Hoydens!

I just want to point out that they were all Teach For America interns.

The books are brilliant.

I did the same thing. It felt so bizarre, like I was living in a book or a movie. I never expected to be fleeing in the night, calling women’s shelters as I went.

Yeah. It was similar with my relationship. Once I was pregnant (planned, wanted, etc.), he started emotionally abusing me. When the baby was born, it just ramped up to eleven. By the time our child was 10 weeks old, he was cheating. By the time our child hit his first birthday, he was leaving guns all around the house…

I just did an image search for her. Yup, she’s young and attractive.

I teach public school and I’m forever grateful that my campus is very relaxed about faculty/staff attire. We’re in Houston, and the AC in my classroom doesn’t work. I typically wear jeans and a t-shirt. Some teachers wear suits and heels, but it’s by no means required. The principal basically just wants everyone to be…

Same comment! Except I was 30!

It’s like they turn people into little guinea pigs.

I grew up here: http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/we… . I don’t know if I will ever feel okay about drinking tap water.

Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows deserves to be in the YA category. I'm disappointed that YA is all male writers.

No. They handle their anger very well, because somehow they manage to never have these so-called uncontrollable outbursts in front of anyone with power over them.

I have watched two women in my life die from insisting on using those “miracle cures” to treat their cancers. Both died in agony, after spending many, many weeks in unrelenting pain. I wish those snake oil peddlers would all be prosecuted.

The sleeping on their backs thing gave me so much anxiety when my son was an infant. From birth, he hated sleeping on his back. He would fuss, kick, jolt awake, and scream. I tried swaddling, but he hated that even more than he hated back-sleeping. Finally, I turned him on his stomach. The first time, he seemed to…

I live in Houston. I’m not pregnant, but I’m hoping to become pregnant in the next year or so. I’m very concerned. Houston is going to end up with Zika, from what I’ve read. So far, our cases have been from travel, but I would be very surprised if we don’t have it here by mid-summer or so. Also, I’m pushing 40. I hate…

Born Against - Half Mast.

At least, not repeatedly and without apology and sincere efforts to manage the behavior.

So people who struggle with mental illness aren’t capable of having a high level of vitriol without that mental illness? What?

Sucking it up and accepting being abused isn’t supportive. What if her friend had hit her husband? It probably would have been much less painful.

This is such co-dependent, enabling bullshit.