I'm in my 40s and single (LTR with separate apartments), but I don't think I've become any less able to share my life. I have always been a solitary creature with an insatiable need to be alone for extended periods. But when I was younger I felt guilty about this, and also assumed that I would magically change when I…

Except I hope the clown one is photoshopped!

I often find flats the most uncomfortable shoes for rubbing. Maybe there is less support, your foot moves around more? I've pretty much given up on them, except for the more utilitarian ones like Clarks (which can sometimes be funky-cute, but never in a dressy work way). I figure if I'm going to be uncomfortable in my…

So I finally decided to figure out why when I type "jez" into google to get to jezebel I always see a row of google images of a hedgehog. Turns out they link to a wikipedia page in a language I don't recognize, with all these pix of adorable little spiky hedgehoggy creatures getting baths and things. I still don't…

I don't know who Kelly Oxford is, but I have to say of the various things Kurt Cobain's death makes me consider, that really is not one of them.

I wonder about the poo and pee. But I guess dog lovers don't mind that.

So true. I wonder how that Casablanca remake is coming along?

I'm in my 40s and I'm still seen, just not by 23 year old guys. Unless it's twilight, or they're across the street shingling a roof, or they're extremely drunk. But really, why would I want to be seen by them? What exactly would it lead to? The few times I've been hit on by someone significantly younger who had no…

Yep, me too. It looks so French. But I've noticed that many Americans seem incapable of stressing the second syllable of a word even if it's in another language, so it's just as well for their worldwide domination strategy.

While it's true, as many homeless advocates say, that all sorts of ordinary middle class folks can end up on the street, it is also true that it tends to be launched by some kind of shattering incident, mental, physical (less so here in Canada with health insurance, unless it triggers mental or addictive issues), or…

Mine too! We have to content ourselves with our mutual crush on Amy Adams.

My mom had a pressure cooker incident when I was little and it made a huge impression on me. The lid flew off and the little corky thing in the middle went right into the ceiling! She put it away and never used it again... though I think it may also have involved some contentious and loaded issue around cooking some…

I've done project meetings via Skype but nothing important like a job interview. I hate the way I look on a webcam. First off, everyone is staring at their own camera so there's no eye contact. And unless I set up a laptop at some very particular angle and fix all the lighting, and sit at just the right distance, it's…

Well, we were right back when we were teens: It does make you look older!

The milk mucous connection has been fairly widely discredited. But I can see how the thickness of dairy products could make you feel like there was something in your throat.

Well, that's what I meant... yes, there's definitely a fashion/age connection. But there is generally a limit to how much time, money and discomfort we're willing to spend on fashion as we get older, busier, have families, etc. Will Brazilians be a tipping point? Or will they become so normalized that women will…

Interesting. I tend to think the age-grooming correlation corresponds to how much free time we have to spend staring in the mirror and plucking out invisible hairs.

Whoa, NSFW!

Or Coke will buy up all the freshwater supply rights, reroute it to their bottling plant and sell it to us when our taps go dry.

What I don't like about "country music" is not the steel guitar and heartfelt lyrics, it's the terrible plastic pop that's taken its place. Our local "new country" station plays Taylor Swift, for god's sake. But if you like the sound and spirit of country music, there are vast numbers of alt-country and country tinged…