I find the non-aluminium deodorants are less powerful and need more regular application. Honestly? In a lot of tourist destinations, esp in the summer, people are pretty ripe anyway. Just accept it and do your best.

Don't bring a hair dryer to Europe unless you bought your hair dryer in Europe. Full stop.

Six weeks. 3 countries. 1 carry-on. Europe: London, Greece (Athens + islands), Cyprus (Larnaca). Laptop, books, a few purchases. Embrace the sink/bathtub laundry. You don't need that. That, either. You could probably pick that up on Venice. Just bring the most basic of basics. And extra good deodorant.

Outstanding stuff! Travel is my favourite. I may be in the habit of travelling to move (about half of my trips have resulted in me moving house) and turning cities into human characters, but travel, guys. Travel! If I think of a good story (Russian marriage proposals? Uganda motorcycle trips? Being the worst smoker in…

Henna. Mix with red wine for dark results. Have a care about indigo. TEST FIRST using a good test kit and hair wads collected from your hairbrush. Real henna is good for your hair. But its not a well monitored induatry and a lot of "henna" products are just random chemicals with a smidge of henna thrown in. I wish I…

I'm a curly haired near-40 ginger, and the very idea of cutting my hair short is anathema to me! I have zero wish to embrace "Mom hair" (perhaps especially as I am not mom and will probably never live in the suburbs or drive a minivan or any of those other stereotypical Grown Up things people do). Hair above my…

I don't give BJs. I'm pretty clear about it, too. I have yet to have a man climb out of bed or out from between my legs because of it. Maybe I'm selfish. Maybe that's okay. I'm not forcing - or even asking - anyone to do something they don't want to do, so I'm not seeing a problem.

Best answer. Possibly ever. To anything, really. Always make assholes aware of their cosmic nothingness.

I'm not a parent. As such, I don't really have a dog in this fight. I am a teacher, so I get to attempt to impose discipline on top of (or in place of) parents' discipline. Good times had by all.

It is always the best reason for asshole.

The only celebrities (or "celebrities") I've ever met - despite working in theatre, living in LA, London & Dubai, and having famous neighbours - are authors and Christian musicians in the early 2000s (I used to work for a Christian book publisher, & musicians would visit often). So I can say I've discussed systematic…

Yes, in a lot of places. In my country, my students & their prospective husbands have to get tested to make sure the blood lines don't match up too closely. Thalassemia is real problem here, due to, well, as the article said, generations of incestuous marriages (mostly cousin - distance, but in larger families, there…

flat white = wet cappuccino. But not a latte. Apparently this is a new thing? (I've been out of the US for too long to know anymore.)

I'll even have an educational blog, if it means there's a monogrammed thermos in my future.

Two words: Emirati wedding.

Just living here the past few years - I forget what comparative wealth is in other countries.

I live in the UAE - the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque is down the street from my house (I can see it if I go out on my balcony). Bless Kendall Jenner - that's just a scarf. Well, a bit of netting. But, I mean, it's got sequins, so that's something.

Finally, another hater of the terror that is "holiday food". While the rest of the US get uncomfortably bloated between Halloween and New Year's Day, I just pick at the mashed potatoes thank god for vegetables that have managed to avoid being drizzled in some type of syrup or drowned in cream of mushroom soup.

I live in the actual middle east. Fries on shawarma are a thing. (I don't live in Palestine, but that shawarma looks like what I get delivered.)

Look, if I have to look things up on Urban Dictionary because I am just a square, man, you (you general, not you specific, OP), can google MRA, rape culture, etc. This is practically the whole entire point of Google.