I went on a date in 2007 with a very nice guy who lived in a building across from me, he was a friend of my neighbors and we had met a few times and then he got my email address from them and asked me to have dinner with him. We only went on one date, kissed goodnight, tried to plan a second date but I was about to go…

I laughed when they asked about birth control at my 8 week check up - I was like, um, do people really have sex 8 weeks after doing this????

But indeed after 12 months is a much different place, in so so many ways. And at 18 months I can’t remember what it was like to have an 8 week old. Enjoy your tiny baby and take…

You forget a lot of the details!! Seriously, my pregnancy, birth and the first 4 months of motherhood are like a familiar story I have told, but they don’t feel like they really happened to me. I was so fucking tired! My active labor was 40 hours (I was technically in labor for 3 days) and they were unable to give me…

I just listened to a podcast that revealed to me the fact that almost all the sounds in nature documentaries is recorded in a sound studio and I can’t handle it now - it just seems so obvious!

I keep a mop bucket full of oxiclean ready whenever I put my baby in her “fancy” clothes from Gap or Hannah Andersson outlet store.

But I won’t even dry clean my own clothes, much less hers!

I just loved that little story. I have a baby (technically a toddler, everyone keeps telling me) and since her birth my mom and I are so close. I love having her to talk to about the baby-stuff that no one appreciates as much, and of course all the time we spend checking in (“did she sleep okay last night? Did you try…

I actually think the casting is great - except for the leads. Abigale Breslin seems like such a teenybopper to me - too peppy for the part. Johnny needs to be rougher - not some prep wearing sideburns. Who would be right for the parts though?

I don’t hate all of the “I left the big city and it’s much better now” essays because I am probably part of the target audience. I am from a city that got bigger and more expensive in recent years and is having a housing crises yadda yadda. For several years I lived away but wanted to come back to “settle” and be…

Our baby has a nearly-impossible-to-read name that she will have to explain to people (my husband is from Ireland and I lived there for 7 years, we love the name - it’s fairly common there!). She might one day be very annoyed with us - so we’ll just have to arrange a friendship with Chiara/Ludovica/Fiamma (whatever…

I don’t watch Girls but I occasionally browse Jezebel comments while I breastfeed and this one definitely got under my skin a little bit. Just FYI can we please stop making arbitrary rules about when and how women should announce their pregnancies. If someone wants to declare that they feel pregnant half an hour after…

I can’t believe how with you I am.

The thing facebook does now where your ‘memories’ pop up regularly horrifies me.

Yes! I have a one-year-old and am currently contemplating a second (but, like, contemplating because actually trying is just too much effort right now!). But already I know the shit I did a year ago - big baby showers, tons of photos documenting each stage, reading all the month-by-month websites and obsessing over…

I’m in my 30's! We’ve been pals for a decade. She’s my baby’s godmother. =)

Similar taste in men helps with this issue - we did kiss TWO of the same boys in college, but we never fought about it, and later met our partners while living in different cities. Now our menfolk are becoming BFFs and it’s great.

It’s amazing how after a tragedy of this scale so many people are quick to identify themselves (in these comments and elsewhere) as hazard and safety experts. SO many people are posting their opinions about a space they have never been or seen, and people they will never meet, and stating or implying that if others…

I have been avoiding all comments sections related to the fire because I am so emotionally drained by reading people’s “expert opinions” about this tragedy and how it could have been avoided. But I just want to say - there are a number of things to be discussed in light of this tragedy - including the issue of…

I always called my parents ‘Pa’ and ‘Ma’. My dad says this is because he is southern, but I suspect it’s because my sister was super into Laura Ingalls Wilder when I was learning to speak.

My husband and I go by ‘Mama’ and ‘Daddy’ or just ‘Da’ - because mama is what I call my mother and da is what he called his…

I love the scene in the US Office when Michael finds out Oscar is gay, then speculates, “I wonder if his roommate knows?”.

Here is a dark thought - you know how when people tell you what they would do if they could time travel they sometimes say, “I’d go back and kill Hitler!”. Are we going to wish someone had just knocked off Donald...?