I clicked over to the CDC report. They were studying the interpregnancy interval — the time between the end of one pregnancy and start of another. So the recommendation is to wait 18 months after birth to get pregnant again. So any siblings spaced less than 27ish months apart fall into the “problematic” too soon…

I believe Stephen Merchant and John Krasinski are Jimmy Fallon’s co-producers of this show.

Fair enough! I’m a 40ish midwestern lady myself, and I have plenty of aunts whom I love and admire very much who also fit parts of that definition but don’t dress that way. That thing I described is the stereotype it seems like the plus-size-powers-that-be are working with — sorry to add to it!

I think that’s right. I would add one piece of the puzzle: an assumption that plus-sizes are older ladies. When I find myself in a plus-size section of a department store, I feel like it is all designed for a hypothetical menopausal midwestern aunt who wears jeans and t-shirts (but “dressy” jeans and t-shirts with…

When I was in my 20s, I had a case where my opposing counsel was also a woman in her 20s. One morning we were in court to argue a discovery motion, and when we stepped up, the (old, white, male) judge said, “well, here’s a real battle of the Titans.” I was so furious on behalf of both of us that I couldn’t concentrate…

I would call that child Lil’ Baby Aidy for her entire life.

About 10 years ago I asked my stylist this question, because she was the owner of a (big, expensive, multi-location) salon. She said that when she started in the business that was absolutely the rule, and now (well, 10 years ago when I asked her), there was a clear age-based dividing line. She said almost 0 of her…

At a salon I used to go to, my stylist would have her assistant team up with her to blow out my thick hair and get it done within the timeframe of a normal appointment. Having two people work on me made me feel like a movie star, for sure. One time they blew a fuse.

I particularly like how the little kids are styled.

I had the same thought and just googled. I can now report that as of the Unbroken premiere in December 2014, Maddox was exactly trace-of-a-mustache years old.

The company's explanation doesn't even make any sense. If, in fact, women are usually the decisionmakers and the billboard is meant to appeal to them, why does it explicitly address itself to husbands? In addition to the first-level sexism of implying that women and only women care about kitchens, the second-level…

True story about how much I don't understand: all my round one votes were based on my belief that this was a contest for what is the Worst Thing.

This is the first time in many years that I'll be getting a refund (thanks, retroactive Obamacare premium subsidy!). For the last few months, I have been carrying a balance on a credit card for the first time in my life. It's a new card with a 0% introductory interest rate, so it hasn't cost me anything to carry the…

This is genuinely, beautifully weird. I couldn't love it more.

In 1983 my family lived in London for a semester while my dad was teaching there. My sister and I were 8 and 10 years old (and, just to set the scene, the whole time we were there we wore matching red windbreakers, so you know, we were pretty cool). One day my mom saw in the newspaper that Princess Diana was going to…

In my 1990s sorority days, we had to purchase actual uniforms for some rush parties — so we were all exactly matching. Getting guidelines for teal seems highly preferable. It's an enforcement nightmare, as these posts illustrate vividly. But it's actually giving the members more individual freedom than we had.

I love Baby Mama, but Tina Fey didn't write it.

I didn't know the premise of this show until today. Now I think the genesis of the show must have been a desire to find a good frame for that super upbeat attitude. It's pretty high concept, but you have to go pretty far out to find something that makes a character with that attitude make sense (rather than just a…

CDC playing catch-up to Jennifer Weiner.

I can tell you the exact date that it did die: February 19, 2003. This was so spot-on that any purportedly sincere usage after it was published is ridiculous: