Uhm...no. Who told you that fresh, potable water is a renewable resource? Because it really, really isn't.

OMG you really believe this!!!! Groundwater is not forever! Especially in densly populated areas like California, hence the DROUGHTS and WILDFIRES!!!!! ARGH!!!!!

Agree that a) many places don't need AC and b) that many users are extremely wasteful. I would love to live in the East Bay where temps fluctuate like 15 degrees annually but will never be able to afford it. That said, California is a huge state with a diverse climate. Some is Mediterranean but not remotely all. …

Eh, I grew up in a place where people had couches, car parts, and other assorted garbage on their lawns, and didn't bother cutting their grass. HOAs are preferable to living in a trailer park.

Couldn't agree more with everything you wrote.

Hehe. Glad to know it considering we have a $40 power bill for a 1400 sq foot home at the height of using our swamp cooler. Too funny. My swamp cooler doesn't come on until the house gets to 74-75F as that is the only way to keep it below 78F until dark.

I'm 100% on board with you about the level of air conditioning. We should impose fines on businesses that set thermostats below 70 F unless it is necessary for equipment, etc. But out here on the East Coast, where the summers are overwhelmingly the worst time of the year and the humidity and bugs (bugs! in cities! …

You need A/C down here. The heat and humidity require it. It's 82 degrees and storming right now. In 10 minutes, the sun will come back out and everything will steam.

We could go a long ways towards surviving these situations if we would fucking conserve. Pardon me for going off on a North vs South rant for a second, but the East Bay and San Franciscans typically get on board with conservation and cut back despite the fact that it's the people-filled desert South that bought up…

This is why I like Tucson. People there know they live in a desert and act like it. Meanwhile, in So Cal., we live in a desert and act like it's a subtropical forest.

I'm pregnant now, and to be honest, I want drugs. Lots and lots of drugs. I have also spent most of my adult life researching reproductive health. Here's the truth, natural childbirth is no better or worse than having medical intervention. Yes, I know the natural childbirth people would like for you to believe that…

I don't understand why others seem do interested in pushing their own preferences on others in regards to birth. Do it drug free at home with scented candles and sage burning, have a super medicated planned csection with a crack squad of surgeons planned down to the date, or do something in between. I don't care. And…

All four of my kids slept with me. With my youngest, one day I realized I was getting less than 30 minutes of sleep in a stretch. She was tired as shit too, and it was obvious. So at six months old, with much reluctance, I put a playpen in my bedroom and put her into it for a nap. She slept for six hours straight…

Cry it out at 4 months is cruel, cry it out at 18 months is common sense.

I'm quick to feel shame or think I'm not as good at mothering as I should be. I feel guilty I can't give my son all the experiences he 'should' have. I don't have the means to give him the things I wish I could. The most liberating moment came to me when I was feeling bad on myself about this and my mother-in-law said…

I don't get the drug free birth thing. To me it seems like getting a root canal without novocaine, just to...prove we have a high pain threshold? I'm not judging, I swear to god I'm not, do whatever you want. I just don't GET it.

i'm a nanny and have seen all kinds of parenting styles. the right way is what feels best for you and your kids. not my kid, not my business.

Why is Paris Hilton (still) wearing Juicy Couture? Don't they sell that shit at Kohl's now?

Isha, hi.