Roo, you have inspired me to see what I can find for her! Thank you!

You know, I realized that is exactly why it bothers me. If, by definition, everyone has an ethnicity, but only hair like mine gets referred to as ethnic, that translates back to me, and people like me in this respect, being ‘the other.’ Straight hair is the norm and kinky hair is the outlier.

Rooo, that is such a lovely thought! But she lives for most of the year outside Venice, Italy. Her mother (my youngest sister) died in 2010 and my brother-in-law couldn’t get his citizenship—no longer the spouse of a citizen ;-(—so he moved back to where he grew up.

I am pretty sure they wouldn’t do it if we wouldn’t watch it.

My God, she is so astonishingly graceful and poised—at ELEVEN. Wow.

I used to LOVE Bebe clothes way back in the day. I had an olive green stretch wool suit with a long pencil skirt (mid-calf) that was the bomb, as the kids say. That had to be more than 20 years ago. Haven’t shopped there in years though.

I love this comment.

Ask the server what s/he prefers (if there is no sommelier) and ask for a taste. Any restaurant that has such a large selection of a single varietal should be prepared to do that.

Rich people are less salty, I understand. Kind of bland.

Thank you. I just had a sudden weepy moment here.

I have to take in the waist on every pair of pants I own. I am right now flinging pants onto my bed to see if this works with any of them.

I love this song. I used to listen to it all the time when my sister was dying of cancer because she was (periodically) bald or had little fluffy curls. Now I can’t hear it without crying.

Wait, what? Is this true?

What an inspired metaphor!

I get that. I brought it up. My point is that I don’t understand why an adjective that could literally be used to describe almost everyone on earth has come to mean ‘kinky hair.’

I am prepared to prepared to accept your judgment on many things, but I am also prepared to maintain my opinion that ‘ethnic’ is a stupid way to refer to any particular subgroup. I am not saying the subgroup doesn’t exist. I just think there has to be a more accurate way of referring to it.

Um, yes.

I am white and 60 yo. For most of my life, my hair has been 3b/3c, although now that I am thoroughly post-menopausal, it tends to 3A. I had it chemically straightened once and my husband begged me to never do it again, which was no problem, because I hated it. I never realized how much work straight hair was—too used…

This is the first time in years I am not going to Westminster. It’s such a great show because it is still benched, which means the dogs stay for the entire day on which they are shown (on benches, natch). And—get this—you can go back stage and PET THEM ALL. Dog people are weird but incredibly friendly and they love to…

“3. The fact she attempted to bring a gotdamn rodent on a plane. The bulk of my adult life has been spent intentionally avoiding enclosed places where rodents might be. I’ve never, ever, ever, ever been in a place and thought, “You know what this space needs? More rodents.”