This! My beloved pit was a rescue, & could become very agressive with any dog his size or larger. He was comically affectionate towards small dogs and could be bossed around by ALL cats, but couldn’t be close to any dog close to his size. Walks were a mess! I could be crossing the street, yelling about how he didn’t…

Indeed! That was NOT a fun scene!

I took my kids with me to see her at a festival a couple of years ago and it was a disaster. She was over an hour late and only got through two songs before they cut her sound. The crowd was super pissed & I was hustling to get the kids out of there ASAP. It was an excellent object lesson about the merits of…

I agree that my mother’s bad experiences in the 80s lit a fire under me to advocate for myself. My mom was a week overdue and induced. The induction & extremely strong epidural made her feel sick and her legs were so numb they were falling off the bed. She was then too numb to push and they had to use forceps.…

When I had my kids, I really did not want a C-section. There are so many reasons not to want a C-section but the bottom line is that I am very afraid of surgury. So many people treated me like a hippy lunatic for opting for a plan that was statistically least likely to result in a section. Obviously I would have had a…

In her interview on Slate, she said that women had gotten all of the concessions they could possibly need to improve their birth experiences from hospitals by the early 80's! That is completely batshit crazy! I was born in the early 80's & my mother’s experience only differed from her mother’s in the fact that she was…

I have heard of men getting turned away for vasectomies for being too young. All of the guys I know who have had them, have had to go through a pretty serious intake process.

I married into a New Orleans family & many members of the extended family were shocked that we only had friends in our wedding party. I actually had 2 soon to be relatives call to ask me about bridesmaids dresses, because they just assumed they were in the wedding party. Those were terribly strained conversations.…

I get asked about this a lot because my husband works with a lot of women & frequently has meals, meetings & projects where he is alone with other women for extended periods of time. It really isn’t an issue for us. I love that his ability to work well and respectfully with women has become a part of his professional…

Thanks to the fact that Pre-K 3 and Pre-K 4 are not generally offered in public schools in the US, most preschools are privately run. Your options are: a for profit place like this, a non profit that is often run through a church, a daycare affiliated with a private school, or in home daycare centers. Privately run…

I think you mak a lot of good points. I do, however, think that including info about her partying with parents is relavent to the story. I have sent kids through two different daycares & it is bananas that an administrator would open the facility on a weekend to accomodate a bunch of parents getting tanked with the…

I was on the board for a couple of years at the daycare center my daughters attended. The program was a church run non-profit and I was shocked to see the exceptionally thin margins they ran on. On an average month, they closed out with an excess of $100 - $300. This allowed almost no room for incidental expenses.…

The hubs and I are about to celebrate our 10th anniversary & I have recently been asked the details of our wedding by lots of my younger co-workers. I regale them with tales of weddings before Pinterest. We picked out one of 3 or 4 options for everything & didn’t worry if every detail reflected our personal brand. We…

I was just about to mention this. I have seen the center piece included in the price of the table at a lot of fundraisers as well.

That is a point that a lot of these articles miss. The state of New Orleans housing pre-Katrina was terrible in many places. Blighted properties & poorly maintained rental properties did keep the rental stock cheap, plentiful & centrally located, but the city was shrinking rapidly. Young people from every place in the…

I’m assuming this lady is volunteering to have all of her own sentimental treasures and accrued wealth to go in the moldy dunk tank first. I hope she has already decided which of her suburban relatives she and her entire extended family will move in with, while trying to sort out who still has jobs and health…

My husband’s most significant ex was a constant pest when we first started dating. She posted crazy things on livejournal( oy! that makes me feel old!) and always seemed to be keeping an eye on us from afar. Even though she had moved away, her friends would keep an eye on us and report back to her. She and my husband…

I have had the ParaGard for 3 years & I love it! I did have some more serious cramping & heavier periods for the first 3-6 months, but now I am golden. I didn't have great luck with hormonal BC & this has been a godsend.

I know those ‘conversations’ all too well. 10 years ago my husband & I rescued a 2 year old pit we found on the street during a night of drinking. We had no idea what we were doing & Casper had a ton of baggage. He had been used as a bait dog. He was starving, scarred & terrified of other dogs & most men. We were…

Insteads are horrible! The cups have a completely different shape. I have had a diva & moon cup. I prefer the moon cup.