some proponents merely assert that the heat loosens you up. It sounds like a form of torture to me.

I suppose it is related to the deeply flawed but still popular calorimeter approach to determining human energy utilization from foods. I mean, how many times are we told calories in, calories out, by someone with credentials, who means that the number of calories a quantity of food registers when burned in a…

Just the marriage of opposites thing: she is unnaturally plastic perfect and seems uptight, and he is not physically perfect and seems really laid back.

Liz Taylor and Larry Fortensky

Except that SSRIs fixed my irritable bowel, too.....

What is this, a bedazzled appliqué?

Carnival on Seabrook Island, South Carolina? Never happened. Nope. It's a swanky resort sort of island, somewhat more residential than its neighbor, Kiawah, developed from wilderness in the 1970s.

I watched the episode with Walton Goggins, because Walton Goggins, and the magic was gone....

they lost me in the disastrous fourth season, and I tried the fifth, but like a crush exposed to too much reality, I couldn't get back on board.

move over Bechdel Test. Now we have the Berlatsky Test

well, everything is better in Chucktown!

I read that as beach rash, which would make for a far more interesting story....

we just got one in Columbia, SC

TJ Maxx has had lots of their stuff for months.

The skirt is very full, in an unflattering way.

SOUTH CAROLINA! There's a difference, you know

owwwch

and we have better insurance!

yes yes yes! I have been a proud and vocal feminist since I was in grade school and only boys could be crossing guards, circa 1968 SC. I have read and pondered about it, as a young female lawyer in the mid 1980s and since then, and never has the coin dropped so loudly. Such a perfect summation of the bind I was in!

a foam mattress, not necessarily big bucks Tempurpedic, helps because you don't get jostled when the other person moves. We have adopted the Northern European custom of separate duvets, in cold weather, so we don't get cold shouldered when the other turns over, say. I bought the twin duvets at IKEA, and twin duvet…