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...recently eaten in a restaurant. The atmosphere of relaxed conversation and domesticity far surpassed the hyper buzz of eatery ambience, and we chose to view the bust fuse and lack of light as simply an extreme version of a traditional, dim setting. Even our willingness to sip wine from mugs could not detract from the dinner-party tone of adult independence...
...students’ versions of a dinner gathering—without the luxury of a dining table—but its absence only adds to the laid-back mood of joviality. Dinner parties seem to encourage generosity far more than any other event, and guests’ gifts of wine or dessert generate a communal pride in the collectively assembled meal...
...image of a giddily drunk parent may have had some appeal when it started, once the war against Betty Crocker had been won and when irreverent mommy bloggers were confessing their sins as far as the mouse could reach. There was something liberating about the eyebrow-cocked, white-wine-swilling posture of the saucy parenting memoir. It felt fresh, a rebuke to the perfectionism displayed every day by the overly tidy mothers on morning television. (See TIME's parenting covers...
...some backtracking from that freewheeling attitude appears to have started well before the Schuler tragedy. Wilder-Taylor, for one, posted this on her website, Baby on Bored, on July 21: "Today marks 60 days on my sober calendar ... Wine, for me, was a friend, a lifestyle and (I thought) a choice." Famously tipsy mommy blogger Rachael Brownell's new book, Mommy Doesn't Drink Here Anymore, which hit stores Aug. 1, chronicles her first year of parenting sober. (Disclosure: I am the editor in chief of Babble.com, where Brownell was a blogger a couple of years ago, and my first...
Some swappers use a padlock to keep their jewelry and tax returns safely out of sight. But Ed Kushins, founder of HomeExchange.com said that in 17 years in the business, he has never received a report of theft or malicious damage. If there are issues such as wine stains and other mishaps, they are handled privately, though he has been asked to intervene about the occasional scratched car, for example...