Joke's on you Callie. I'm just going to add a beautiful child to my Idris Elba vision board and maybe move back the timeline a few years.

Whatever your opinions are on the veracity of other major world religions, it is hard to deny that their seminal texts have - as their core - some version of "the Golden Rule." Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, tribal religions, etc. all tend to incorporate some version of "do unto others as you would…

I would rather look like an octogenerian's elbow in February, head to toe, than be Tom Cruise. So yeah: he can have that.

We'll I, for one (the only one?) am enjoying Journey week. Those special effects are off the hook! How I loved early MTV when they played music videos all day and night. My friends and I watched the shit out of it after school and at every slumber party. And the videos were so simple and more accessible somehow. Yup.…

Sometimes, I wonder if we'd still love Tom if he still had Pat Kingsley as his pr person. Seems like shit went downhill so quickly after she left his team. He was most likely the same person he is now, but it was kept silent. I think that was the fatal mistake of his professional life.

I would love to spend one day as him and just experience the warm freedom you must feel when you are happy-go-lucky and brainless. I bet it's incredible.

Um, I'm pretty sure I've never had a single rational conversation with my 4.5 year old. Last night we had a conversation about dinner, and her side consisted of a story about the tiny people in her tummy who take the food away from her tummy in garbage cans (note: this is part of the awesomeness of little kids as…

Time outs aren't about being alone, they're about the withdrawal of attention. Most kids are misbehaving because it gets them some interesting—if negative—attention from their parents. When I calmly put my kid in my room, I am removing his chance to get a rise out of me. He's young, so his whole world revolves around…

"But the big thing I think we all need to consider is that being coddled is not the same thing as being lovingly disciplined without yelling or physical punishment "

Seriously. I'm not advocating yelling curses or insults at a child, but if you don't yell "Noooo!" several times a day, or "Stop!", odds are the kid won't make it to 4 alive.

Yeah, no so much.

I totally feel for you. I've had tantrums on the filthy public restroom floor over flushing the toilet, and it wasn't even his poop. My two year old has decided that he is the Official Family Flusher when we are out shopping, and G-d help you if you forget and flush your own pee.

I would also star you a hundred times. As the mother of a two year old who found myself resorting to yelling when nothing else worked, I have understood each and every one of your words deeply. Good luck with your work and your little one!

I apologize for the length of this, but I just want to reinforce that whole "rational" talk you mention.

Sometimes, you can ignore it until they pass out on the carpet. Othertimes, you simply can't ignore it and must deal with it.

I just got back from the future and wanted to share what I found: "Researchers found that talking endlessly to children made them mentally shut down at an early age. When asked, one kid replied, "God, would you just shut the fuck up already? Stop talking at me!"

"I wonder why Eminem was lip syncing. He is on of the few performers who sounds just like his album when he performs live. It's amazing. Most people just can't do that."

Maybe it's been a slow build from the last Soprano's episode? Maybe people listen to the garbage currently out there and remember fondly when Journey (and, like 100 other bands) did it better? I've seen the band with the new singer and while he's fine, he's not Steve GODDAMN Perry! Does Steve even sing any more? Where…

Hell YES on Journey week. As long as it is Journey with Steve Perry, because any other Journey DOES NOT EXIST.

JOURNEY MONTH, LET'S DO THIS.