michelleaforeman

No Such Thing As a Fish is great for trivia buffs - it's four writers for the British panel show QI and they share their favourite facts from the last seven days. It's funny, intelligent, genuinely interesting and it'll make you seem brilliant at your next dinner party!

If you want to laugh out loud until you cry, My Dad Wrote a Porno is the podcast for you. It's a youngish man, Jamie Morton, reading his sexagenarian father's self-published erotica, the excellently titled Belinda Blinked, to his two friends Alice Levine and James Cooper. Belinda… Read More

hands down my dog - it's nice to have a "roommate", she gives me snuggles and she makes me feel safe at night. also, though this isn't a tangible thing, a routine also helps ensure you don't get overwhelmed with chores, because unless you're the dirty girl from that friends episode,… Read More

Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon! He was suave, witty, always saved the day... *swoon*

I've always loved to cook, and I do know my way around a kitchen, but above all I love a good cookbook. I have amassed quite a few over the years, and reading cookbooks has really upped my game. Many cookbooks are filled with indispensable tips (e.g. never drain out all the pasta… Read More

The Newsroom, season 1 episode 3 - where Jim goes to find Maggie on the roof after he realizes something's not right and she might have had a panic attack. That moment. It perfectly illustrates the feelings that are developing between the two characters. And it melts my heart every… Read More

i buy golf pencils and keep them in a cup on my desk. that way, when my ever-prepared and alert high school students forget their writing utensils, they can grab a small pencil that i'm not worried about having accidentally taken as they're quite inexpensive (and the kids tend not… Read More

When I was a teenager, I was listening to old jazz and easy listening music (Sinatra, Miles Davis, Peggy Lee, Billie Holiday) and felt smugly superior about it. I also started drinking coffee when I was 14 or 15, so my email became coffeejazzchick@hotmail.com. I still cringe when… Read More

i am terrified of fish, or basically anything that lives under the sea (yes, that includes dolphins). when i was little, i couldn't take a bubble bath for fear that tiny fish would come out with the running water and i wouldn't be able to see them in the bath. can't even look at aquariums...… Read More