Refried beans are the perfect food for a nine-month-old! Full of nutrients yet easy to eat with minimal teeth. My kid’s diet has been heavily bean-centric since she started solids..

I’m familiar with MA health care - I lived there for many years. When Romneycare passed and in the years immediately following, that may have been the case, but I don’t see how MassHealth is fundamentally any different from or superior to Medi-Cal today.

It really is. There’s such low inventory relative to demand that everything sells for well above asking, often for cash, and landlords with rent-controlled units are desperate to get longtime renters out any way they can so they can get market-rate renters in or even sell. Meanwhile, all of our neighbors who own…

That’s great to know, thanks!

Oceanside is lovely! My husband will be working in the Sorrento Valley area of SD, and I work from home, so we’re hoping to balance a reasonable commute for him with an affordable enough area that I can have a dedicated office. If nothing else it’ll be nice to have options - in SF we felt like we had to stay in our…

Definitely! San Francisco is just such a liberal bubble, and enough of the people I know in San Diego are vote-for-their-own-interests-only types who do live in 49 and more than likely voted for that criminal, that my perspective is a little skewed. But politics aside, I’m excited!

Thanks! I’m really looking forward to it. I mean, it basically seems like paradise. We don’t actually know where we’re going to live yet, so we may well not be in the 49th - all our friends and family are campaigning for Encinitas/Del Mar, which would be, but as a longtime city dweller I would really like to be closer…

Until MA enacts state-funded pregnancy disability and parental leave programs to rival CA’s, its hard to argue it’s any more progressive. Luckily for us, Issa and people like him have very little effect on state politics within California.

Ugh, I’m about to move to SD after years in SF, and the thought of willingly moving from someplace so progressive to Issa’s district is so distressing to me. But I guess if there’s one thing San Diego needs it’s more liberals!

I was really surprised by how dark it felt. Despite the obviously serious subject matter, the book had a sense of levity about it that made it a fun read nonetheless. I still liked it - Reese in particular was amazing - but the tone felt a lot different to me.

I’ve actually heard that Essence Make Me Brow is a really close dupe for Gimme Brow, but they are both fiber gels, while Boy Brow is a pomade. The downside of the Essence is that it only comes in three shades.

I’m so obsessed with The Ordinary - their products are unbelievably cheap and unlike Glossier they actually disclose the percentages of their actives so you know what you’re getting. Their 10% niacinamide serum is probably the single most effective product I’ve ever used, and I love the 2% retinol, “Buffet” peptide…

Considering these comments were made at a red carpet event for an HBO miniseries that she stars in, I think it’s more a matter of quotes being used out of context than her knocking TV altogether.

Thank you! When I was in high school a little girl I babysat was killed in an ATV accident. She was maybe 5 or 6, and had been riding on the ATV with her dad when it flipped. No way in hell am I ever letting my kid near one of those things.

And FIlene’s in the northeast.

I agree with this. I had a six-month period of my life when opiods were the only thing that enabled me to function at all. Weed didn’t help me - it actually exacerbated the pain. Of course they’re overprescribed, and of course they are addictive for some, but they have legitimate medical uses and do a lot of good for…

I had a very similar upbringing and I completely agree with you. Private school wasn’t really a thing where I lived (except for the very rich sending their kids to boarding school), so I frankly just don’t agree that it’s necessary or desirable for most families to pay a ton of money to give their kids what may or may…

I really loved The Nest and was surprised to see how many mediocre reviews it got! It was like a connected set of character studies on people who are fascinating despite not being very likable.

My final assessment of “Everything I Never Told You” was that ist was...fine. Nothing special, and certainly not equal to all the praise that was heaped upon it. But then I thought Girls on Fire was wildly overrated too, so clearly Rachel and I have very different tastes in fiction.

So few magazines actually bother with digital layout these days though. Back when it first became a thing, so many of them had beautiful, functional digital editions, but over the past ~5 years, nearly all of them (the food/lifestyle/women’s magazines I read anyway) have gone back to what is essentially a PDF copy of…