*to the tune of god bless the USA*

Oh, and also this:

Someone who contributes to groupthink said when she first became a contributor Pinkham apparently took umbrage with one of her posts and left her a crap ton of crazy messages. The kicker is he apparently knew what he was doing since he kept on sending the messages on a dismissed thread so that she and only she could…

One nice thing about having a chronic illness is that I am forced to go to the doctor all the time. “Nice” in the sense that I get checked out routinely. “Crappy” in all other ways.

Over 50, actually, and if you have any weird symptoms at all, don’t let your doctor dismiss you for being too young to have colon cancer. My husband was diagnosed at age 34, stage 3c. He got very lucky that they caught it before it was even worse. He had to pretty much force his doc to let him have a colonoscopy.

Ladies, do your self-checks too! I know a woman who’s going through radiation right now; she found a lump on her own that a mammogram didn’t detect.

My mom was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at 45. We had no family history of it and it was caught via mammogram. After brutal rounds of surgery, radiation, and chemo, my mom has now been cancer free for 18 years. Thank you, Taylor, for reminding people to get checked even when they feel just fine. Sending…

THIS!!!!

I had a table once whisper loudly to their children, "if you don't go to college, you'll end up waiting tables like her..." while I was prebussing their table.

Along the same lines as Becca's story about people making assumptions about educational backgrounds, I waited tables at an Italian chain restaurant that falls between Olive Garden and Macaroni Grill in terms of cost/quality the summer between college and law school. Our clientele was generally pretty decent, and as a…

The reason some cake shops have been taken to court or been shamed in the news is because the same-sex couples requesting wedding cakes were requesting nothing special —- they just wanted a wedding cake, such as the shops make all the damn time. If you refuse to do the exact same service for a customer — services that…

This is fantastic! I love this guy:

Meanwhile, some Christian bakers are going to gay neighborhoods and giving out free cupcakes to show support. http://t.co/v5m4IcvlBN

Use a baby spoon to eat ice cream or other soft desserts. Smaller bites=more time to savor food=greater feeling of satisfaction.

This is why the term “microaggression” is a very real thing, even if people roll their eyes at it.... It’s all the cumulative little things, the background radiation, that adds up to the message of You Are Not Wanted or You Are Insufficient.

I totally see your point, and I think having a non-confrontational attitude when discussing issues like this does help, but I don’t really think “not meaning it that way” should be an acceptable excuse. It’s the prejudices we don’t realize we have which are the most dangerous, and as such, I think it’s the nature of…

I didn’t speak to him for 5 days (difficult, because I was still his assistant during that time). I talked to friends. I talked to colleagues. I talked to my therapist.

Reading other people's stories reminded me of another one. So, I have a house that I have owned longer than I've known my husband. His name has never been listed on this house in any way, shape, or form. I've always had the house insured through State Farm.

“How are you, Countess v Fingerbang?”
“Man, I got a raging yeast infection and my cat vomited in my mouth last night. How are YOU, random male colleague?”