I think that it’s great that the gluten free craze has actually made all of us a little more likely to consider other grains in our cooking routines. Maybe some of those grains are actually even BETTER than wheat for some things? Just a wild speculation.

I’m in my 40's and for the last decade I’ve insisted that any man who wants to have sex with me has to take a shower, and wash EVERYTHING really well, first. Of course, I also take a shower first. It’s good manners, people!

Yes! I gave up on cranberry juice for uti’s because it never worked for me. Instead I use baking soda mixed in water. Really does the trick if you can keep it down.

I admire you for sharing your story with us. Shame is so shamey.

I read somewhere that children who have abuse in their pasts are particularly good at reading people, because their well-being as children literally depended on that ability.

Mila seems much tougher when she speaks Russian.

Understood! Of course, my story is also more complicated than my answer, but like you I find that anything else invites questions. And in the end, “I didn’t want any” is a summary of many different events/feelings/plans/surprises.

People ask me all the time why I don’t have kids. I always answer the same way, “I didn’t want any.”

Agreed! I had a former classmate from high school chat me on Facebook, and soon we got around to kids, and I said I had none. She literally just stopped chatting, and I never heard from her again. It was tremendously weird.

Love this story. Ghost offended by sloppy eating!

I think this is a beautiful story.

Beautiful. I’m sure your mom was happy that your son saw her, and that you said you loved her. I think that people “linger” for a little while. When my mother died, I would have dreams where she would come to me as a teenager, which was weird because of course I never knew her then. But I imagine that’s how she saw…

I just read the synopsis and I’m confused; it doesn’t mention any serial killer stuff. Does he touch on that in the book, or did it come out later that Bryson was on the AT when a serial killer was loose?

Oh god, no, I haven’t read it. I am going to get it right now and then fearfully peak at it on sunny days.

The thing that most people fail to understand is that you used to be able to put yourself through college by working a minimum wage job in the summer; about 300 hours of work. You now have to work over 6 months at 40 hours a week to make the same ratio of college tuition. So, minimum wage in 1985 was worth roughly…

I’m going to read more on this guy, thank you!

All FB discussions flame out in partial-birth abortion rants. This is the way we live now.

I stayed in State Parks for the rest of my trip! No more creepy, deserted forests for me.

When I was 30, I decided it was time for me to take my first road trip across the United States. I was young, fearless, and eager to see as much as I could. At the time I was seeing a guy who wanted to travel the first few weeks with me, and then split off when we got to New Orleans at Jazz Fest. My plan was to…

You are a mensch! Thank you for the comprehensive review. I really was worried about spending money on something that would disappoint. Thanks for the road test!