Awww, thank you :-) I was approached several times when he was younger, but I just never followed through. He has always been a happy, super friendly kid. This photo brought him to the attention of a local magazine, but it just felt “off” to me. I guess I was weird about it? I don’t know; he was an easy child, though,…

Same! My kid just turned 18, and he’s still into style and looking gooood in part, I (want to) believe because I dressed him nicely when leaving the house. This is my kid at George’s age; he also had the smocked outfits as an infant, beautifully hand-knit sweaters that people would stop me and offer to buy from me…

My mom constantly tells me that she thinks my baby is a dead ringer for Charlotte. I don’t really see it, though!

While I hate to get in the way of a good American Vogue hate-on, Hamish Bowles is a delight. I mean obviously he’s a fop and a toff, but he’s both in on the joke and has the academic fashion and interior design history chops that make him a legit expert in his field. To me he gets grandfathered into that category of…

Weirdly, I once ended up on holiday with a travel editor for one of the glossy Condé Nast mags. Or rather, I was on holiday, she was working. She had two enormous suitcases for 5 days, and spent most of her time in a single sheer leopard print cover-up, wearing masses of beaded jewellery, sunglasses so large they…

They may be exaggerating, but have you ever thought about how many students in the LA County School District only have access to computers through their schools? According to 2013 data, roughly 70% percent of Californians have broadband internet access in their homes, and while this number may seem like a cozy…

Or kids that had to act as baby sitters to younger siblings, because their parents still had to work. However, the article does clarify that she was really just looking for a draft, so I believe she would have helped/accommodated any kids that had trouble with it.

I mean...part of being a kid in a civilized society is having the freedom to be a little oblivious. I don’t like the noblesse oblige of looking at some impoverished/morally backward society and doing the whole “you know, they really APPRECIATE what they have and take pleasure in the right things.” I want every child…

Yup teacher sounds totally reasonable here. Like nothing about this assignment sounds like it needed to be done in school. The only legit complaints would be from kids without access to computers or the internet, and I hope she’d accommodate those students.

This article makes me think of Serena’s legs on the cover of Sports Illustrated for winning Sportsperson of the year and of all the dumb subsequent articles that critique her for her body instead of giving her accolades for her accomplishments. Perhaps she’d be sexier if she limited herself to 10 mins of light…

“the recent grad of Moody Bible Institute” is “serious about finding himself a woman,” but he’ll be keeping things PG until a special gal puts a ring on it. Renoe “says he’s still going to wait for his honeymoon to tear up his v-card.”

No, it’s usually a physical thing or a truck. Like, the actor orders the Kogi BBQ truck to come feed everyone on the last day, or it’s a jacket with the name of the show. If it’s clothes or a blanket, they tend to be pretty high quality. The best jackets I have are from productions and when I looked them up, they were…

Longtime person in the industry, former crew member. I’ve seen it happen a bunch of times. Maybe he’s different... But usually scratchers are code for “no wrap gift.”

Once upon a time, I bought custom-printed pencils from Lillian Vernon as part of A christmas gift box. They said, YO DAWG I HEARD U LIKE PENCILS and THATS BOLL SHEET. RIP and thanks, Lillian.

It's a long read, but this 45-year-old article is the best primer I’ve found of the role of guns in US history and culture. I highly recommend it.

It’s the guns. And the liars who keep telling the stupid it ISN’T the guns.

It’s not “the government”. It’s rural and exurban white people. Come on, folks, let’s be honest about who is at fault here.

Erm, no AP story reports the precise home location of criminals or victims.

Am I supposed to believe that the AP doesn’t obey its own style book?

This is what happens when states are allowed to legislate every step of a completely legal procedure. Abortion is legal? Okay! Let’s shut down every clinic that provides safe abortions, and those who aren’t shut down let’s stand outside and threaten the workers and the patients, and even sometimes kill those workers…

I agree. However, I read an article about boundaries and teens once. And the testing the boundaries thing isn’t so much about wanting to drink, do drugs, have sex etc but about challenging authority as they naturally come into adulthood. It’s a natural process and impulse to test boundaries and authority because kids…