Yes! I love our CSA. It is all volunteer-run, the membership subsidizes shares for families on limited incomes, and we partner with a couple of other organizations so we can get almost anything— meat, bread, grains, beans, eggs, milk, yogurt, cheese, pickles, mustard, etc. We just joined a CSF for fish and so far that…

I don't even like sweet potatoes, so you can imagine the trouble we have at my house. My husband makes soups and`freezes them and then eats them for breakfast and who knows what else. I have a recipe for sweet potato cupcakes, but unfortunately they don't actually use that many sweet potatoes.

The NY Times article I read on the study quoted another scientist saying that he was surprised that Nature published it. So, I don't know...

Yeah, the dog poop situation in Paris...ugh. It is actually pretty bad in my neighborhood here in NY too, to the point where a local elementary school had a contest for the students to create PSA announcements encouraging people to pick up after their dogs. (How depressing is that for the kids? That was their…

It seems like there are two separate issues getting muddled together here. If allergies are the problem, then it doesn't matter how well-trained the dog is. And if behavior is the problem, then it seems like the crate rule should solve it. I mean, the rules would have to be enforced, which may be too much to ask, but…

Maybe the white woman was berating her for not bringing enough to share with everybody.

Isn't this what paying your dues and getting to the top of your field is about? Being able to dictate your working conditions, to some extent? Brad Pitt is free to refuse to do sex scenes, and directors are free not to cast him. I highly doubt he needs to find a new job because 1) aren't they filthy rich? and 2) he's…

Is there anything remotely Williamsburg-like about Astoria?

Yes! My old roommates and I used to plan a meal, smoke a little, then cook and eat. The meal always ended up being more elaborate than we originally planned because one of us in particular got really creative high. It was so fun and we didn't really do much snacking while high because we were already full from an…

I credit my dreams with getting me out of a bad marriage. I was having horribly vivid dreams of him cheating on me (which he had done several years before this happened). I'd wake up sobbing and he'd tell me everything was ok. Once when I woke up he wasn't there, and before I could even think about what I was doing I…

Dude, my first marriage actually degenerated to that level. Whenever it came time to cook and I would ask him to help out, he wasn't hungry. Then, after I put all the effort in, suddenly he was hungry, so he'd come down to eat. Eventually I started telling him I was cooking for one because I was sick of doing…

I am always shocked when I read articles on here about housekeeping— so many women put up with insane amounts of crap from their male partners. Hell, I'm a SAHM and my husband does at least 50% of the housework (let me be fair to him: he does more). I'm not even going to go into specifics because I don't want to…

Oh, I agree! Just relating a time I was that person, and of course it was too early to be talking about the pregnancy so they didn't know why. The fact that I had the food was not at all a commentary on their cooking— the female half of the couple is Korean and makes beautiful, time-consuming, delicious Korean food…

I once ate something (I think half a granola bar?) when I showed up at someone's house for a meal and found that food prep had just started and I was starving. I apologized and said that I was starving and did happily eat everything they served later, but I could tell they were taken aback. But I was in the first…

We got our wedding cake from Momofuku Milk Bar— they don't ice the sides of their cakes! It was cool looking because you could see all of the filling inside the layers, delicious, and relatively inexpensive for a wedding cake in NYC, I guess because they don't have to charge for all of the labor involved in slathering…

We're having a first birthday party, but it is going to be an adult party with amazing food and alcoholic drinks. But around lunchtime instead of at night, my son is welcome to attend, and everybody else better be ready to hang out with him while I enjoy the weather and cocktails.

If everything else about your lives was totally ready for a baby (careers, finances, living situation, etc.), then maybe I could understand the selfish thing. But, it really sounds like you both need time career- and finances-wise too. Honestly, it sounds like waiting is in the best interests of whatever kids you end…

I'm commenting again now that I see your second post.

I am so, so sorry you are in this situation. I am pro-choice and had an abortion myself, but I really do not think that your husband should pressure you to have an abortion you do not want to have. I think that could be devastating to you and to your marriage. I do not regret my abortion at all (I am not one of those…

I was sure my entire life that I didn't want kids. At 28 I changed my mind— it was like a switch was flipped, and one day I was sure I wanted them. It may happen to you, or it may not. I think the hard thing is being uncertain about what you want to do.