Absolutely. My boyfriend's aunt and uncle have a black lab/beagle mix that is obsessed with Bosc pears. They own a produce shop and keep him off leash so he will literally walk into the store unaccompanied and take a pear off a display. His primary diet is brown rice, steamed vegetables, and higher quality wild…

Alas, no. It was my friend's bachelorette party and she was way too drunk to go anywhere but back to the hotel.

I saw Ryan Kwanten in a bar once...I told him I was a big True Blood fan and asked if I could buy him a drink. He wound up hanging out with my friend and I for at least half an hour and actually invited us to come with his posse when they left. So, yes.

I just had a Mirena inserted not three hours ago. The insertion was no picnic - dilating a cervix that has never been dilated is SEVERELY crampy - but I'd read so many horror stories on the internet that I was half-expecting a searing pain that would make me pass out and throw up simultaneously, so compared to that…

My grandmother gave me my "wedding silver" for Christmas a few years ago. I was 25 at the time - a regular old maid.

I think we may share a mother. My cousin brought her four month old to Christmas dinner (first baby in the new generation, hopefully for a while) and I swear to God my mother conducted a 20-minute conversation with it in 90% gibberish.

It can definitely be a pain. It doesn't really bother me if people ignore the accent mark, but any time someone I interact with professionally takes the time to add it, they pretty much automatically win me over. It may be a little detail but having spent most of my life correcting people (and mastering rapid-fire…

Why oh why would anyone willingly put an apostrophe in their child's name? On my borth certificate, for reasons unknown, there is an apostrophe in my name instead of an accent mark (Rene'e) and it is my secret shame.

They never did. This was like 26 years ago now, so I don't think that technology was available then, and at this point it doesn't really make a difference. It's be interesting to know though. Twins do run in the family.

My mom dressed my brothers in different colored version of the same clothes. Nick got red (a mnemonic device for everyone who couldn't tell them apart, since St. Nicholas equals red) and Nate got blue.

Agreed. My brothers are twins (allegedly fraternal, as there were two placentas, but you will never see a more identical-looking set of twins), and at birth, one weighed almost nine pounds and the other almost ten. Having twins would be my worst nightmare.

Me too. To make matters worse, my twin brothers hold the record for the largest set of twins ever born in our hometown hospital...26 years later. Multiple giant babies, no thank you.

I think about this a lot. I grew up in a lower middle class home - dad was an auto mechanic and mom got around the fact that she absolutely could not afford to stay home by offering child care for others. Even adjusted for inflation, I probably make twice what they did combined (granted, I live in very costly San…

My favorite method of coooking brussels sprouts, which sounds like it would be more to their liking, is to cook up some lardons of bacon, take them out, pan roast the sprouts in the ensuing fat, then throw the bacon back in along with a few glugs of maple syrup. Delicious and healthy...ish?

I just discovered those last month. My life hasn't been the same since.

Ahh, I am dying to make that. I made the apple pie from that same feature this weekend and it is incredible!

I'm going to my boyfriend's family's house. His mother has at various points in her life owned a bakery and a catering company (seriously, her chocolate chip cookies are at least twice as good as any others I've ever had, and we are not talking about a small sample size...and her carrot cake is just OMG). I am a…

The exact same thing happened to me with my high school best friend! Except she didn't even bother to invite me to her couples things after the wedding. Anytime I was in a relationship, she'd want to go out on double dates, but if I was single, she had no interest in hanging out with me whatsoever. I've since moved…

There are a lot of scary, scary stories here, but damn. You win.

In my hometown in New Hampshire, there is a 19th century textile mill that has been converted into a shopping mall of sorts housing a variety of local retailers. When I was in high school, I worked at a candy shop that was located in one of its outbuildings, presumably either an office or foreman's quarters or…