I love babies and gladly grab any and all that are given to me. (I might be the only man in America that volunteers to change diapers.) That said, a couple of friends of mine say, “I’d better not, I think I might be coming down with something.” Vague enough that you don’t get thrown out of the setting but plausible…

Is Jolie Kerr still around Jezebel? She was “Ask a Clean Person.” She had/has a solution for everything.

I was at a party recently (here I go again with this “I was at a party recently” business) and got talking with a woman who is my height, 6’ 4”. And very, very athletic. Beautiful, just stunning. I asked her whether she had ever dated a man taller than her and she laughed and said, “Where would I find one?”

You shouldn’t feel bad for contracting scabies. Did you ever have head lice as a child, or as a parent? Did you ever have a dog that had mange (mange is scabies.) It’s like feeling unworthy for catching the flu.

Boston accents are incredibly tough to pull off. Even Mark Wahlberg has trouble doing one by now.

One of my distant relatives used to watch 7th Heaven religiously, pun (and reality) intended. I once said to her, “You do realize this is parody, don’t you?” I watched it with her once and purposely laughed at completely inappropriate moments and on the fly I would say, “See, the joke here is…”

You are moving in the wrong direction! Come to New York. My dog is quite the ladies’ man and would be your dog’s best friend.

Pardon my ignorance but why would anyone discount what you have to say because of autism? I have limited experience with it but the people I’ve met on the spectrum were highly intelligent and informative about all kinds of things, they just didn’t necessarily chat in the usual informal way. Some of them didn’t like…

The Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack! When I was growing up my sister and I were little hellions and Christmas Day was just absolute chaos, the screaming, the wrapping paper going everywhere, our dog so freaked out she’d have accidents, ornaments falling off the tree, a big dinner to get on the table for in-laws who…

At the ripe old age of 23 I was a corporate trainer. I worked alone though but because I was so young often someone else from the training department would sit in during at least part of the sessions. The trainees filled out feedback cards, as did my department colleague. The feedback wasn’t always positive but it was…

Good luck with His Holiness! Here in New York things went really smoothly but I don’t drive.

Cheese-filled orrechiette with a garlic sausage tomato sauce. I wish I could say that I made the orrechiette and the sausage myself but I did not. I’m bringing a big bowl of it up to my roof to look at the blood/harvest moon. Hopefully some of my neighbors will be up there so I can snuggle in with them and tell them I…

In Europe they often serve table wines in regular glasses. To somewhat mask my prodigous alcohol consumption around my husband I pour my wine into one of our water glasses. Each holds just about 3/4 of a bottle.

I LOVE the Omni Shoreham. Lucky you. Did you stay there? Did you go to the National Zoo and/or wander over to Adams Morgan or get down to Dupont Circle?

I love that couch in the background of the Pepe LePew gif.

I saw Daniel Radcliffe on Broadway in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” He was excellent. (His role was originally performed by Robert “Bobby” Morse in the 1960s; he went on to play Bert Cooper on “Mad Men.”)

I know how he feels re: Kim Davis. My (gay) husband had a Pentecostal friend whom I despised. The friend needed a place to stay and we had a cluttered extra room in our apartment and we let him stay there for a while. I sucked it up. Life is too short and if people ask you for help you should give it if you can. I…

What is The International Club of DC? Since all the embassies are there when the employees aren’t desperately trying to get up to New York or back home I think the whole city is kind of an international club.

Cruz is not dumb, you’re right about that. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law and Alan Dershowitz thought he was one of, if not the most, gifted students he had ever taught.

I have a little friend (the daughter of adult friends of mine) who, every year, wants to dress up like a dog for Halloween. Three years in a row she’s done this, each year a different breed. Luckily they’re very identifiable breeds (dachshund, poodle, dalmation) so there’s something to work from. If she wants to go…