I know she does a lot of good and I generally like everything she produces (and also her book club picks) but I can’t get that image of her being all “Don’t you know who I am?!” out of my head when her husband was pulled over for drunk driving. 

If you can watch the one on Starz, check it out. I’ve found it to be a much better documentary. India sounds very rehearsed in some comments but they have a lot of cult experts sharing their opinion and explaining the process of brain washing people which was interesting for me. Also, you can see in the Starz…

THANK YOU! I work at a small private university. We do not have state of the art rock climbing walls and any of the silly things that are rumored to exist. We built a new science building a few years ago because our science department was growing and was located in the crumbling basement of another building.

Yep, I ask “How long will it take to finish” when they are in the middle of a video or a game and sometimes the answer is “Five minutes?” and other times they’re like “We just started! 45 minutes?” and I have to say no. But figuring out the estimated time it will take to finish always works. I usually let them finish…

For real, this whole she-bang is not at all what I’d envisioned at any point of parenting. But I will also say that on my days with them, it’s still easier doing it all myself rather than doing it all myself while some lazy toad sits on the couch playing on his phone. I know he’s probably on his phone somewhere but…

I can’t imagine taking care of two kids on my own. I mean, I’m divorced so I do it half the week but then they go to their dad’s and I take a big sigh of relief and clean my bathroom. And also they are older so they don’t need diaper changes. I know Mindy can afford help but man. Applause to her and all of the other…

Everyone in my neighborhood walks to school. So there was one instance when I did loudly correct someone else’s kids. There was no adult with them and two of the older boys had stolen a younger girl’s lunchbag and were throwing it over her head. They were terrible at throwing so it kept going into the street where one…

I’d argue that it’s Mother’s Day or Office Christmas Party which are both mindless “phone it in” roles for her. I doubt she’d trash talk a Bateman movie to Bateman so I’ll say Mother’s Day. The Yellow Bird one is probably one of those where she was somewhat refreshed because she wasn’t asked to play another version of…

I think the problem has a few different layers.

I keep it on as background noise when I’m doing stuff around the house and my kids are nearby but the Kardashian one almost broke me. The valet parking lot for her 8 fancy little cars and scooters? And she’s just like 2 years old or something? I saw a $500+ high chair in the garage as a spare and I just couldn’t…

Yes, I completely identify with Anna. So try-hard. Physical late bloomer. A little bit of leadership and I went power happy.

Thank you! That helps to hear. I also hear you on the drinking and the lack of desire to exercise. This year just sucks. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Girl. I feel you. So much. SO MUCH. I feel very afraid of being let go because I can’t do my work to the level I want to do it. I like my job for the most part. I enjoy the work that I do. It brings me joy and to just . . . not be able to concentrate on it sucks. And then it makes me afraid I’ll be laid off. Or not…

I agree about the zoom list! I created a whole list of the zooms for my 7th grader and my 3rd grader - meeting ID’s and passwords and it came in so handy the first week because they were relying on kids to use Canvas to log into zoom and that connection went down so you had to log into zoom directly. Having the list…

I have two kids (3rd grade and 7th grade) and I’m divorced so when the kids are with me, I am the only adult. I can’t afford to hire a tutor or anyone to help out. I received special permission to work from home during the first three days of the week when I have them because someone needs to be around to help them…

Thank you! You too. I mean, I work at a college so they want me on site because my college is in session so I get the worry but I also work at a college and so I have to take the good of that with the bad. My sister is a nurse and her husband works in food so they’ve both been working full-time this whole time. My…

I think though that the idea that someone who isn’t doing what you’re doing is “stupid” is part of the issue though? I mean, there are things that are clearly unsafe. Huge groups of unmasked people is absolutely unsafe.

Absolutely happening! In my area in almost all of the school districts you could pick if your child was going to go online-only straight from the beginning of the school year or “hybrid” which means that depending upon the number of cases, your kid would be in school or online a certain number of days per week. The…

True. All different. But it’s not like Jameela really had to come out fighting. And I really like Jameela! I’m not like anti-jameela or anything. If she’d asked around she’d have talked to preggos like you and preggos like me and been like “Hmm, maybe this isn’t a body shaming thing?” and saved her anger for something…

Agreed. I’ve had two kids and I loved wearing things that were like this. It felt good. I don’t know why, I’m not scentist. I wasn’t trying to compress anything or not look pregnant, it just felt nice to have some additional support. I was hugely pregnant in the summer and having something to prevent thigh rub was…