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My bedroom is peacock, too (B. Moore's Dark Teal), so naturally, I love the color! Your bedding makes me want to find a little bit of light pink for my own room.

You have the cutest hair, Fay Wolf!

(New York, North Carolina? Seems like an awful lot of editorial misses these days.)

Unfortunate that she's selling "Don't forget to be awesome" prints in her Etsy shop without referencing John Green. Poor form.

All kudos and empathy to Josh. However, this write-up of his work seems to validate bullying fat kids by suggesting that making their lives unpleasant will make them decide to lose weight. Social scientists do not find that increased weight stigma results in increased weight-loss success, and we do know that stigma is in and of itself a health risk for people in stigmatized groups. When we say that Josh was "finally driven to the breaking point" by bullying, we give bullying agency to effect a change we think is positive. I think Josh got very lucky by finding paleo eating instead of any number of less healthy sets of eating guidelines (and gender may be an issue here; teenage girls struggling with their weight and all the baggage related to it might well be less comfortable with eating paleo because of the way it embraces appetite), and he seems like an awesome human—I hate the idea that this article, and the world at large, thinks it's okay to bully him if it results in weight loss. It's not, and many other fat children who are tormented for their sizes aren't blessed with the access, abilities, and know-how that are clearly serving Josh well.

This looks adorable! Ideally, though, for longest life, cosmetics don't get stored in the bathroom at all. I have mine out, too, but on my dresser top in my bedroom—I use Mason jars (my sister smashed a couple of my glass wire-top jar lids; these lidless jars are great for brushes), a beaker, and and a collection of little thrifted trays and bowls, mostly pewter.

PS: I used DiorShow for years, and it's real good, but YSL Volume Effet Faux Cils and Lancôme Hypnose Drama are both better, I think.

Wow, the light in here is incredible. The Revere Pewter looks great, too—I love the way it shifts from true grey to taupey under the flood of sun. Sweet place, Molly!

The single most important thing in making vegetables with any kind of bitterness palatable is fat. I grew up in the '80s, and it was all steaming all the time, and as a child I really did not care for anything even faintly bitter: I did like spinach, but kale, chard, broccoli rabe, escarole, endive? Forget it. Now I love all those things. I cook them with cheese, in butter or cream, stewed with bacon ends; I make them into raw salads with a nice garlic vinaigrette. They are delicious. People have this idea that adding fat (and thus calories) "cancels out" the nutritional value of vegetables. That idea is both wrong and deeply counterproductive—in fact, dark leafy greens (and other vegetables too!) are full of vitamins that are fat-soluble but not water-soluble, meaning if you don't eat 'em with fat you're not getting their full nutritional punch. It sounds like your boys like vegetables lots of ways (three out of the four ways you mention you've prepared dark leafy greens you say they find acceptable-to-delicious). Learn to live with the fact that they do not like kale juice, is my suggestion, given that they do not sound in danger of never eating a dark leafy green. And maybe look into Ellyn Satter's thoughts on feeding children vegetables.

I just did a quick spruce-up renovation on a 1920s apartment of which I am also only the third owner. My electrician and contractor also giggled. I can't afford to do the kitchen yet, so am living with it as-is for now—but from what I've seen of my wiring, and what I can tell about the plumbing from the rabbit warren of piping behind the kitchen components, I agree that putting in a whole new kitchen might well be easier and cheaper. I'm hoping I can pick up some tips from this series—looking forward.

Hi Heather! Just wanted to say that I moved in to my new apartment today, and here I am, revisiting your place, hoping to bite your style.