I’ve met them all (I live in Pittsburgh) and I have subbed for all the kids at some point. Melissa pulled her kids out of school so they could be home schooled (trust me, the cyber school program is a total total joke.) The nicest mom I've met is Kelly. Christy was pretty cordial but she was picking up Chloe from…

I did a neuroscience minor in college and I agree. I was a little la la la about drugs before taking a number of drugs and your brain class. It is very clear how drugs can affect certain parts of your brain’s production and role and repeated usage is just destroying an organ we can't really repair.

The problem with MDMA more so than dehydration when it comes to brain chemistry is that it causes serotonin death. Your brain generally releases serotonin on a fairly even basis- with MDMA it releases it all at once, then your brain stops production for some time. This is very not good, especially as we aren't sure if…

I live in Pittsburgh and I used to live in Ohio- trust me- both sides would rather not be associated with each other, especially because Pittsburgh has such a strong identity on its own with the steel industry, emerging tech and medical industry, and our sports teams matching colors. Plus the topography is quite…

I wish we could just call these assholes unpatriotic and use that jingoistic fever people used during post 9/11-Iraq War run up for a more self serving purpose.

Capaldi has finally grown on me. It takes time when a new Doctor comes on :)

Oh DAMN. Shots fired. (And I literally cackled at my desk.)

I wish there was :( for a lot of people (high schoolers, college aged, older) there aren’t that many great resources available and a lot of our parents and their parents were poorly educated, so even if they are open about sex, they aren’t KNOWLEDGABLE about it. Big difference. When I was in high school (aka when…

The first school I observed in my undergrad was in February 2007 and had me watch an honors American history class and then in the afternoon, I sat in on an African-American history class (AAH was an option you could take instead of Civics and yes, it was basically where guidence counselors shoved black students…

Lord’s work with this post. This should be an article in itself.

College and career readiness is the bane of my teaching buzzwords list.

From many of my friends, it is very VERY simple why they don’t go: they’ve been sexually assaulted before and they don’t want a male doc, but the office gives them shit about not wanting a male doc and they hate the interrogation (like asking straight up if you’ve been raped- I know its doing their job I guess, but…

I almost wrote that, but you beat me to it.

And admitting that a woman driver is crucial to women’s safety is not something our government or the public really wants to admit.

My friend had a super creeptastic Lyft driver who asked excessively if had children. It creeped her out so much she reported him. That’s the only Lyft story I have.

My real life friends scourge me for not supporting Uber. Sorry, they’re bullshit and not apologizing for thinking they need to go above and beyond what a taxi company and regulations do in order to get my business.

I am a short gal - barely 5 foot and so really, anyone over say 5’3-4” is tall to me. I’ve dated mostly guys over 5’10” and current is a foot taller at least compared to me. I’ve asked maybe half a dozen or more “short” guys out for serious relationship, however, I got this bullshit from 3 of them that I was too short…

Generally, the ice girls help shovel the snow around the nets. Sometimes they come into the crowd, sometimes not. Otherwise, they are mostly mascot helpers. The Pens have men and women too, which is pretty cool.

Yeah but like Petraus shared classified documents with his mistress. And a VP outed a CIA agent. So.

You know, my first thought was “oh, they even give prisoners toiletries that aren’t expired?” Because I pretty much assume the worst of prisons and I haven’t been wrong yet.