It’s a shame people take an all-or-nothing approach to artistic talent — either have a big, splashy career, or don’t bother at all. I don’t have the drive (or the time) to make it as an artist, but making art just for myself is a big part of my self-care. My friend with a very successful corporate career spends her…

Ditto my grandfather. I’m 99% sure I was vaccinated, but I just can’t get confirmation.

I just finished reading The City We Became, so I’m not in a hurry to visit Staten Island.

I grew up in a rural area, have spent my entire adulthood in cities, and visited many friends and family in suburbs. My rankings:
1) City (but one with good public transportation)

I’m having a hard time picturing myself making several factual errors and typos in one document, and just shrugging and saying “Good enough.” At the risk of sounding like Boomer (I’m Gen X): Does this guy have no work ethic?

Hmm, it’s a good idea but I think I would find it more annoying (getting out the pan, lining it, throwing out the liner, cleaning the pan) than my current method: divide the meat mixture in half, divide each in half again, and keep going until I have portions small enough to make two or three meatballs each. This way…

I watched this movie so many times on cable when I was young. I’m glad to see it’s getting some recognition.

I think that would be partially remedied by making the fines a far, far bigger deal, too big to blow off. Fines are usually determined statutorily, with “regular” people in mind, which is how Lori Loughlin, for example, got fined $150,000 — a fraction of her $8 million worth. That’s hardly a deterrent when she spent…

Hah, really?

The line itself, with the qualification, is good. And I think I had less issue with what Dunham was doing, and more with critics and fans who zealously argued that the girls represented all girls in their early 20s. My life and choices were so far from what the show portrayed, it was laughable.

Unfortunately, I’m incapable of misusing an apostrophe on purpose, even for the sake of being petty.

She did use it! I just could not be bothered to figure out the keystrokes for that.

Going the fun, light-hearted route works for the subject matter. The best times I’ve had playing Pathfinder have been when we were goofing around and laughing our heads off.

Oh sure, publish this just after my son used up the last of the popcorn in the house. I guess I know what I’m buying tomorrow ...

I’m in a facebook parenting group with someone who’s corporate counsel for the Lego company, and she is constantly telling people to call the pieces “Lego (tm) bricks.”

In Puerto Rico in my youth we’d fry up little cubes of queso blanco and they absolutely delicious. Even fancy restaurants sometimes served this with drinks. I’ve tried replicating it recently, but there must be something different about the queso blancos I can find now, even the ones designated as friable — they just…

It’s not just the lack of editors. Don’t the writers themselves reread their prose, even once?

I wish I had had this option; I was nine months pregnant when I saw RotK. Fortunately I knew the source material well enough to time my breaks around the scenes I wanted to see.

Right? I would LOVE for my son’s respite bus to travel the last two miles to me, but nope. So I have to go on a short trip every day.

I read the novel recently, and I found it to be quite funny, funnier than Emma and Pride and Prejudice (but not Northanger Abbey).