Think what you will about the Smith’s (and there is A LOT there to talk/think/question about), but this is a damn good thing.  Good for him. 

It is great that the Smith family is helping the people of Flint, but man I am so tired of seeing celebrities and billionaires having to step up and do the government’s job. 

I once realized how smart one of my friends was a guy she had been hooking up with broke up with his girlfriend and then asked my friend to go out with him. She looked that sucker dead in the eye and said “why the hell would I want to go out with you? You cheat on your girlfriends.”

Again...Didn’t Tristan cheat on his pregnant girlfriend to get with Khloe? You ain’t that innocent girl.

Thanks, I was at a bad point in my life. I was drinking heavily, doing insane amounts of drugs. And was in an on-again off-again abusive relationship myself. My heart ached for her but I also saw my future in Joanne. It didn’t change me overnight, but it did start me thinking about how screwed up my own life was. 

Thank you for standing up for that vulnerable woman.  You made a difference.

Thanks to my mom I’m 80% quiet midwestern lady and a louder 20% Norma Rae who will run her mouth and enjoy it.

Sorry for the length, and that I’m not a very good writer. But this is an important story to me so I’ll do my best.

I cannot imagine the pressure you were under—each minute is $$$. But H2S takes no prisoners. Kudos.

I had a teacher bring a piñata to class and she was going to have us line up alphabetical order to hit it. I suggested we do reverse alphabetical order so kids with initials at the back would get to go first for a change. The teacher agreed and switched the order. My last name started with a K at the time and I was…

I like where I work and who I work with, but the finance and tech sector is still very much an old guys network with precious few women and no appreciable pipeline to fix it. I get the usual daily sexist crap and most of the time I just deal.

I got the shittiest, most disgusting manager fired at my shitty job *after I left it.*

I got my former boss, a genuinely terrible person and worse manager, fired for cause. She was gossiping about a person in another department who got fired. I heard about it from the person she gossiped to, told the fired person’s manager, who took it to our director. I expected nothing to come of it, as usual, but he…

The time when, as a 17 year old travelling through London with a huge 100 litre rucksack on I came across an obviously disabled man who everybody on the platform was ignoring (to the point of having a 6foot ‘bubble ‘ around him) despite him plainly struggling. He had a stick, so he was fairly mobile, but it was…

I used to go to an LA Fitness. Nice gym and all, now I have a home treadmill.

In Jackson MS, about 4 years ago, I was at a popular bar during an open mic night. I was sitting in the back chatting up some random new acquaintances. On the stage a mostly-drunk/completely-joyus woman had wandered up to an empty drum set. She banged on the drums for 10 minutes. Every second of her performance was…

The time I worked in oil... oh man.

I once took a bee for my dog.

I was in college several years back taking Political Science/International Studies. I forget which niche topic the class was supposed to be for, but it was taught by the head of the Political Science department, an old white man who’d been working for forty plus years. Generally, he was nice and generous with grades.