Another reactive airway here. Laryngospasm truly sucks. Dying of pertussis in my 50s is not on my bucket list, so you bet I keep those vaccinations up to date.

Ugh. In the early 1950s, my in-laws lost a close friend in his 20s who came down with polio and died a couple of days later. My husband and I were born in 1956, a year after the Salk vaccine came out, and were members of the first cohort of kids whose parents didn't have to worry about their children winding up in an…

TDaP = tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis. The "acellular" part just describes the formulation of the pertussis component of the vaccine.

Maybe douche with almond milk and blueberries? 'Cause I hear Gwyneth likes those things too.

Something about that image of the steam iron is going to give me giggle fits all night. And I don't even have a uterus any more!

I'll stick with chocolate bunnies, thanks.

Prediction: It will come out that this sociopath has been a long-time abuser of the women and children in his life.

Chris Pratt rocks, but when I become dictator of the world, I'll forbid any remakes of any films that any living person is old enough to have seen in its original theater run. Violators will be forced to star in a crossover remake of Zardoz and Capricorn One. Direct to video. And then be locked up and sentenced to…

Poor dim Louie. Everyone's casting aspersions on his asparagus.

Vandenburg was the guy who dated the woman for a while, led her to consider herself his girlfriend, and then drugged her so that he and his friends could gang-rape her, right?

The scary thing is that ham and cream cheese doesn't sound that bad to me. I mean, not that GOOD, but not that bad either.

Weight isn't always a superior measure of fitness. I've been regularly swimming miles for the past year, interspersed with long walks and treadmill/elliptical/rowing machine workouts. My weight has barely changed, but I've gone from a size 14-16 to 12. I've just started to track my body fat with calipers. It's still…

May have to try this. I love hot sauces.

The hell with Jamie Dornan. John Oliver had me when he wiggled his spectacles.

I'm in that situation too. I live in a part of the country that has had no winter yet to speak of, even though we should. My mother is right in the path of the storm.

It would be kind of fun if they showed the films in different theaters within the complex and you could pick and choose. I'm not much of a movie buff, but this is the first year since 1973(!) that I've actually seen more than two of the nominees, and I actually intend to see more of them. So far:

No pictures of me after this disaster, fortunately, but I once used Inebrya Rosso Ciliegio color mask on my hair. The stuff was labeled as a temporary color-boosting conditioner. I don't know whether they were just messing with me or if the label should have included a warning about using it in previously…

I actually have similar highlights, but they're much, much more subtle. And I never saw anyone with them in the 90s!

Didn't Benedict Cumberbatch once tell an interviewer that, while he appreciated the fan support, he found the term "Cumberbitches" disturbing?

I have a set of kitchen tablespoons that I checked for volume with actual measuring spoons. Each of those "tablespoons" holds exactly one teaspoon!