I’m in the process of doing the 30-day smartphone detox as recommended in the book How To Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price. The goal isn’t to give up the phone entirely but to redefine your relationship to it. I have already noticed a significant improvement in my ability to focus and my quality of sleep. I…

I lived in Chicago for many years and let me tell you: True Trumpistas wouldn’t be caught dead near that part of town at that hour of the night and definitely not at this time of the year. That last line (“This is MAGA country!”) was my clue that this might not be on the up-and-up. For Jussie’s and all our sakes,…

Thank you for this! I’m looking forward to listening to these two artists as well as a couple of the others mentioned in the comments section.

When I was a kid my mother swore I’d learn to like liver and onions. It’s been over 40 years and I haven’t learned yet. She’s still holding out hope, God bless her.

I’m sorry but...who is this child? Doesn’t he have any people?

They sang “Stand by Me,” not “Lean on Me.” Though that too would have been a completely legit song to sing.

Words simply cannot express how much I love this.

I never order Mongolian beef and in fact I rarely cook beef but I was in my local grocery store and they had a sale on grass-fed so...

The first TV I ever bought with my own money was a 13" color TV that cost about $200 with tax. I took the bus up to Zayre to get it and took a cab back. I bought it so I could watch the 1988 Summer Olympics.

These are all really good ideas. I’ve gotten to the point where I have to be in a certain mood/mindset to go to the theater.

My parents had been dating for a couple of years, then my mother got pregnant with me, so they got married. I’m fairly sure that if abortion had been legal back then, I wouldn’t be writing this now...but because both of them were, and are, conscientious people, I’m here to put in my two cents on how well they did…

I kept thinking as I read this: “The self-hate is deep with this one.” And then you ended the article with that thought...

YES. That scene was and still is hot!

I was 7 when I discovered TOS. I crushed on Kirk UNTIL this episode. Mirror Spock was SEXY Spock. Also, I wanted to be the Captain’s Woman. With Captain Spock. Rowr.

I saw your entry and decided to try this with my last packet of Indomie Mi Goreng Hot and Spicy Ramen. I used 2 eggs (I like eggs so I don’t mind) and it needed some scallions, but other than that it was really good.

This is one of my all-time favorite stories ever. PLEASE GAWD let Spike’s version be better than the movie.

In 1998 I paid cash for a new Toyota Corolla. (Dot-com, stock options. Still the biggest single cash purchase I’ve ever made.) 19 years later it’s got 175K on it and for the most part it still runs like a champ. One mechanic told me that cars age just like people do and so long as you replace the parts and the body…

Both my parents grew up poor, although my dad says he didn’t realize how poor until he was an adult. He grew up on the (family-owned) farm, oldest of 8, and my mom grew up in the city and spent her teen years in the projects. So I, growing up on a tree-lined street in a peaceful suburb with working-class and…

Except that in the case of one roommate of mine the dishes would “soak” for several days...

Washing dishes is one of my least favorite chores, which is one big reason why I love my dishwasher. If I’m cooking a bunch of things at once, involving a lot of bowls and utensils, into the dishwasher they go. (Not pots...never…

Any winter music list that doesn’t contain Cantus Arcticus isn’t worth the bytes it’s written with. Thank you for including it.