NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! The worst Christmas song is “Christmas Shoes”.

can we hold each other for next 4-8 years, please???

Hey President Dumbshit! Even smart people need to read to actually know things. Being smart doesn’t mean you just magically acquire knowledge. It just means that you’re capable of processing and understanding what you read!

Thank you so much. This is so reassuring! Especially the part about having a second child. I’ve always wanted at least two children but my struggle with anxiety during pregnancy and now postpartum had me convinced that I should never do this pregnancy thing again. Which made me so sad because my son is delightful and…

When I had my son, after exactly eleven days, he developed extreme colic. I mean extreme. The only time he wasn’t screaming was when he was asleep, and that wasn’t often. So while I had postpartum depression, I’m not sure my case is typical. I don’t think I slept for more than two hours for at least 7 months, and that…

Odd suggestion here that might seem a little out-of-left field, but some women use birth control pills to manage their moods/anxiety after children are born. It’s strange to think, but in women, hormones have a significant effect on mood. I also can’t suggest more strongly that you get on top of the panic/anxiety…

2017 we’re gonna look back on 2016 fondly as “not that bad”. Future under Trump is gonna be shit. Absolute shit.

I had horrible anxiety after both my kids were born. Both times I went back to work it was exacerbated by my replacements giving me a hard time about taking my job back (futile on their part, I’m unionized, but anxiety’s not rational). I remember dropping my son off, sobbing outside the daycare for an hour, then…

As an art historian, I think it depends on how directly the person’s behavior affected or was involved in the art. There’s also the problem of not wanting to financially support a living artist who is a terrible person. It has its place in the conversation.

Craft thread!

The worst thing about 2016 is that your fruitloop great-uncle who built an underground bunker for $30,000 and has 900 days of dried food stashed away WAS FUCKING RIGHT.

How is this our actual reality?!

Today was nice. I spent the day with a friend (and former colleague) and we have this really lovely friendship that can seem a bit unconventional at times to others, mainly because of our age difference. I’m 34 and she’s 57. I’m single with no kids and she’s married with three daughters who are all in their early…

I’m gonna pretend that it’s Michael Bolton, and that he’s just going to serenade people into peace and tranquility. That’s almost certainly a better foreign policy plan than anything Trump and his flying monkeys have cooked up.

Honestly? I don’t even think they care. Pro-America rah rah flag waving, gun toting behavior doesn’t go much further past...just that. There’s no deeper thought process behind it. It is just pure, unbridled nationalistic hysteria. Facts and reason have no place.

Some motherfucker just told me I could “catch more flies with honey.”

I’ll be your friend...I still have a giant case of HOLY SHIT that won’t go away no matter how hard I try to keep from freaking out, and I have a wide circle of friends and family who are not Trumpsters. Plus, I’m 58, so I don’t even have to (personally) worry if abortion rights disappear, though I am in the wrong spot…

I’ve been holed up in my apartment writing for six days straight and am not sure what life is anymore. Tonight I will venture out into the real world to drink and enjoy the company of real people before I start marathon-grading finals tomorrow. Almost there!

Oooo. I started decorating my huge tree with kids. It’s nine feet tall. We were so Griswold at the tree farm. Soooo jazzed about Christmas. Only two weeks until my bro and sis and their families show up! And my husband gets home tonight. Date night tomorrow. My doggies are all snuggled with me. This is the life. And…