I made this for my vegan son to eat at Thanksgiving, and even the carnivores loved it: https://www.deliciouseveryday.com/mushroom-wellington/

You can spend a day in Providence, then the rest of the time in Newport or Narragansett or Bristol. My family has owned a B & B in Narragansett for decades. If you are a history buff, the Newport mansions are a must-see.

Last November, we stayed at Hotel San Marco. I thought it was nearly perfect: low price point, great location, excellent breakfast, and very clean (if small-ish and boring-ish) rooms.

So my 9yo did Pet Store Math and loved, loved, loved running his virtual pet store. He's now asking for something similar that does "all of life" -- insurance, rent/mortgage, groceries, etc. Does something like this exist? Ideally not just workbook lessons (although a workbook is OK) but something that has you run a virtual life, be responsible for your decisions, etc.? Thanks!

I never see movies, but there was so much praise for this we went. I loved it. Spoilers in white below. There was so much suspense. Literally until the last minute, I thought it was possible that she could die--I wouldn't have been surprised if some tribal leader saw her in the sand and shot her.

That's the high school I went to . . . I've been thinking about it all day.

I don't know if my experience was typical, but even in an AP American History class, World War II meant Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, US internment camps, and nuclear weapons, and that's it. I had no idea whatsoever about Britain's experience in WWII until I was an adult and started reading on my own.

I've had this happen and I've told them that I normally resell books and they sent me a book with a lower resale value, so I'd like some of my purchase price refunded. I've had Amazon credit be 3 or 5 dollars a few times that this has happened.

Not an expert, but my own experience: exercise burns calories, but not that many. So my 1hr morning walk burns 200 calories, which is something, but doesn't compensate for me pigging out all day. I think a lot of people delude themselves into thinking that if they exercise, they should be able to eat what they want and lose weight. That was not my experience.

Here's what I want: summer appropriate casual shoes that can be worn with socks--the really short kind. What won't look stupid?

http://news.gw.edu/?p=393 As much as I have always been opposed to the methodology, I'm kind of sad to learn what had been going on behind the scenes.

I was going to say dark chocolate covered strawberries. These are beautiful, fancy, and quite healthy if you go easy on the chocolate. Another option is to freeze fruit, run it through a good food processor, and serve as "ice cream."

I love listening to audio books, but I need something to do while listening. I tried cross stitch. (meh) I tried knitting. (epic fail) I tried coloring. (meh) Any ideas for me? (Don't suggest I clean. Seriously.) Maybe some mindless online games? Something else I haven't thought of?

The bedrooms: messy, but not actionable. Kitchen and living room: assuming that food on the floor had been there awhile, CPS should investigate but only do something if the investigation warrants. Once you read about the bathrooms: CPS should have gotten the kids out IMMEDIATELY.

I guess I don't consider outright racism, for example, to be part of the American political spectrum. You can disagree about issues such as affirmative action, immigration, reforming inner-city education, etc., without being a racist. I would think you'd need a party or group saying, "We support X because those people are genetically inferior" before I'd consider racism part of the political spectrum. (Which is not to say that there are not racists in American politics.)

:confused1: Uh . . . just to clarify . . . my statement about easily living with political differences does not apply to that. I was thinking in terms of the basic American political spectrum, from Tea Party to Progressive, or however you want to label it.

I think it depends on what kind of political beliefs you told. Dh and I are opposites and do just fine. (Actually, I'd feel impoverished without the interesting discussions. There's no spouting platitudes and getting away with it in this house--if you make a political statement, you better be prepared to defend it!) But neither of us is really 'partisan' in the sense of focusing on personalities or party loyalty. If you tend to view political issues as a continuum (such as: a continuum between protecting the environment at any cost to the economy sliding all the way to protecting the economy at any cost to the environment, with people arrayed at different points along that continuum), you can be just fine in a "mixed marriage."

I also had an 8yo still having trouble with the 'r' sound. I consulted with a friend who is a speech therapist and she suggested that we take the online class that a speech therapist would take to learn to help people with the 'r' sound from northernspeech.com. We did that (it was $24) and began working with our son. We're about half-way through and he is about half-way better, so I am feeling good about this decision so far.

I don't understand the mindset that wants to answer this question by considering the weather in one's own area or one's own perception of the weather. This is a question to be answered by scientists who study the issue.

Three times?!? I'd file a complaint.

skinnytaste is just . . . amazing. I can't believe how good her recipes are.

If you time it right, there are "repositioning" cruises that are super-cheap. It would be great fun, but it would also take you +/- 14 days.

Sometimes if I am researching something (the last thing was homemade ravioli!) I will find five recipes I like and plan on using aspects of each one, so I'll pin all of them in a row.

Don't want to go into details in public, but had an experience so horrible with them, due to their desire to cut costs, that I would have sued them, but you can't.

It also depends on *which* precincts are reporting . . . if a candidate is winning in an unlikely precinct, you can pretty much call it.