My dad used to just insist on having them tell him the “difference”-how much he’d have to pony up after the trade.

I am wearing a “vintage” Merona all-cotton tee (not the newer blend ones). It is made sooo much better than the recent J. Crew ones....

Exactly!!

All he did was make notes in his calendar of when we actually had sex--I think it was just a star or something. A single star, not even a rating or anything. My mom had thought I was staying on campus all those weekends, etc....way overblown, considering I was the award-winning student in the English department....

It’s not “illegal”--illegal means a crime. It is a civil offense.

This is awesome. I am always afraid that someone will read the drivel I write (my mom found my college boyfriend’s journal wherein he cataloged our sex life—my mom was born in 1930 and is old-fashioned, so it did not go down all Gilmore Girls)

I tried it, and found I was way too obsessed with food on all days. I tended to be binge-y on feed days, to boot. I try to not eat at least 12 hours overnight every day, and eat sensibly the rest of the time and am losing verrry slowly, which is best. I also make sure I am eating plenty of protein—about .75g/pound of…

Crowded pan would be my guess. Nowhere for the moisture to go?

Yeah, me, too. I work around that with CeraVe face wipes (I use them at home, too, as much to stay accustomed to them), but facial sunscreens in particular I have to pack...

I just read in a link in the New York Times daily briefing email (to an older NYT article) that on the first day in a much more eastern time zone, take a morning melatonin and wear dark glasses or stay in the dark until lunch time the first day, so your body thinks it had a really nice night’s sleep. I have not tried…

IF you can sleep while you travel. Sometimes I am successful, sometimes not. I wear an eyemask and earplugs and skip the supper, and still sometimes, nada.

I have supersensitive skin, so I *do* need to pack for European trips--hard to find trusted skincare substitutes there--when I am there, though, I do buy a small tube of toothpaste and a small jar of Vaseline for a two week trip.

I live in famously hot (and humid) Columbia, SC, and when I am trying to get into walking shape for summertime Europe trips (as opposed to just being fit, which can be done at the gym), I mall-walk. It’s boring, but airconditioned. So what if I lower the average age or participants by decades?

but statistics also bear out sammy baby’s position....

Yup. Spend time with old people, especially those over 75 or 80....you can easily see a pattern

Yeah, I learned all about home improvement and repairs back when TLC was The Learning Channel and had very low production value how-to shows. The glitzzz has spoiled everything....

Not an Indian food lover on any metric. I get the mildest possible food, and have been known to eat only bread....

that’s reported cases. I was told that my frequent post-Indian restaurant food diarrheas might be attributable to the rice, and I never reported a case....

I bet there’s a cornerstone with a date, then, if you are curious....

fMRIs--functional MRIs can show which parts of the brain are activated. I strongly recommend Quiet by Susan Cain. It changed my life.