My husband and I quit February 7th. I smoked for 38 years; he for 25 years. The worst part has been finding alternatives for the “meeting for a smoke”, touching base times. We were not getting along or in sync because we’d lost a large part of our communication time. It only took a few weeks for the money savings to…

My son just told me that $100 is the new $25, regarding entertainment/gift spending. (I was saying how expensive I thought the upcoming pay-per-view boxing is.) We tip 20% or more, but I am now thinking that we need to raise our standard wedding gift of $100 to $150 . . .

Love the Sephora brand Rouge Infusion in any color - stays on for hours! What do you think of Omorovicza skin care?

Time out; the time out chair, steps, whatever. I've mentioned this before, but my 28 year old son still doesn't opt for the "time out chair" as seating - he says he's rather stand :).

Stupid question - how does that slip in? (To a TV news feed; I know the how it slips in otherwise.)

My husband is the person who annoys me the least of all people in the world.

We took our son and his friend to see Green Day when they were around age ten. Ran into our son's friend 18 years later (he recognized us, we wouldn't have associated the huge fellow with the little guy we remembered) and the kid still remembered, with great joy and laughter, his first concert experience, including…

My Father was a Chief Warrant Officer, in the Navy from 1935 to 1958. Although he passed away two years ago at age 94, his mind was still sharp, and he often told us stories of the big guns on destroyers Drayton and Flusser. (He was also the fire control officer.) This article makes me wish he were here to read it -…

We choose the cheap, thin stuff because old house+shallow sewer pipe grade = constant plumbing issues with the good stuff.

The time-out chair works really well. (My 28 year old son still refers to the nice old chair used for that purpose as the time-out chair, and enjoys voluntarily sitting on it.) Hmm - that sounds kinky and odd. Just sayin' that a life-long learning tool doesn't need to include beatings . . . .

Card-carrying woman here: The bigger picture is that one can find examples of businesses of any stripe protecting their rain-making employees and/or their institutions (including religious organizations, a la the Catholic church and pedophile priests.) I'm equally concerned over the weirdly vacillating levels of…

You're back! I remember you from years ago - yippee!

Very nice chicken, good use of color!

Older Jezzie here, born in 1959. I grew up with parents who had martinis/Manhattans daily at cocktail hour. At age two, I - according to family legend - told the visiting pastor - "I'll get the gin." I can only drink whiskey/bourbon, gin or beer. Vodka, wine (white or red), rum, all make me ill. Nature or nurture?

That one always wins at our house.

Disclaimer: Old enough to have owned/worn them in the 1980's. Entrepreneurial Jezzies, would you please make a scrunchie with a smaller, tighter casing, maybe no wider than 1/2 inch? There - problem solved - easy on the hair and the sense of style.

Hmm warm tapioca with milk chocolate bits, slightly melting . . . .it might make you a tapioca believer.

Well then, I am especially proud of you - to reach this level of academic status AND deal with illness. You rock!

Knock 'em dead, sweetie! Virtual hugs to you, and kudos on your academic achievements!!!

Oh, man, and then there is the over age 50 issue. I loved make up. Wore all of it all the time in my 20's, 30's, and 40's. But, I have had to scale back. What was hot at 35 is harsh at 55. I miss eyeliner, but it it just brings out the crepe in the eye area. My mother and grandmother always said that trying too hard…