I wonder if social media feedback has the power to tank projects like this? I can’t imagine they got a positive response.

I keep a red scrunchie in a drawer in case there is ever a question about who is in charge ;)

Something flipped in my brain earlier this year (possibly fall-out from the election) and I have had a glorious run of Yelling at Men! My favorite specialty is when I am walking by and one makes a rude and disrespectful statement because he is with a group and assumes I will be too afraid to confront him. But in fact,…

Hi Monica,

Ahh well. I’ll raise a toast in your honor :)

I am originally from northern, NJ, the least exotic sounding place on earth. And yet, my old town has a black bear overpopulation problem. Once we had a momma bear with triplets in our front lawn. I also saw a massive bear heading into my neighbor’s garage. And another time I was hiking with a friend in the woods and…

Well, you always fear what you don’t know. You’ve learned how to live around scary poisonous things that bite and we....we basically have yet to deal with our national gun problem at all.

The last time I was in Sydney I was having the “ways you can die from scary animals” conversation with a local colleague and she told me never to keep a glass of water out on your nightstand (or anywhere else) over night because it’s so dry that creepy crawlies will be attracted to it and if you’re not careful you…

Are you going to the alumnae club xmas party?

Something similiar happened to my friend’s father, also back in the 80s. He wears glasses but didn’t take them into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face. So, when he picked up the hand towel to dry himself, he didn’t realize there was an enormous huntsman on it and smashed it into his face. It promptly…

This recipe is from the Smitten Kitchen, my favorite food blog. And Nick is right, it is the most delicious sauce ever—shockingly so. It’s the easiest thing in the world. Here is a description from the horse’s mouth: https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/01/tomato-sauce-with-butter-and-onions/

It would be thrilling. Academia is long, long overdue for this kind of purge.

I can’t remember her name but I hope I see her again so I can thank her. If you do, will you tell her that her story really helped me?

Very kind of you!

I went to the local precinct and reported it the next morning but the guy just wrote a description on a pad. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. I have decided that I will make some signs and have been warning the neighbors I see.

Yeah. I think you’re right.

Thank you! Yes, it was super sketchy.

God, I am so sorry about your friend. Thank you for the well-wishes.

Thank you—that is the plan. I’m generally not a freaker-out-er, but this freaked me out a bit :)

So, in the menacing stranger category, an ultimately OK but potentially harrowing thing happened to me last night. I was walking home in the after work hours last night but the sun had gone down. I live in NYC on a pretty busy block and there are three buildings in a row with lighted awnings. A group of ladies was…