If you have dark hair and you shave, your armpit will be dark from the hair just under the surface. If you wax, the skin under your arms is the same color as the rest of your skin! It’s amazing! Whenever I wax my armpits I feel like I have model pits.

When I planned our wedding, in weeks rather than months, I told everyone I was throwing a large formal-ish party. Only after things were almost entirely set and I had quotes did I mention that there would be wedding vows exchanged before the food.

Look, in the case of a personal injury accident, if you get hurt you will likely need to sue to get your own insurance to pay up. Since personal injury attorneys work for a share of the damages, and they are limited by the statute of limitations, they are incented to sue anyone who could be liable, and let it all come…

She will be absolutely leaving all communication to her lawyers. If she were to say anything that could possibly be construed as admitting responsibility for the death, some lawyer will sue Caitlyn on behalf of the family of the deceased driver, no matter what the traffic engineering research shows.

My two oriental-type, possibly savanna-cross maniacs love the real animal fur toys from http://hyendry.com . Especially beloved are the raccoon tail, raccoon puff, and the catnip stuffed toobinator. We have also purchased a couple of their walking jackets which get used at least once a day. (Warning, the site designer…

Off to search for duck pastrami recipes now. Damn you.

I read The Year of Magical Thinking a few years after my own husband died, and frankly it was one of the few books on grieving I didn't hate. (You want a terrible book by a writer who is also a widow? Read Joyce Brother's.) I can see how she comes across as self-involved in the book. Grief is an incredibly…

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oh god, tipping. I am relatively well traveled, been an ex-pat more then once and I embarrassed myself and others while tipping badly in China two weeks ago. I was traveling for work so i had almost no time to prepare and was prepping for meetings up to and during the flight.

I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV; however my partner was killed as a result of another driver's actions. Vehicular manslaughter is a legal charge not a description of what happened in the accident involving Bruce Jenner.

What struck me while living in Turkey was how much more prized light-colored eyes were over light colored hair or skin. A darker skinned woman with green, gold or blue eyes was considered much more beautiful than a pale blond with dark eyes. And light eyes are not only beautiful, they are considered lucky as well.

I have IBD, and trigger foods can send me directly to the toilet with crippling stomach cramps so generally I am really careful about what I eat when I am out and about. On Christmas Eve a few years ago, my brother and I ended up at a fancy restaurant with a set menu — delicious food but super rich and rather fatty.…

She was not fully covered though, she was showing her ankles. Which body parts are taboo to expose is strongly culturally determined, thus it's simplistic to claim Selena Gomez was fully covered because her head, shoulders and hips were covered. Wrapping up ones cultural preferences in the rhetoric of universal…

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These meatballs? They are amazing. Now I think I need to convince Mr. Knuffle we should head to Toast for dinner...

Toast is actually our neighborhood local, and the food doesn't feel overly complicated when it arrives at the table. The menu reads very bay area, but the food itself is pretty simple — roast chicken with delicious sides, pork chops with delicious flavors, interesting pasta, steak, a fish dish. And the cocktails are …

In my neck of the woods, the best price for a whole cleaned rabbit is $10/pound. I would assume that, at that price, it was eaten.

I test drove a Skoda and a Seat, and ultimately chose a Skoda Fabio diesel (this was about 6 years ago). The Seat had better trim, but it didn't drive as well and didn't feel as well put together. I loved my Fabio and tried to figure out how to import it back to the US, but I ultimately decided it was too much…

I took my cats with me to Turkey, and then back a few years later. Getting in to Turkey was hard to arrange, but once the cats were in transit it was easy: The Turkish consulate employee had no idea what the regulations were, and he kept asking my why I would want to bring cats to Turkey because "We have plenty of…

Actually, Taksim and Gezi Parki are exactly in Europe. The other side of the Bosphorus is in Asia, but the park is on the European side. Its not the EU, or western Europe. But it's Europe.