Eliana Osborn

Is anyone else with me on this? White foods are NASTY.

I’ve developed a fast and furious passion for the new Daily Show host, Trevor Noah.

1. Write a damn letter.

Help.

We take weekend turns. He does vacations and summers. Literally. He takes them away. It is great.

I get how we want to make our kids successful and everything, right from the start. Feeding into the pressure, here’s the tagline from Starling’s company: “The world’s first word-tracking system that can improve your child’s trajectory for life.”

My sister Liz is full of wisdom, like my favorite quote I’ve shared with practically everyone I know: “Every pair of underwear has two good sides.”

The most important things my mother taught me included work from Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Wham! and Whitney Houston.

Really, you should thank me. I’m just protecting your future self.

Size, like age and salary and whatever else, is just a number. Pretending numbers don’t measure things isn’t helpful. I’m 38 years old: That isn’t good or bad, but it IS different from being 18 or 50.