I haven't sat next to anyone truly disgusting, but I'm afraid I've been the disgusting person once. Halfway through an 8 hour international flight I got a terrible, searingly painful, antacid-defying bought of trapped gas. Over the next few hours I tried to sweat it out in my seat as much as possible, but at certain…

It's especially weird because these people have seen my around kids. I am BAD with children. I either completely freeze up or default to treating them like puppies, which I honestly find more predictable. Yeah, why not encourage the woman with the terrified look on her face to get one of her own! That will go…

I think this is such an interesting subject, and one I suspect we don't currently have the right vocabulary for. I know my mother loves me and my sister completely- but I also know she regrets that her entire life was derailed because she had us. She was and is a very good mother, but as I've gotten older I can…

Oh God, what is it with people bringing it up??! People think it's entirely appropriate to straight up say "You should have kids now!" because they love having kids. We've been married about 9 months too, but we've only been living together for six. I just finished graduate school and don't even have a job yet, what…

I was pretty shocked the other day when I was reading a property listing that was described as being in an "urban" area. As in, it was actually in the quotation marks. I really couldn't believe it was there, but there is no other damn explanation for it being used that way.

You're definitely not alone. I had to go to my new OBGYN just last week and the only doctor anywhere remotely within the area covered by my insurance was a man. While he was thoroughly professional and incredibly helpful (it was also the least painful pelvic exam I've ever had), I still felt very uncomfortable, even…

I neeeeeed the ankle elastic! I am very short and this is the only way I can have sweatpants that don't drag along the floor and trip me up when I go up stairs.

But...I've been wearing sweaters with my denim and printed shirts underneath for the last two winters, and I was assured this look was "basic." What's the Venn diagram for "basic" and normcore?

Yeah, I think I'm much, much better looking now I'm in my late twenties. When I was 22 I still only had a rudimentary idea of how to dress myself or how to do my hair and make-up. My self-esteem was at floor level too.

I think people do. And I think once you are in a LTR you just realize that you're never going to be "ready" for absolutely everything that life can throw at you, so you just suck it up and decide you'll work it out if and when it happens.

Okay, but you were the one who initially qualified your response. I just posited that the qualification itself was kind of bullshit.

I don't get why you're being so hostile all of a sudden. All I said was that relationships take work and it's fine not to be into that right now, but that hinging it on X and Y circumstances is unrealistic. By and large, I've seen that people who want to be together will be together regardless of circumstances.

Yeah, I'll I'm going to say is that if you're constantly waiting for the perfect collusion of circumstances in which to have a relationship, it's probably not going to happen. You are looking into the future and only seeing the possibilities for things that could go wrong.
What if you met someone who was more than…

I'm confused- why do you think 2-3yrs is such a short amount of time? I relocated to a different country to continue my relationship with my husband after knowing him for a year.

I actually don't mind the middle two so much. "Golf" at least has a great soundtrack and that woman looks genuinely delighted to be wearing those clothes. "Dress Like No One's Watching" is at least funny. The first and last ones though? Ugh.

Eh. I normally find him very attractive, but this isn't working for me. I think the Colin Firth moment was so effective because his Mr. Darcy was all about the barely-restrained physical passion that was bubbling along under the surface. It was a moment of catharsis and release. Cumberbatch just looks like he's been…

I love that she seems to be singing it. That's the only way I'm going to cuss from now on.

She also did a special Friday Night With Jonathon Ross in the UK in 2009- the whole show was devoted to her, interviews and performances. So technically, this is her first late night talk show in the US since the 60s.

I moved to the Midwest from the UK* two years ago, and I still just can't with pretzel salad. My husband's aunt brought it for Thanksgiving, so I can't be rude, but it was very hard for me not to say "Excuse me? This is a salad? This awful looking thing that contains no vegetable matter whatsoever? And you are…

Yep, I'm a 28E, a size that just flat out doesn't exist according to American manufacturers. My bras get shipped over from Europe and cost an extortionate amount, so I only ever have about 2, boringly functional bras (I love you, Freya Deco, but sexy you ain't) at a time and maybe another "sexy" bra that I've been…