I just started watching True Blood, and I don't know how I missed it up until now. Alex Skarsgard is a tall glass of phwoar. Every time he walks on screen, it's like Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison starts playing in my head.

Yogurt should be simple and fat-plus. Reduce your calories somewhere else. I also think Chobani and Oikos taste terrible. Fage, Seven Stars, and Brown Cow (w/ the cream top) are the bestest. Plain, with a little honey, fresh peaches and berries, toasted pecans, and a light dusting of cinnamon. Yum.

She dyes her hair brown now and straightens all the curls away. It's sad actually.

Your experience is really similar too mine. My siblings and I used to have a running joke where we would tell people we were from a different country each week.

Oh man...THIS all day. My kid is biracial—big curly red hair. (I'm black and my ex is glow in the dark white.) I have a few examples of crazy shit people have said to us:

What is Tyson Beckford up to these days? That would be a sold out show!

I'm an atheist, and sometimes I really wish that I could believe in religion/spirituality. I think there is something really beautiful about the sense of community that you get with a synagogue or a church. I used to work for a kosher catering company, and more times than not, I would find myself backstage with a…

Sorry I missed that part, but it's still a very bad idea.

Hi...um, that's a really bad idea. It sounds like a Nat Geo style, colonialist, sexually exploitative PR disaster . It's terribly offensive. As a black person myself, if I saw something like what your father is suggesting, I would boycott the company or the artist. I might plaster it on the interwebs so that other…

This!!! My little Zip Zap would only sleep if in a Moby or Ergo carrier and wanted to be held all the time. I wish I could have put him down. He always had a perfectly round little (emergency) c-section head. He's super cuddly as a 5 year old too.

Boo, what happened to kismet?

Eh, just figure out how to make your own damn pancake and top with fruit. My five year old is a basically a vegetarian so he gets a lot a special pancakes made with greek yogurt and garbanzo bean flour (white flour too). He won't eat syrup or honey, so just a fruit topping of fresh peaches or whatever. Tons o protein…

I think I was the same age when I found out not being blond haired and blue eyed really meant something. Not to say that it's a magically cake walk if you are, but you totally feel it when someone tells you you're cute...for a brown girl.

I used to think I was terribly unattractive...sad, cave troll ugly. I recently realized that I just have a magically ability to sneeze, eye twitch, or fall over as when somebody says "cheese". It's the reason I look so different in candid shots vs staged fiascos. I used to have a really strict veto policy which now…

I would highly recommend The Hello, Goodbye Window and Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie by Norman Juster and Chris Raschka. These books tell a very sweet story about a girl spending quality time with her grandparents. All Juster books should be required reading anyway. They should just send a copy of The Phantom Tollbooth…