Zillow owns Trulia, actually :/

I’ve met him; he’s lovely. (Almost overwhelmingly so, although maybe it’s just ‘theater person’ nice - so nice that even people in the cheap seats feel it.)

It almost as though it was written by men and directed by a man... oh, wait IT WAS.

Tons of people making those jokes on Twitter, but it’s not funny for anyone with a kid in the LA-area. Because, to your point, we’re no longer ‘back in the day.’ We’re in the now, and the now is scary.

And their messages are not exactly reassuring: “Glendale School District didn’t receive any threats.” Oooookay. Because a person determined to cause harm would decide to NOT go one mile over to that other kid-full school because of school district boundaries.

My kids’ school (LA-adjacent) is still open. Police presence there today, but still. It was HARD, deciding to send them anyway.

Blame Pinterest, too.

I like you.

See, I bought (at a discount) a pair of cashmere lounge pants some years ago and although they felt reeeaaaalllly nice, it wasn’t nice enough to offset the anxiety that I felt about having cashmere wrapped around my ass. Would I wreck them? What if shark week arrives early? What if there are leaks? etc, etc. And you…

Legit LOL’ed at this.

When my father died, I most appreciated people who acknowledged how terrible the grief can be in losing a parent. Not least because I got some remarks about how I needed to keep perspective and remember that losing a parent is not as bad as losing a child or a spouse. People who *got it*, who expressed their…

I just left a comment about Anna Wintour before seeing this one. Because, god, yes, how can you talk about bangs without talking about Anna Wintour?

Counterpoint: Anna Wintour.

All that, and “there’s no denying that she’s a woman.” LOOK GUYS IT’S A GIRL. WITH *CREDENTIALS.

Toni Morrison could say that babies ARE made by magic and I’d just nod happily at her.

Yes and no. A smartphone is not the same as a TV. My phone is my camera, my communication device, my link to work, my e-reader, my music player, my journal. My kids know that there’s a difference between passive screen time and the kind of ‘screen time’ that is generative, creative, related to work, etc. They know…

They can be boring at any age. Infants are SUPER boring, when they’re not trying to tear your boobs off with their teeth. And while nine year olds can be more interesting to talk to than, say, a three year old, there’s still a limit to how much attention you can give them without some part of your brain rebelling (no,…

I have good friends who separated (more or less amicably) last year. They had been married for nearly 20 years, together (junior high school sweethearts) for almost ten before that. One of them remarked to me that it was very possible that the relationship had just run its natural course, and ended - because it had…

I confess right here that I started crying and ran to hide in the blissfully spider-free shower. My husband, wearing my denim jacket and armed with a broom and a phone book, kept watch. He is much man.

No.