss people, which is a very different thing from spontaneously hugging or kissing someone. When I was a kid, my well-meaning mother used to pressure me to show affection to several adult relatives who were obviously uncomfortable with giving or receiving affection to anyone of…

And that's a good point, because one exposed dog is just anecdotal.

We could have learned a lot about the disease — and about pet safety in an Ebola outbreak — by sparing, observing, and testing the dog. I agree that ideally they should have quarantined the dog, perhaps for several months, since no one really knows whether pets can contract or harbor the disease. That would, however,…

Hoping this doesn't happen, for at least three reasons. First, edibles are a great option for people who can't tolerate smoke. Second: Despite some early glitches, the doses of THC in commercial edibles can be standardized; that's not true of home cooking, plus unsupervised kids can get into the special brownies…

Lemme guess — they're not going to ban guns because some people leave them unattended around children, right?

None. That was the problem. I should have taken about 5 years off. Instead, I went to college in a field that should have guaranteed me a good job — but I was so bored, angry, and emotionally unstable at that age that it was really a waste of time and money. I graduated with passable grades and was briefly…

I hate the use of the word "dreams" in that context. By definition, a dream is something that happens to you while you're unconscious, is not under your control, and almost never makes sense. "Follow your ambition" or "Follow your interests" is a much better way to phrase it (and causes much less trouble).

Well, it was neither stupid nor ill-intentioned advice, but it was definitely wrong. It would have to be all the people who told me that I shouldn't take time off in order to get a job and collect my thoughts before starting college. Unfortunately, I followed that advice. I'm edging towards retirement age and still…

We somehow managed it despite being exhausted. We'd been together for over three years and cohabiting for one, so there was really no pressure either way.

The Ebola virus is not known to survive for more than a few hours on surfaces.

It's looking good on my 2011 MacBook Air.