"It's like being at a wedding with my two uncles." Oh, James. That was the most enjoyable 18 minutes I've spent in a long time, so double thank you!

Thank you!!

WHAT IS THIS FROM?!? I mean, *ahem* sorry for screaming - what is this from?

Dear Mara Wilson: last week we found our son's porn-oriented browser history, and my response was just like yours, except I told the boys that porn is to real sex what The Avengers is to really fighting crime.

I swear by Cover Girl Fruit Spritzer glosses. Yes, I use higher end foundation and eye shadow, but a good cheap gloss is a thing of beauty.

Looks more like she IS an autumn, and stole spring/summer colours, though.

I am SO EXCITED to see the majoring-in-visual-arts thesis project you've prepared, the one that makes carrying a giant mattress around for months on end look lazy, and makes engaging the imaginations and intellects of thousands of people ("will her rapist be expelled?" "how will the campus react?") look dull!! Is it…

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was an indirect dig about Shiloh not conforming to the "little girl" gender role this woman expects.

In the context of discussing the wedding with acquaintances (I'm with my family overseas for my husband's work, so the other spouses are like colleagues, of a sort, to me), someone remarked that considering how gorgeous the parents are, Shiloh's kind of plain. I said I didn't think she was, and that she actually looks…

That all sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I actively do not want to ever be pregnant or give birth again. I don't mind if I see delivery, but then I have a morbid interest in graphic medical stuff and always have had. I completely get that it's not for everyone. And I think the reduced libido thing is perfectly…

Wait, does your opening sentence translate as "I'm going to make a provocative statement and then bail, as one should when one says something one considers to be smart but unpopular"? Because that's ... not what wisdom is. Anyway, you have your opinion and everyone else has theirs. Just because you don't find…

I fielded THE DUMBEST questions from the men I worked with while I was pregnant with my first. "So ... you're, like, three months pregnant now?" "Five." "Oh, so - two more months to go?"

My mother's advice: "it hurts, but it's really just one day of your life and then you have a baby to show for it."

I watched one in high school biology. It was very ... granola, too.

When my brother was about 4, we went south across the border (from Canada to the US) for some reason or other. This was in the early 80s, and we were from a small town, so I don't think us kids had ever had Mexican food before. The waitress brought out tortilla chips and two dishes of salsa, telling my parents that…

I am almost jumping up and down in anticipation of next week's episode.

Haven't even read the review yet, I just had to say how glad I am to see it up here!!!

I have so many stories!! Okay, um. I had visited the Foz do Iguacu with a group of exchange students, and after the group tour was over 4 of us had planned to go east to Curitiba, meet up with another exchange student who lived there, and then see what happened for a week or so. I was 18, and the other 3 - 2 girls and…

I figured it was old people who persist in thinking it's short for "lots of love."

I completely agree. I truly love this idea, but not as an "anyone, anywhere, anytime" kinda thing.