• Don’t use dryer sheets. I’m surprised you’re still recommending them. Fabric softener if any sort ruins your clothes and makes your towels much less absorbent. Just forego it.
  

That’s why I don’t use wooden utensils. I can’t fathom a scenario in which it’s possible to clean them. 

I spent decades in customer service — from service rep to managing call centers of hundreds of reps. My best tips:

Yes, to Sophie’s Choice. I love Styron, especially this novel. The movie is excellent. And I can’t bear to revisit either.

No lie: I haven’t laughed so hard for a long time.

One thing to ask yourself is who is your intended audience. If it’s mostly friends and family — folks outside your industry — the “humble” bit isn’t helpful since they don’t know the context.

The the kitchen in house I grew up in had two breadboards (for cutting bread) in slots in the kitchen cabinets directly below the counters.

If you’re gonna caramelize onions, you might as well make a pot full. They refrigerate or freeze well.

My belief is that lots of couples sleep apart, but the social stigma of doing so keeps us from talking about it.

Removing the bones from short ribs or any other cut is a matter of cooking the meat bone-in, then fishing the bones out at the end. Ina’s short ribs slip out of the meat without effort if the meat is cooked sufficiently. 

I like the Oui yogurt jars. But without kids their utility is limited. 

Lifehacker, a website site that evidently refuses to employ copy editors, isn’t my first choice for grammar coaching. You lost me on the “it” business with this error:

Costco usually has a decent brand of clam chowder in its prepared food section. I add a can of minced or chopped clams with their broth to each tub of the prepared chowder. More protein, more volume.

If you’re going to do that baking thing you might as well cut your bagel in half and put the everything seasoning on both the top and the bottom. 

I wonder whether you would have been as concerned about this behavior in a son as in your daughter.

I use a little dab of Dawn for its grease-cutting properties. It’s handy and effective. 

I retired 13 years ago, but, based on what young women friends tell me, “Grow a penis,” would rank high on this list. 

Log of goat cheese. Add a generous grind of black pepper. Drizzle with honey.

I’m thinking a piece of a date for the dried fruit. Or a piece of a dried apricot. 

So many people seem unaware that LASIK is a high-profit service and there is a lot of high-pressure sales techniques many practitioners use to sell LASIK.