I can’t believe no one has mentioned “Annie John,” by Jamaica Kincaid. Great book!

Those are some confident parents.

I know someone who gave their kid the middle name “Gutter.”

Hey, cool!

I wish I did.

I think it was a girl. Poor thing.

I'm a white Ashkenazi too! Maybe this is part of our genetic makeup.

Maybes Totes?

I like Spatula! Brilliant!

I knew someone who named their children “Cougar” and “Granite.” SERIOUSLY.

I would like to name my child Backpack. It’s probably good that I will not have a child.

Mountain goats are the cutest goats! Like goat marshmallows! Aaaaaahhhh!

Skunks have notoriously bad eyesight. Perhaps they didn’t actually see you.

I honestly don’t understand nail polish. :-(

Can anyone recommend a good eyelash glue that doesn’t include latex? I haven’t had much luck finding one, but I’d love to be able to wear falsies, and I have a latex sensitivity. I don’t want my eyes to swell up! Halp.

I wish I could find a subscription box I liked. I’ve tried quite a number, and cancelled them all. If there was one which specialized in unscented products and never ever included any nail polish, then I’d sign up in a hot second!

My youngest sister wanted to be a cucumber one year. And my father, bless his heart, hand-built her a cucumber costume from chicken wire and paper mache, and hand painted it. She was an excellent cucumber!

I haven’t noticed any scent to the lipstick, and I’m generally very sensitive to such things. The gold case is definitely there, though. I want to try their cake mascara.

I LOVE LIPSTICK QUEEN. My other favorite is Besame. Their vintage lipsticks are amazing. The color stays on forever.

And thanks to this glowing recommendation, Sephora just got fifty of my hard-earned dollars ... for the product mentioned in the article, and for this as well. But I’m newly single and deserve some fancy lips!