“Whenever I wear heels I feel like a giant.” I feel your pain!

“We are 100% going there.”

Oh, 2013. In some ways, you seem almost comfortingly familiar. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to stop confusing the members of One Direction with the members of The Wanted. Maybe one of the New York Post’s resolutions should have been to stop confusing “sex” and “sexual assault.” Judging by their cover today, they’ve got a bit of work to do.

The purpose behind a nurse-in is to highlight the ordinariness of breastfeeding and call attention to the absurdity in trying to ban it. I am wholeheartedly in support of that — who decided that the only breasts that can be displayed in public are ones contained in a bra from Victoria’s Secret? — but aren’t “nurse-ins” just a little silly?

Pretty sure that’s universal.

There’s so much to dislike about adolescence, and braces are no exception, but teenagers in Southeast Asia have reportedly been hitting up the black market for fake braces for a long time, paying about $100 to look like metal-mouth geeks. The fad has been alive and well for several years and doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon, unlike Furbies, Tamagotchis, and other things that once ran the lives of youngsters everywhere.

And you thought you were cool for actually liking the taste of broccoli.

Today in CEO shakeups: Lisa Gersh, who was named the CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia in May 2012, is stepping down after a lackluster third quarter, in which the company “lost $50.9 million, compared with a loss of $9.7 million a year earlier.” Ouch. Those kinds of numbers would be enough to encourage a change in management, but there is another factor that may have contributed to Gersh’s departure from the company.

On Friday, as the coverage of the horrifying events at Sandy Hook Elementary School unfolded, we wrote about the teachers who risked their lives to protect their students. As more information has emerged, many initial media reports had to be corrected (including ours), but one thing that hasn’t changed are the stories of heroism and selflessness on the part of school staff.

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut this morning, which is being called “the worst school shooting in recent U.S. history,” is horrific, disturbing and upsetting in equal measure. Students who were in the school when the violence occurred were later interviewed by reporters and recounted the actions of many of their teachers once they learned that a shooter was in the building.