Yes, my dog is a source of constant joy. Also friends' children and nieces/nephews. I have never thought that it was something I'd want in my own life 24/7, dear god- the horror!!

Well, like I said, I tend to ask people questions that in retrospect aren’t generally considered appropriate. My husband says I have no filter. I’ve asked plenty of people if they plan to have kids, and usually if you approach it right, the conversations are very nuanced and you learn about how other people live and…

I probably ask people a lot of questions that others find inappropriate. I’m interested in how people live and why. It’s something I talk a lot about. I have absolutely no problem with someone asking me why I don’t want kids. I think it is a natural question because most people DO have kids. I agree with you that it…

Yes you are probably right. You are a man and bigger than me, so you probably eat more. I eat about 2K calories a day, 2.5 when I’m training. This is a rough estimate- it’s not that I plan my meals out for the calories, but a few times I will enter my typical meals and snacks into a nutrition calculator to see, and I…

I’m no fitness expert either, just running my mouth online. Your workout is similar to mine except that I just go 4-5 days a week without any schedule beyond that. About an hour of strength training and 45 min of cardio. I have never considered measuring how much protein I eat - I mean, to accommodate the variance in…

Halle Berry is very thin. She is also a classic hourglass shape with the same measurements and height as Beyoncé. She's simply thinner.

I didn't either. I mean, I accept that the fact that I'm looking at a fashion magazine and talking about celebrity body shapes and all that is in itself stepping into a world that includes unrealistic body images that causes distress for some people and skews the population's view of what women should look like. By…

Well... I don’t know. I just looked her up on that Celeb Measurement site and they have her at 36-26-37 which is sort of textbook hourglass curvy. Beyoncé, for comparison, is 36-26-38. They are relatively the same height. The only difference is that Halle Berry is extremely thin whereas Beyoncé is just thin. That's…

What in the world is deathfatties? That just sounds like a horrible term.

This was a much better way of saying what I was trying to say.

But curvy means having curves. It doesn’t mean being big or small, and it’s not about being OK or not OK to have a body shape. It just means that you have curves. Some people don’t. Most of my life, I did not have curves. If you took my dimensions, they were all very similar to each other. I was not curvy. As I’ve…

Yes! And that is only to replace the one you sacrificed to Osiris last Samhain.

Uggh, that sounds horrible! I’m sorry you have to deal with that. I think maybe I don’t get that sort of behavior because I’m generally not a very polite person. If someone said something like that to me, they’d like get screamed at or something thrown at them. I come across as being a little volatile and rude…

Heaven spelled backwards is a thing here. Neveah. Such a common name now that people have forgotten it started because it is heaven backwards and so they are spelling it differently: Neveah usually, but also Niveah and Navaya. That’s how names evolve, I guess?

Half my family is here and half is there. Husband’s job takes us to both.

It’s the details, though. I’m living in rural Texas and urban India- and in neither place do I met folks who run with society. But those experiences can’t account for why your response was so awesome. Maybe why Val D’Isere rolls of your tongue, but the bell tent? Moving around the taxidermy squirrel? If I had several…

Yup, I was thinking that too. One of the good effects of all the new names is that the kids these days don’t seem to bat an eye at them. Maybe I’m the one with the problem- an old grump. Still, I really wish I could tell you some of the most egregious examples. But if they ever googled themselves... I mean surely…

That was brilliant. You win the Internet just for Mordecai Pindrop. I wish I were clever enough to keep it coming but my eyes are full of tears and I’ve got nothing in response.

Buddy, I’m not sure why this is so confusing for you. I really don’t know what to tell you, and I think it has actually even crossed the line of what I find amusing, and I’m an annoying pedant. I’m going to try to explain one more time because I’m alarmed that you think I’m talking about eating raw grains...

At least it’s a real name. And Rudy is hip. These days, in the US anyway, with the rise in Spanish names in the classroom, Rudolfo is very common. Probably grew up the only Rudolph though and had a lot of shiny nose jokes? It’s an old-fashioned name anyway which means that in another generation, it will probably be…