Eliana Osborn

I’m a sucker for an interesting woman, so Notorious RBG is obviously my sort of book.

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

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.

What’s That Smell? Sniffing Out Weird House Odors

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

Sometimes the nicest kids turn into whole new people when they come over to your house.

I’m not there yet. But I need to be honest—I’m closer to 40 than any other multiple of five.

Perfectly Karaoke Or Lip Sync A Song: You may think this is less important than the other items on the list. You are wrong.

I cried every single day of my life until I was 18 years old. I did not know this was abnormal.

I’m terrified of wrongful imprisonment. To be the only one who knows the truth and have to live every day in a cell, wondering, why, god, why? [...] Sitting hooked up for gadgets to monitor every aspect of my mind and body, in a small room without any distraction, I see how a person could lose herself — or the truth — for a moment.