Heinlein took on the coloration of his wives. When he was married to Leslyn he was a liberal. When he was married to Virginia he was a libertarian. In all iterations he was a product of his times (pretty much stuck in the 1940s military mindset)).

That is essentially the recipe from Cooks Illustrated that I’ve been using for years (without the Instant Pot). It’ll be Instant Pot all the way this year!

How about, if the farthest “off road” you ever go is the mall parking garage, stop thinking you need an SUV.

My parents thought it was SO CUTE to give my brothers sips of beer when they were little kids. One alcoholic and two problem drinkers, yeah baby.

Hmm. 12.3% fake. But “fewer fakes than most” with my level of connections.

My father, who was born in 1922, was absolutely adamant that butter could NOT be left out to soften because “It will go rancid.” Nothing would ever convince him otherwise. So our family scraped rock hard butter over toast and hoped it didn’t tear it into too many pieces. And baking with rock hard butter was an…

Is the picture of a ‘64 model Beetle? The bumper doesn’t look right.

I graduated from high school in 1968 and we put a lock on the TV so the kids couldn’t zone out with the tube before I got home from work. I gather we were the meanest parents on the planet (and we had zero money for afterschool activities or a video game console so the kids got mucho mileage out of complaining to…

My granddaughter knew the fake remote was fake the first time she saw it (she was two at the time) but she plays with it anyway.

Our move into this house was the perfect opportunity to take three two-foot stacks of technical journals that my husband refused to part with (he might miss something!) to the recycle bin.

It’s just as well my mom died before vaping became popular. Otherwise she’d have seen it as a “safe” way to keep smoking.

I never saw a machine like that. I wonder how long they lasted?

At one of the grocery stores my mom shopped at when I was a kid, I put some money in a soda machine that dispensed bottles, and the bottle got stuck coming down. So I reached up inside it and jiggled the bottle and another bottle came down with it. My brother was thrilled to get his own bottle of soda (we usually had…

My dad was an olympic champion picky eater. Eggplant was one of the few vegetables he actually liked, but my mom hated the stuff and hated preparing it even more, so I don’t remember ever actually eating it when I was a kid. My dad would always order it if he saw it on a restaurant menu.

A friend of mine whose daughter was almost the same age as my son put the kidlet into a walker all day every day before she could even sit up by herself. The poor kid never learned to crawl, and couldn’t reach past the boundaries of the walker to play with things.

The biggest problem with GrubHub is that they use drivers from the restaurants instead of having their own drivers like DoorDash, UberEats et al. Our last two experiences with GrubHub were absolutely miserable. Food showed up way late and the restaurants, when called, clearly didn’t give a crap about it.

When my kids were in school, we had no money and I had no car. So there were no activities that cost money or needed transportation. Yes, my kids lived a different life from that of their friends, but now when all of us look back on it nobody is unhappy about the way life turned out.

What happened to having desks and lockers to store stuff in?