Eliana Osborn

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

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.

1. Write a damn letter.

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

I look tired when I stay up too late. I also look tired if I get eight hours of sleep.

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.

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

My main reason for doing reading testing, enduring a bus ride to a field trip about weapons engineering, and other thrills? Stalking.

A haircut is a whole lot cheaper than therapy or tattoos or a round-the-world plane ticket.