Hah! Are you English? You are being very polite English about this. Which I applaud, btw.

No. Empathy. Compassion. Diversity. Decency. Take your pick.

Good grief. My parents made us go out of the way to be nice to the kids who had issues or disabilities at our schools. WTF?

Well aren’t you a special little snowflake??!!

Yeah, like jesus christ. You buy a barbie at target, wrap it, give to your kid to put in the pile, tell them to be nice to the birthday kid and everyone else, they get cake and ice cream and then come home and crash from the sugar high - IT’S NOT A BIG DEAL JUST MAKE YOUR KID BE NICE TO OTHER KIDS AND THEY ALSO GET…

If your kid can’t tell the difference between accepting a formal party invitation from a peer and climbing into a stranger danger, Criminal Minds van- you need to not let your kid outside by themselves ever.

What the shit???? When I was a kid, my parents made me go to several classmates’ parties that I didn’t want to go to. They also made me invite people I didn’t want to invite to my parties because they didn’t want kids left out. I strongly believe this taught me a valuable lesson about including people and doing the…

I still have regrets about turning down an invitation to the weird kid’s 9th birthday party. No one went. I felt guilty about it the next monday morning and still do to this day. That shit stays with you.

When it comes to dealing with the world’s assholes and atrocities, I live by the words of Mr. Fred Rogers.

For fucks sake. When I was young, even if I didn’t want to go to a classmates party, my parents dragged me there anyways. Some days aren’t about you. Plus, you get cake. Go to the party!

All I see here is that scene from Parks & Recreation where Rob Lowe is glaring at himself in the hospital mirror and demanding that he: “STOP. POOPING.”

“The fever...the rage...the feeling of powerlessness- when WikiLeaks reveals you tried to stop the world from finding out your family owned slaves.”

Waiting at the airport for a flight. There’s a line of about 10 people at the counter that were delayed from an earlier flight. Some dude pushes past the line and screams at the desk agent that, “(He) has to be on this flight! And it has to be first class!” Agent tells him that she can help him but he need to wait in…

I did mention A-a-ron, at a professional development event for teachers, on teaching phonics. The event leader mentioned in passing, when talking about double vowels, how students do not always understand that they are pronounced as one sound and not two.

"The ocean is hungry."

We flew on a combination of cash gifts and left over in-laws' Airmiles points and couldn't be too fussy about arrangements. On the return leg, we had to fly home to Canada separately.

My new husband and I stayed in a cute little cabin on the Olympic Peninsula and cooked for ourselves the whole week while exploring the rain forest and local beaches. The very last night, we decided to splurge on a nice dinner out. We got all dolled up and had a drink or two and had a lovely evening. Driving along the…

My new husband and I were staying in one of the top rated hotels in the entire world in a location where you should be careful about drinking the water. We had this special romantic dinner the night before involving a private chef. It was hella dreamy. But in the middle of the night, I woke up with my belly rumbling.…

I got my period. Not a huge deal but on the way home (we missed our flight so it was was was later one) I took my earrings out and they started bleeding and my husband said, "you're just bleeding from anywhere, hey?!" I was slightly horrified.