We live along the Gulf Coast of Florida home to many air force bases including the largest one in terms of land mass, and others that are home to special fighting squadrons (whatever you call them). Since it’s Florida, we also have no basements! Whoopee!

I read the headline as “five years after Trump EXISTS.” We can only hope.

Try a woman in a guitar shop. I was completely ignored and I’m not unattractive, or — god forbid — fat. And I’m white. Got everything going for me. Can’t imagine what a person of color or a woman of color would experience.

I make a purple velvet cake with prunes and pecans with cream cheese frosting. No food coloring involved. Let’s make it happen!

Like a nut shit from a squirrel.

Sam Edelman Felicia. They are around $100, but they last, have a fairly decent arch support, and are comfortable (for me — even with my unsightly right foot bunion) all day. My black suede pair is 2 years old now and I wear them several times a week. They still look new.

I remember watching a video of Annie Lennox on TV while I was giving birth to my daughter. That was weird.

Wait until they’re in 5th grade. Then you can expose them to all sorts of cool music. In addition to the rock’n roll classic groups, I got my kids hooked on Joan Armatrading, Patty Griffin, Ryan Adams, Neutral Milk Hotel, Joe Henry (Trampoline), Wilco (Summerteeth), among many others.

I lost my twin brother to suicide 25 years ago. People helped by being there, not judging me for any reaction, understanding that grief is a loooooong, never-ending actually, process that takes a different path for everyone. Now my friends help by bringing up his name on occasion. It helps that they have fond memories…

All I know is that if I present healthy food to my husband PLATED, he will eat it happily. (I am a very good cook.)

He and Brittany Spears should to get together for a Whiteness Wonderland show. Neither is untalented. Both need a class in self-aware.

Topshop! My adult daughter and I just returned from our first trip to London, and Topshop was one of the stops on her list. We went and were overwhelmed (by the sheer size of the store) and underwhelmed (by the quality and design). Best thing that happened there was that as I was waiting for my daughter to finish…

I buy my one-piece swimsuits from Garnet Hill during their winter sales. Cute, non-matronly styles that provide bum coverage and flattering details at an affordable price (even at full price). Their swimsuits generally run true to size, so I haven’t found the need to size up like with most brands.

Don’t do it.

No! You heat up a skillet on high, add a big hunk of butter, throw in the cold spaghetti and toss it around until the pasta is starting to get crispy and brown. Set the heat to low, then add well beaten eggs, parm, salt and pepper (the quantities depend on how much pasta you’re cooking). Stir gently until the eggs are…

Yeah I remember even as a child in the 70's thinking — this “flesh” crayon is weird and also a shitty color. Now I wish bandaids would give up the ghost because you’re not fooling anyone anyways. Make them the color of duct tape already.

My daughter married in 2015. Her husband’s family was in the Midwest, and our family is in the South. They held the wedding at a family-owned campground. The venue was free, other than the tenting and lights we purchased, about $400. We rented an RV and two nearby rentals for our family for 5 days, about $2000 — an…

We brought home a male ginger kitten for our 8-year-old ginger male manx. We didn’t know how he’d do, but he really took that kitten on as his own. He’d hold the kitten down and groom him, protected him (unnecessarily and violently) from our dogs, and they spent most of their days together until the kitten died at age…

Sleep and beer are my favorite things of all time.

I replied below re: Lexapro...but I also use a white noise machine. Dohm/Sleep Sense. Once you use it for a while, you train yourself to get into sleep mode as soon as it’s turned on.