They were so adorable! Looked like they were having such fun and really love one another. My elderly heart is tearing up a little bit ...

I'm a big fan of canned salmon — the big cans have all kinds of gnarly bones in them, which is gross. But Costco has a nice canned wild salmon that is just a chunk of filet. I use it everywhere I'd use tuna.

I know! I'm so conflicted. The part of me that's old enough to be their mother thinks "aren't they darling and I'm so proud of them" while the part of me that's not dead yet thinks "oh yum."

I do this all the time. Fave mix is half walnut oil, half olive oil (omega 3s!). Also, a small clove of garlic is not a bad addition.

Ah. When my father left in the 1970s, my grandmother's friends were aghast. "He should just put that woman up in an apartment in the city," they said. "You don't break up a family and a farm over that."

I loved the part of the column where one of the live chat folks responded with "well, would you put down your elderly relative when she got to be a pain?" My grandmother spent from about 98 to 102 looking at us and saying "If I was a horse, you'd have put me down by now." She was so ready to go by the end.

That makes total sense. I've repressed the memory of all those years going to a laundromat. I love my fancy spinny washer and my basement clotheslines ...

Why? I don't get these pod things. Is it that hard to measure out the laundry detergent? I admit, I am old, but those just look like *another* way for corporations to rip us off.

Point Lobos is the best! Also, Moss Beach — the estuary there has everything — seals, otters, birds, dolphins — it's astonishing.

Yup. Been there, and had to cut mine off as well, after years and years of trying to help, and tens of thousands of my hard-earned, barely middle class dollars going down that bottomless hole. (But I'm lying about that, or so I hear through the grapevine. I never gave her anything. Glad I have the bank statements.) …

Yeah, my mother had a screaming fit with me way back during the Anita Hill hearings. Since none of that behavior had ever happened to her, it couldn't be real and how could *that woman* be trying to destroy that man's career like that?!?!

I'm officially old now. My first instinct was "Oh. They're *adorable*!"

Wait! Kiehls is owned by L'Oreal too? My crazy-curly hair relies on Silk Groom Creme (is there a Carol's Daughter product I should try though?).

I was about to say, I treat kids I don't know the way I treat dogs. I'm nice. I'm friendly. And I wait for them to come to me.

My lust for a good tailor's dummy is re-ignited. They're so expensive (and no, i don't want to make a duct tape version of my dumpy middle-aged body).

Oh. Headdesk.

One reason I love love love so much British TV is that the actors and actresses often actually look like regular people. Not like gorgeous people pretending to be ordinary, but like ordinary people.

Yeah, me too. I have no idea what the reference is, but I think it's delightful. Dancing with turnips! Embarrassing your kids!

Who knew? I've been making this chicken for 20 years? 25? for men, women, children, family members and the bereaved. I just though it was "roast chicken."

Between Happy Valley, Last Tango in Halifax, and The Paradise — Sarah Lancashire is my new favorite English TV actress. Also, the actress who played the evil lady's maid O'Brian on Downton is the sister on Happy Valley. It's a terrific series —