Wait, what? My MD told me several years ago that I could take 3 Advil + 1 Tylenol together when I got these long-lasting headaches I get. So I did that for about 8 years until I got a liver-related test result that was a little alarming. Now, no more Tylenol (and my headaches are largely under control with Flonase…

Her mom is rocking that dress and necklace combo. I am blinded by her glory.

In fall and winter it's a spaghetti squash salad with sesame seeds and pickled ginger. The rest of the year, either green or fruit salad, usually with a little candied uncrystallized ginger. There's a theme.

Spaghetti squash is fun! I usually make this particular recipe because it's always a hit; I need to branch out more with it.

Going to the home of a friend who is a great cook. I have a few recipes I'm confident in and one is a spaghetti squash salad with sesame seeds and pickled ginger, so that's what I'm bringing. It'll be the first time Mr. Crony and I haven't gone out of town to his family's since we got together (2006) and I'm looking…

Ugh. I was pushed off the low dive by a female gym teacher when I was 10 or 11 and that was bad enough. It put me off swimming until college.

I just want to say thanks for signing up to donate, on behalf of all the potential recipients and their loved ones. I would if I could, but I'm just barely too old.

I'm thinking it's like a gingerbread house only....more thorough?

What novel is your kid reading? I used to read all the books my kids brought home whether they asked me to or not. Good times

Yeah, he's lucky :-)

I had breakfast for supper last Saturday! Waffles and applesauce.

Cheese plate. Eentsy bits of three kinds of cheese with a sliced apple and a dollop of pear preserves. I have been making one or two cheese plates a day for my partner during his recovery from a broken leg (because he is a cheese connoisseur and I don't have time to cook with all the other stuff I have to do for him…

Ha! I read your first post and thought, "Wonder if that person's in Portland?" Yeah, it was nasty here today. It would've taken more than a houseful of strangers to get me out.

Collaborative reading: It can be done! I read out loud to my partner most nights before sleepytime, usually from a book I've already read, because I am the fiction reader in the household (also I love to read aloud but it's no fun if no one is listening). He suggested this because he wanted to share that part of my…

Yes! Great movie and he deserves a Best Actor nom.

Back to the '70s...

I thought the Mirena was great for about a year, until I started bleeding between periods, and then bleeding more between periods, to the point that I was NOT bleeding one week a month. Turned out I had uterine fibroids. I had the Mirena removed in preparation for surgery, but just taking it out took care of the…

So much yes to this. Even postmenopausal women are still women! There are health issues related to menopause and to aging generally that could be addressed, as well as societal ageism towards women.

I have moles all over my back that have gotten bigger over the years; I've asked about them every few checkups and nobody has ever mentioned a skin map to me. Sheesh. I just noticed that one had gotten startlingly larger so I went to my PCP and she said they looked "interesting" and referred me to the dermatology…

And sorry for almost exactly repeating someone else's post. I lost my own mom to a different cancer when she was 52. And now I'm 56 and I'm sorry that you will have to miss all those years with your mother like I did.