I have to say that Malia started maturing very early. I think she has looked much older than her age for the last few years. My daughter is the same age as she, and looks significantly younger even though she is also tall.

I would just like to join the chorus of there is no wrong reason to have an abortion. It's a choice, period, and should remain that way. On a personal level, I get a little irritated when I hear stories of women who have ample access to birth control, but don't use it, and then have multiple abortions. That's just…

I don't think FB allows you to change your birthdate. The profile would have to be deleted (no easy task) and a new one created.

Man, I'm so grateful I went off of mine when I got pregnant. Both my ob/gyn and my psych encouraged me to stay on them (well, maybe not encouraged, but they definitely did not discourage me) and I didn't want to. Pregnancy was tough (mood swings!), and I had post-partum pretty bad, but I managed to nurse her for 6…

Really? This is a question? I wear a clean bra every single day unless I only had it on for a few hours the day before. I am totally shocked that it seems to be a pretty normal thing on here that people wear a bra several times (a week? two weeks? a month?) without washing. Wow.

Jesus-friendly, just not Jesus-exclusive

This has been a great convo, tgl! It's great to run across a kind of kindred spirit on GM, where generally people freak out if they think you go to church. I'm almost never on Jez, I'm talking mostly about Gawker, ugh. It's so hard for most people to reconcile a progressive liberal with Christianity, because most…

I use a colander and paper towels. Nothing wrong with a little moisture on the lettuce. The dressing spreads better that way.

I know right? Aren't salad spinners the stupidest thing ever? They don't work for shit.

I hate salad spinners, even for salad. What a waste of space. They don't really spin enough water out, and then you have to find a place for the damn two pieces to dry. Here's the official hassle-free way to wash bras and other delicates: nylon mesh bags that zip closed, cold water, delicate cycle on the machine, and…

I personally give no fucks about Satan. I don't really believe in hell. I think there is evil in the world, but I think that evil is man-made. God gave us free will, and that includes the free will to be evil assholes. I'm not sure why bad things happen ~ still can't get my head around that, it's an ongoing process. I…

That would be my denomination. The comma is a big symbol for us now. We have pins that are just a big ol' comma. You would lerve it. ;-)

LOL, yeah, I could see Her doing that! The intent is to base our religion, our lives, our church, our morals and ethics, on Jesus' message BUT, also on what is occurring today, and not what was the social norm in 0 AD (or back in the Old Testament days) where there was slavery, chattel, eye for an eye ~ all kinds of…

...and that's what's wrong with the Mormon church and most of so-called Christianity in this country. I do consider myself a Christian, but my denomination's most current motto is "God is still speaking," meaning, STFU about the Bible having all the rules, it was written 2,000+ years ago for God's sake.

Willy Wiggy. My daughter's is Frosting Wisteria! LOL...

Did you see the other replies to my comment? Anna Breslaw re-worded what had previously been a confusing sentence.

Makes sense now! To be fair, I haven't read the book, but Levy's review does make Wolf sound pretty nutty.

I read the review. Could you elaborate on Ariel Levy's intimation that women are nothing more than a host body for the vagina? Because I wasn't getting that from this review at all.

I went back to work after two months, and pumped. She was fed a combo of breast milk and formula during the day, and I nursed her a few times morning and night when I was home. When she was about 4 months old, she started looking around when I was nursing. She didn't want her face at my chest much. I kept at it for…

The Vincent Thomas Bridge scares the shit out of me. I can't even stand to look at it, let alone drive on it. It's just so... high up and bare looking, just otherworldly to me. If I were going to jump off a bridge, that would be the last one I'd pick, because I'd never have the guts to drive onto it. The fact that he…