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So strange - About a year ago, eggs were absurdly expensive for a brief time and sometimes the store would sell out. But quite a while ago, the prices went back to a little more than they had been and there didn't seem to be any shortage.

Definitely miss Michael Vincenzo. He retired to pursue more conventional employment

No clue what triggered it, but about 20 years ago, I spontaneously developed the ability to control my eating. If I felt like a pigout, I could do it and return to normal eating with no problem. I didn't have any difficulty with over-indulging at holidays. I starting pacing myself at meals so it would take me a half hour or so to eat. I wish I could share with people how I did it, but I really can't - any issues I had with food just sort of resolved.

Sure - "walk away and forget it happened " doesn't mean never see each other again. Dad coming out to his son would ameliorate the whole situation.

Agree completely. Everyone needs to walk away and forget it happened.

True enough - but what you're describing is inordinately complicated. To me. in that same situation, the simplest thing, that I could live with, would be to cut if off with the boy. However, the whole thing would leave enough of a taint that I would probably cut it off with dad as well and move on.

Doing the right thing doesn't always feel that good. This is one of those times.

Yes - great way to deal with timewasters.

I wondered about this too - I thought they were one and the same. Turns out they are slightly different. Clarified butter is melted butter with the milksolids removed. I'm sure any foodie has made clarified butter at home at least once in his/her life. With ghee, the milk solids are allowed to cook in the fat before they are separated - so ghee would taste more like brown butter.

I guess that confirms it.

MaxME must be Eastern European. He looks like Melania - pointed face, cheekbones.

I recommend reading REGENESIS: FEEDING THE WORLD WITHOUT DEVOURING THE PLANET by George Monbiot.

There are senior facilities for gays.

Dont forget - if there are no younger friends or family members, there are professional fiduciaries who can handle everything.

My husband and a couple of his friends are upset by the fact they they are invisible to younger men. A long time ago, I faced the fact that it is a stage of life that everyone has to negotiate, so it doesn't bother me a bit.

It isn't that he can't fit in, it's that he's stuck in a care facility. My mother-in-law lived in one of those "very nice" facilities. It looked like a luxury hotel, the food was terrific and they all hated it - they all just wanted to go home. When my father's health failed, we started looking for a home for him. We even had him try a one-week stay in a Prebyterian home - a "very nice" facility. He said none of the residents ever left their rooms or socialized with each other needless to say, he hated it.

Many years ago, in law school, I took an elective in healthcare law. One of the factoids I gleaned from that course was that our preference for the institutional model of senior care doesn't make any sense because home care costs far less and most seniors prefer to age in place. When my husband's mother needed care, they literally had to sell the family farm to pay for it. Two years of care in a high-end facility cost about $100k. I have known two guys who owned nursing home companies and they both were VERY well off - not just comfortable but wealthy. Just recently, I read that home care costs about half of what intitutional care costs. I have a friend who is 92 and he has someone who manages his financial affairs for him who he pays $50.00/hr and he has two part-time care givers and a cleaning lady. I keep a close eye on everything because I'm his attorney-in-fact and his trustee/executor.

It just isn't a problem for me, in fact I have the opposite problem - keeping weight on. My coach is fond of saying that I have the metabolism of a12-year-old. I've been on a strict regimen for my autoimmune problem, and my man tolde me I had to ease up on it because I had gotten too thin.

My husband and I talk about it with each other, but we haven't talked with any friends or family members about it. My family is utterly useless. My husband's sibs are our age or older. We had named my sister as our attorney in fact, our trustee and our executor, but I just don't think she will be reliable, so I'm having our plan amended. My investment adviser is really solid and I want to bring it up with him, but havent yet. Living with an autoimmune problem for the last 18 months has convinced me that I won't live forever, so we definitely nned to take more positive steps than we have.

Sounds tasty - loads of sodium, though.

His profile says his fees start at $180. That would be fine for me because I always hire for therapeutic. Knowing others' experiences, I would enjoy his massage, but I wouldn't even want a handjob.

I think I am most grateful for the people who have showed up in my life at crucial times and pointed the way. Because of them I have gone places I never would have imagined.

I've been on a special diet that doesn't include eggs - so I hadn't noticed the egg shortage.

Last year at the Thanksgiving table, I said I was grateful for good-looking men. Nobody said anything for a couple seconds and then they all started laughing. This year, I'm a year older and even more grateful for good-looking men.

He's been deeply involved with Exodus International and he's a big proponent of conversion therapy. His wife is a psychotherapist who does Christian psychotherapy and equates man-on-man sex with bestiality. As soon as the public eye fell on her because of her husband's rise, she took down her website. It isn't known for sure that he's an ex-gay, but quite a few people associated with Exodus International have later come out as gay. It is common for someone as energetically homophobic as he is to turn out to be a closeted gay. So, I'm not being sarcastic - someone who hates gays as passionately as he does may very well be gay himself.