My mechanical engineering roommate was told flat out that she was taking a place in school that “rightfully belonged to a man”, because men are breadwinners and women just go to college to get their MRS degrees. I was an industrial engineer so I was spared that, because IE (imaginary engineering) was the catch-all for…

I’ve never traveled in Europe without a car because I’m train-schedule-impaired. I’m in therapy...

First thought: good lord I hope she has a passport because what if her state decides to disenfranchise a bunch of people with voter ID laws???? What has this election cycle done to me?

Yes, Ethan in Wisconsin was just a clown in search of a circus, and he attached himself to Sanders. It could just as easily have been Trump.

Sorry, but I disagree. Sanders, or any candidate for that matter, does not exist in a vacuum. If his campaign spawns this type of behavior, and he does nothing to guide it back within reasonable limits, then it reflects badly on him. He can’t go on setting forth great ideas and ideals and expect every thinking person…

Drumline. Oh, you poor, poor dear.

It goes away only partially. We had a little gesture we used for “turning down the volume” with our kiddo, because even when you adore them and would jump in front of traffic for them, they can still be loud, annoying, and total little shits at times.

Left coast.

I use a burner ring outdoors and a Dutch oven, but my MIL uses a very tall pot and about 3" of oil, plus, as Mr. V says, vents and windows.

Order some House Autry hush puppy mix from amazon. There are no decent hush puppies where I’m at in Florida and I have to make my own.

The perfect accompaniment to pork barbecue. Seasoned and fried nuggets of cornmeal batter. Scoop about a third of your fork with pulled pork, a third of your fork with cole slaw. (Don’t fill the whole fork, what are you, a barbarian?) Place bit in mouth. Follow with succulent bite of hush puppy. Masticate and…

Shirtless Rick Rossovich. That’s all I came to say. Carry on.

My friend’s husband is a plumber, and they just had to sell their 36-foot boat. Oh, too bad...oh wait. They sold the 36er so they could buy a 45-foot boat. Granted, he owns the business, but still, he’s a plumber, he makes bank, and he can’t get apprentices. My son tells me he wants to be a plumber (or electrician,…

We just gave her a dress. And a lotta liquor....

My bf and I lived together and built a house together but never married. We had an “un-nup”, which more or less said that if we ever broke up, we would split up our stuff in a particular way. We did break up eventually, and he honored the un-nup by buying me out of my share of the house. Honestly it made the break up…

I read last year’s article on children who have had to break from their toxic moms, and honestly, this mother’s day my only wish is that I don’t screw up my son so badly that one day he’s writing about having to cut ties with me. Wanna go hug him, now-ish.

I had barfed and barfed and barfed during my c-section, so when they brought my little bundle over and said, “Mom, kiss your baby!” the only thought going through my mind was, “I don’t want his first impression of me to be vomit-breath.”. Totally irrational, yes, but there it was. Regardless, he was whisked off to…

Agreed and my delivery, too, was all off script. It was also very traumatic for all involved (I was in the hospital another nine days). Husband and I ended up in an argument over nothing. We inspected our argument and realized we had both just been through an ordeal, we were scared, we were unprepared, and it just…

“ If you only see one Davis movie, make it All About Eve, and if you only see one Crawford movie, it ought to be Mildred Pierce”

Bingo. Keep the base scared to leave their Fox news boxes. Afraid to let their kids out to run around the block or play with other kids (even though most kids are attacked by someone they know). Afraid that SOMEONE is going to take their jobs (even though it’s the corporations that shipped their job overseas and the…