I just gave my mom the most amazingly gorgeous Prada bag for Mother’s Day. Found it at the Goodwill for $20. Goodwill FTW! (I am such a good daughter because I miss that Prada bag so much I dream about it.)

Stalk their sales. I got my fab Madewell tote for 40% off — or about $125. Then I found an even better one from Ralph Lauren at the thrift store for $10.

My Euro name is literally two of the easiest imaginable names smooshed together and some people just can’t deal. They shorten it by half without asking, and when I express my preference that they use my actual name, they look disappointed, like those two extra syllables just aren’t worth the effort.

The vitamin appears to be effective at reducing the incidences of nonmelanoma cancers (I’m not sure whether melanomas were included in the study). You can find the study abstract here. I wish you the best of health!

I rarely take supplements, but I recently interviewed a dermatologist who was very excited about a recent study that suggested taking vitamin b3 (nicotinamide) twice daily could cut the risk of common skin cancers by up to 25%. As a pale and freckled woman who grew up in Southern California, I’m really hoping some…

I just bought my first item from Boden. It’s spendy but they have 20% off sales on the reg. I got a cashmere sweater in a relaxed fit and it is my new favorite staple — it seems to be good quality and worth every penny. I haven’t tried their other clothing but some of it’s very cute, like higher-end, more mod Lands…

My dad’s dad was born in the late 1800s and had very Victorian ways (he died long before I came into the world). I don’t recall my dad ever talking about emotions or anything like that. I was kind of amazed when he sobbed at my grandmother’s funeral last year. He had to become an old man to outlive his old man’s…

“Dad Rock: You Won’t Even Have to Bring a Book to These Concerts!”

I was a very horny kid in a very religious household, but I traded the bathrobe for plenty of pillowy lips later on, so don’t feel sorry for me!

I have a gingham bonnet that I bought for an Oregon Trail-themed party. I wear it for gardening all the time, even in the front yard. I can’t quite bring myself to wear it hiking, though it is marvelous for sun protection.

I have the most ADORABLE vintage sweater that has two stitched bunnies and the phrase: “You’re nobunny ‘til somebunny loves you.” I will never be thin enough to wear it again but I just can’t part with it.

When my parents would make me stand in the corner for punishment as a kid, I’d practice kissing with the thick bathrobe that hung on the back of the door, which was also good for hugging. Did anybody else learn on inanimate objects?

Yeah, I was def teasing on the “what’s one more” but it’s doable (though so hard!) if you couldn’t let go of either the guy or having your own baby. Starting over means you wouldn’t have to deal with your beau’s ex or ex’s family, if that’s an issue at all.

Is he opposed to having another child? What’s one more when you’ve already got three? Personally I was always very ambivalent about having children, and am even now when I still might have the option. That makes me think that not having them is probably the right decision. But if I definitely had wanted them, dating…

I sure hope the alarm technology on these things never, ever fails.

Does your wife take birth control? If so, I can’t imagine that the risks for the snip-snip are substantially higher than the risks associated with long-term birth control use (blood clots, migraines, cancer, etc.) If I weren’t using hormonal birth control to mitigate an insane menstrual cycle, I’d ask my husband to…

Ugh, I can relate to this. I’m 41 and my husband is almost five years younger. My window is pretty much closing and he could dump me tomorrow or 15 years from now and still have children. He says he doesn’t want them and won’t in the future but I worry all the time that he’ll change his mind. Remaining childless was a…

A 41-year-old friend of mine died in his sleep last year. I found out through FB posts, which was such a shock as I’d chatted with him on there a couple of days prior. He was around and then he just wasn’t. I never asked his family what happened, but we all assumed it was an aneurysm. He’d been complaining of a…

Same! After surgery, the morphine made me vomit so violently that it was counterproductive, since every time it happened my leg (with 60 staples and so much swelling) would move and signal my brain that something was very wrong. Is it allergies that makes one vomit? I thought opiates did that to just about everyone…

I was studying abroad in Italy about two decades ago and suffered a terribly painful knee injury in a dance class (my knee dislocated with force and would not relocate). It was almost certainly the most painful thing I’ve experienced other than recovering from the surgery to fix it. In Italy, they gave me aspirin…