My toddler has started to talk out of nowhere with a slight British lilt and now I’m learning that my husband did the same thing as a kid… genetics is destiny

This is actually a critical invention if you’ve ever had a goldfish, those fuckers love flipping upside down

Mine: Slow roasted salmon Skirt steak Hamburg steak Chicken wings Taco night Pantry meal (tinned fish pasta or bean stew) Rice or bread as carb, sometimes I’ll make a soup or small salad I’ll swap in chili, curry stew, and bolognese now that it’s getting colder

Canned turtle meat (and mock turtle meat) was real…

Whenever people talk about how wonderful and practical The Joy of Cooking is, how it taught them the basics, I’m like ???

I always found Sontag’s Against Interpretation unsatisfying because it posits a binary between the pure realm of sensual perception vs the analytical realm of interpretation. When feelings and perceptions ARE interpretation — a work of art can “feel” cold because of its formal properties.

My daughter described her foot falling asleep as “there is seltzer in my feet”

I listened to Call Her Daddy once back when it was still the two chicks and it was literally just maenads moaning incoherently… I would never have guessed it would become an object of Democratic Capture

San Francisco should be a romantic city but it’s not

Rereading a book from childhood. Unlike Montgomery’s Anne series, which I loved to death, Emily unsettled me. In her world, ordinary people are never kind, always petty and cruel; the only real love is the Freudian sticky kind of crazed single parents living in the past. Emily’s writing has a vindictive quality unlike Anne’s imagination— a form of revenge against those who have wronged her. Not as pleasant, but probably a more honest account of the artistic spirit…

Absolutely insane how much modern parenting advice involves explaining abstract therapeutic principles to 5 year olds