I'm pregnant with a girl, my first child, and I read a random statistic the other day that made me so irrationally sad, sad to the point of tears. The statistic was: as women age, their closest confidants become their adult daughters, whereas when men age, their closest confidants remain their wives. It made me so…

Texting is awesome for relaying brief messages, and horrible for everything else. I refuse to have a conversation via text. I'm pretty sure it actually raises my blood pressure when texting involves more than 2 or 3 back and forth texts between me and another person, because I hate it so much. If more than 10-15…

I was 21 because it took around 2+ years for my college boyfriend to feel ready. Catholic school really did a number on him.

My husband is a fourth year associate at a BigLaw fancy firm, and when he does interviews he's not supposed to give call backs to people with less than a 3.5 grade point average. I managed to get a job at a tiny boutique firm with a much lower GPA though. Either way, it's tough out there. I was unemployed for over…

Romney plummeting on intrade. Dang, should have invested in some Obama...

I'm so annoyed at how much the media is presenting this race like the President is losing. That's what depresses me. He's not losing. He's never been losing, not even at Romney's highest peaks. Romney has NEVER had a lead in Ohio, Wisconsin, or Nevada, and those are the only three (toss up) states that the…

Ugh, my miscarriage really did seem to last forever. When I went in for my first appointment at 7 weeks, I found out the embryo had died. The doctor gave me 3 options - a D&C, the pill (but the side effects she described sounded unpleasant), or wait and let it happen naturally. I opted to let it all happen…

I'm not saying the 2 situations are exactly the same, I'm saying generally, people don't care all that much about the welfare and suffering of insects, and it's silly to do so only when the bugs are pretty.

Or if you've ever hired an exterminator! Which I have done, even though I don't consume animals. Sheesh, butterflies are pretty, but they're still bugs.

So, my question is, when can you safely assume that kids know the truth? I accidentally spoiled it for some kids when I was around that age because I honestly had no idea that some of my peers still believed; I had asked my parents for the truth when I was around 6, so by the time I was 9 or 10 I just assumed the jig…

Nothing wrong with doing both! A girl I knew in high school had the normal college experience and graduated from Notre Dame. Then 3 years after graduation, she moved to Paris to study bread and pastry making. Hey, why not?

I kept pet rats throughout my teens and early 20s before I lived somewhere that allowed dogs. They were fun, clean, smart, and sociable. The males seemed more cuddly than females, but they also fought with each other more than females did when I kept them in pairs. Overall, they were good pets, but I hated cleaning…

But the first amendment does indeed protect speech that vilifies someone's race, religion, or creed, etc under current U.S. law. That's why the Supreme Court ruled last year that the Westboro assholes are allowed to picket funerals.

I keep going back to the Cobie Smulders wedding article, to the part where it says co-stars Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan were there. What about Josh and Jason?? Are they not also friends? I get way too invested in whether actors who play friends on TV are actually close in real life. I always want them…

That happened to me too! I randomly got a sample of baby formula in the mail around the time that would have been my due date. I'm pregnant again, so I wonder what I'll get this time....

I'm a straight woman and most of my closest friends are straight men. A few are single, but most are attached/married and I'm often also friends with their wives. I don't feel sexual chemistry with people very often. One of the reasons my husband stood out when I met him was that there was a spark that doesn't often…

True, but you are not a child, and you do not have an adult that is responsible for molding you into a properly functioning member of society and making sure you know how to follow rules. I actually don't particularly believe in spanking, but I don't believe the argument that: "you're not allowed to do this to adults…

My husband and I both took the bar back in 2009, but we're planning on moving to a state where you can't waive in, unfortunately. I took the new state's bar back in February and my husband is taking it this week. Glad I managed to pass and don't have to take it again with him!

The Apartment! I've seen it so many times. Also, a few days after my Dad died, I had insomnia. Some time around 3 am, I wandered into the living room and turned on the TV and The Apartment was just starting on Cinemax. It was really random and almost spooky. It would have been one thing if it were Turner Classic…

Yup! And of course he couldn't let it go, because gosh darn it, he was RIGHT!!