I saw one for spinach recently, which had me worried. I eat a lot of spinach.

I have actually been eating pasteurized soft cheeses on occasion. My cravings for cheese haven't been as bad as for lox though.

I don't have a desire to drink alcohol because I had horrible nausea for the first 4.5 months of pregnancy and even just the smell of alcohol put me off, and I still haven't regained a taste for it. But, 38 weeks into this pregnancy, I would do almost anything for some lox on a bagel. The thing that annoys me is,…

I don't buy that we just have to put up with it. I'm 29, and no man has ever made a comment about my unshaved legs or other flaws. I've been with my husband a few years, so I haven't had much of a sample size in awhile, but unless the dating scene has drastically changed since I was 24, I just find it hard to…

Seriously. I'm about to be 30, and the guys I've been with have all just been happy that there's a naked lady to look at. Even the overeducated ones.

When I first heard about this story, my first thought was, well it's a good thing the mother is white because if she were also black, you wouldn't be able to read about this story without dozens of internet commenters popping up out of the woodwork to theorize that she was overreacting, that there was a…

I like the brown sugar cinnamon ones! Nobody else ever seems to like them best though.

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and took my first birthing type class like 3 weeks ago. I haven't done any lamaze or anything - but neither did my mother-in-law for any of her kids and she managed to get through three different types of births (one unmedicated, one epidural, one c-section) without ever having taken any kind of…

When the performances are dialed up to 9 in every other scene, and not just when a loved one is shot, it is a bit distracting. But again, that's sort of the nature of the show. Half of the scenes on the show involve some extreme emotional revelation from someone's past, whether true or false, that sends someone into…

Although, to be fair, Scandal is one of the only television dramas I watch - I mostly stick to comedies. Maybe that's just the style nowadays...

No, they should show emotions, but all the actors on that show seem to contort their eyebrows in exaggerated ways to show how upset they are, to the point where they look like emoticons instead of real people. The style of acting on Scandal is pretty over the top, which is totally fine if the goal is to make flashy…

I really like Kerry Washington, but her performance, and everyone else's on that show, definitely strikes me as coming from the overwrought, shaky voice, show your emotions with your eyebrows school of acting.

Okay, okay. I won't call Scandal a guilty pleasure. I'll call it that show I watch, with incredibly preposterous and outlandish plot lines, that showcases distractingly bad, over the top performances from the actors (which I'll blame the directors and writing for, since a lot of those people have been perfectly good…

I definitely felt that way after living in New York for five years. Now I feel that way after living in DC for seven years. I mean, it's clean, so it has that going for it, but I hate it. It's as expensive as New York, and there are so many douche bags! Terrible weather! Incredibly inept metro! The tourists here…

I know many people have difficulty adopting internationally due to country restrictions: for example you can't adopt from China if you have been treated for depression, or have a physical disability, or have a BMI above 40, or if you aren't a straight married couple.

I start out writing a sequence outline. I create a title, kind of like a chapter title on a DVD menu, for each group of related scenes. Then, underneath the chapter heading, I write a sentence or two detailing the action of each scene in the sequence. Once I've finished the outline, I just start writing the…

I will likely have a one month old infant when they return. I imagine myself watching in 10-15 minute increments while I pump.

My go-to food blog is Smitten Kitchen, and her latest recipe post seems designed for holiday party type gatherings. This is just cheese and bread, but it seems fancier somehow. http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2012/12/fromage-fort/

I think you must tell your step-father. It's understandable that you don't want to hurt your mother or tear your family apart further, but like you said, she's a grown woman. She's made the decision to let this man into her life to ruin her family, and she has to live with the consequences. Perhaps if your…

Weirdly, hearing about others' miscarriages makes me a bit more reluctant to talk about mine. So many people talk about what an emotional and difficult experience it was for them. I was a bit sad, and definitely disappointed. When it happened twice in a row, I felt frustrated. But I didn't feel anything like…