I recommend Macy's. Check out the JM Collection plus sized stuff. It's what I wear to teach physics.

If you can't think, don't try to think. Just take the night off. The exam study material will be there tomorrow.

My grandmother, who would have been 99 this month, once walked up to my date for a wedding and demanded a hug. He awkwardly acquiesced, and she gave him one of the most lascivious hugs possible for a petite nonagenarian to give a man in his thirties.

I advise you also to inventory the ways you could be fulfilled if you never managed to have children. I'm not saying that you should give up on your dream of children, but that it's often worthwhile to come to a place where you admit that you'd probably be okay (if a little sad) if you never had children. The…

I just bought a blue dress to get married in. We're doing something small and fun, and I thought this dress looked fun. $100 at Macy's.

This is my approach, to the letter! (I am also finishing up my PhD in physics.)

I have never been to a bakery where they refused to give me a PAPER BAG OR BOX FOR THE CARRYING OF BAKED GOODS.

Other people's children are a blessing. You get to spoil them and play with them and buy them obnoxious gifts and do fun things with them. You can give them back when they turn into air raid sirens or poop fountains.

I appreciate you being Debbie Downer. It's important to remember these things because they're true. I'm actually not quite as nonchalant as I seem. A former coworker of mine worked for seven years to adopt a child. I know it's hard. It's really hard.

I am nonetheless fairly unconcerned. If it happens that my future husband and I can grow our own big-headed baby, then that's awesome. If we have to shop around for a used one, we'll try that too. (He thinks we should maybe get a brown one so that when people make inappropriate comments he can tell them how rude they…

After I announced my engagement, my sister took the opportunity the first time the two of us were together to inquire, "When are you having babies?"

Thanks. I feel like I'm going crazy over something I want to be low stress, and it's good to vent.

Please help. I just got engaged and I do not want a "real" wedding. Neither does my spouse-to-be.

BCBS of Louisiana somehow covers my NuvaRing for $0. Maybe it's the particular plan that you're on?

My boyfriend is very introverted, but I knew things were going to work out when he said to me, "I always have words for you."

I thought that they'd decided to pass over Princess Aiko's claim in favor of her male cousin, due to her being female and all. Which made me sad, considering that she's absolutely adorable in the few photos of her I've seen.

My fiance (as of Thursday!) has his PhD in chemistry; I'm writing a dissertation for one in physics. He works in industry; I'm an instructor at a small state school. We have never lived in the same location except for summers.

For me, that used to be it. I went to Catholic school, and my friends and I spent a lot of time not losing our virginity. And in order to do that, we had to rigidly define what sex was.

I have a friend who works for the Xbox division, and he also does not have time to play video games in a serious manner.

I just tuck them in the bathroom cabinet that contains the tampons and pads, and they're right there for when I need them.