i am trying a solution to this problem with my husband - a white noise app that i can focus on instead of his breathing. it's just been a week but its definitely better than trying to sleep over VERY LOUD BREATHING. i tried airplane noise first, which was okay since i travel a lot and i'm used to that sound. last…

lol well no, not mad. I don't have kids so it's not like I'm personally upset by your claim. but I have this thing called empathy that helps me to understand other people's feelings without having experienced the situation myself.

i wish i had advice fo ryou but i don't have kids. i just wanted to say i read your comment and wished you all the sleep and peace possible for a mother of 2 little ones.

you can hold your i'm-a-superior-mommy BS to yourself. esp since the article you're commenting on acknowledges that the majority of parents do not experience a drop in happiness upon the birth of a 2nd child. your experience of being awesome doesn't negate those who do have a hard time with it. nor does it add…

i'm not sure but i took it to mean that blackness is not the only part of identity — like he just realized that we exist on multiple axes of identity yet we overlook an axis if we're in the dominant/mainstream end of it. i.e. he's black and a man, but he had just thought of himself as "black." because the man part is…

Re Indian women searching about eating papaya — it's because of an old wives tale that says eating papaya during pregnancy causes miscarriages. they are probably googling to find out if it's true or not.

no. no one would meet two Smiths in the same geographical area and ask if they are related.

thank you for your comment. people can mean well and still be ridiculously racist and stereotyping. in fact when racist people say they are not racist, they are saying they don't MEAN to be racist so it shouldn't count.

it's offensive because a non-minority only says "oh, i love (respective cuisine)!" when meeting that minority in order to establish a feeling of common ground — like, "oh i know parts of your culture and i love them .. like i'm one of the cool americans that is down with diversity." Whereas the minority already…

i personally like a tan on me because it evens my skin tone out from masala chai with spots of caramel to a nice smooth caramel.

haha what a great description. my family is living through a similar situation (though it's "just" elderly illness causing the guilt tripping and toxicity, not pills) and i tell you, had i known the movie it was going to be, i would have saved myself tension. it just just darker and darker and then ended so...…

i know, fantastic movie, and so much of it echo'd any large-family from a family-oriented culture - it meant a lot to me (south asian) and a huge variety of my children-of-first-gen-immigrant-parents friends!

i think the quote refers to not wanting to be a female sidekick in an action movie who doesn't do much. however from the reviews i've read of this new movie, she is NOT just a sidekick ("badass" has been used in multiple reviews!) - she seems to play a major role on par with Tom Cruise. So, that is not a shift in…

they seem to have updated the picture on that swimsuit:

so true. you know this STILL gets spliced into song mixes!

yes! even the clips they used for the intro theme were awesome.

that was a great speech and a great lesson — do what makes you great, not just what makes you happy. and every great accomplishment comes with some fear or terror.

your comment is incredibly unacceptable and uncalled for. in so many ways.

I just saw a commercial that Queen Latifah is getting a late night show on BET! would be cooler if it was the primetime tv late night, but still.

lol had I not currently been on my period, I might have wondered if Shutterfly knew something I didn't :)