I’m 48. When I was in college in the late 80s (majoring in a physical science for which I went on to earn a PhD), the story was “There are no women in high-level positions in your field because they haven’t gotten through the pipeline yet.” I assume my grandchildren will be getting the same song and dance someday.

John Masters Organics makes a USDA-certified organic hair spray that works great (non-crunchy!) and actually smells nice! I know it’s not going to win here, because no one knows about it, but people should definitely give it a try. It’s a little expensive, but totally worth it. They have an organic volumizing foam,…

John Masters Organics makes a USDA-certified organic hair spray that works great (non-crunchy!) and actually smells…

I got pregnant with my first at 28, years before any of my friends, and think it’s the perfect time to have kids! I had plenty of fun and partying in my 20s, but I was still fairly young when I had to chase toddlers around. Now my kids are 17 and 19, and I’m looking at being an empty nester before turning 50—still…

Actually television happens because science, not magic. Airplanes too. An airplane flies because of air pressure. The wing is shaped so that when the airplane is moving fast, more air gets pushed below the wing than above the wing. So the pressure is higher below the wing than above the wing. The high pressure below…

I had to add my voice to the ‘happy moms’ camp. Sure, the first few years were a lot of work, and their early school years required a good bit of juggling, but I am _much_ happier now than I was when I was childless! (My husband and I were together 6 years before having kids, so I’ve experienced both partnered…

My daughter’s favorite book is “The True Meaning of Smekday”, which is a fun science fiction book with a black girl protagonist. She was _not_ happy with how much they changed it for the movie (“Home”).

I’m 48 and when I was a kid we had real candles on the tree. (My mother is a German immigrant.) We were careful to put the candle holders on branches with nothing above them, and lighting them was a special event that we only did once or twice per Christmas season. We would sit around with all the other lights off,…

How could you not include a mention of the “Meet Your Second Wife” skit?

I not only kept my name, but we gave one of our children my name and one my husband’s name. The horror! I can hear the fabric of society ripping each time someone uses our names correctly.

What strikes me is how the model has not had all her individual character (moles, under-eye lines) photoshopped away. You never see images like this in the modern era!

Sorry, it’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, end of story.

The same thing happened with my kids. I would start to think they’re getting a little plump, and then 2 months later they’ve grown 4 inches and look fine. And a year or two later, the same thing happens again. It took a while to recognize the pattern.

I kept my name, my husband kept his names, and we ‘switched off’ with the kids’ names. The first one has my last name and the second one has my husband’s. And it’s NO PROBLEM!! People don’t even realize we all have different names. Teachers and other kids who know one of my children assume their sibling and parents…

Why is the “Mom” always used as the shorthand for “incompetent oldster”? I’m the ‘mom’ of the family, and I’m also the driver—including when we go to driving-on-the-left countries and rent stick shift cars. I’ve never had a single problem. My father-in-law, on the other hand, cannot drive stick at all and always has…

Why are there 5 secret service agents there? That’s a pretty high security-to-baby ratio...

You missed the obvious issue with the no-greeting phone call. There’s a delay between when the phone answerer picks up the call and the call is connected to the person making the call. So the receiving party probably _did_ say “Hello” but the caller doesn’t hear it, and they are both waiting for the other one to say…

You realize this is an old image and old story, right? That’s “Shrek”, the famous New Zealand sheep who was caught in 2004.

The first thing I thought is that it’s going to slow down the line to get into the theater by a factor of 10. You’ll have to show up an hour before the movie starts if you want to get in on time. Ugh.

I got a bunch of Sacagewea dollars from the bank and my kids got one for each tooth. That was in the mid 2000s. They loved them. A gold coin! They weren’t ‘shopping’ at that age, so the actual buying power wasn’t the important thing. I think $1 per tooth is fine! (And we are well-off northeasterners, if it matters!)

Stranger in a Strange Land is by Heinlein! Though I think Ray Bradbury’s short stories are must-reads as well.