Restaurants do a similar thing with fries to prepare them. They cut up the potatoes and then let them sit in a bucket of salty water for a while before they fry them. It creates a surface that’s crispy when fried.

Hey gyrl :)

These slippers are seriously the best. I bought them with some coupons for LL Bean, which brought the price down a bit, and I would buy them again at full price if I had to. Maybe most people don’t understand why anyone would value a slipper this much, but for those of you who have searched for the perfect slipper…

These slippers are seriously the best. I bought them with some coupons for LL Bean, which brought the price down a…

Bryn Mawr: Better Dead than Coed!

All the way through the comment threads you’ve been downplaying women’s colleges/schools, “Some women CAN learn in the presence of men/boys”. You seem pretty snide in looking down at women who understand the importance of single sex spaces for learning. Have you looked at the data that says that an OVERWHELMING…

I got the lesbian lecture when I decided to go to Bryn Mawr. (Anassa kata!). People are very worried that women’s colleges will make you gay.

It’s a really good option for SOME women. There are girls and women who CAN develop self esteem and get great educations even when there’s a man or boy around.

I suspect you are answering a troll.

I lol’d at this even though I think Tilde’s school sounds awesome and I’d like to go there. I’m 46.

Thank you for recommending this album. I’m listening to it now, and it’s sooooo good.

I’m thinking TX leg behind this needs to receive samples daily from menstruating women, y’know, since they are so concerned with the minutia of women’s reproductive cycles and fertility.

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.