Wait, wut? The AFL-CIO - as an organization - didn’t endorse Trump. https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-votes-endorse-hillary-clinton-president nor did the UAW https://uaw.org/uaw-endorsement-process/ 

I wish I could give this one billion stars!

Someone posted above - that “this isnt about leggings” & that the original point Dana Falsetti made was that Alo and Cody needed to be more inclusive. I wish I could star this x1000!!! Confession... I’ve been practicing since I was 19; I started in an old warehouse - not the fixed up kind - with one of the few…

I am HoH, too and have the same experience. I am learning ASL (slowly) because I am feeling more isolated in a world that is (generally) angry AF at me because I can’t hear them. At best, I get apathy from friends and family when I point out that noisy restaurants and environments mean I won’t get to participate…

This made me snartle the dog (snort/laugh while startling him, lol) who had been peacefully sitting on my lap.

I am working on an afghan (one I hope to actually finish this time, lol) because crocheting is my mind numbing comfort go-to activity when I can’t drink wine. Which I can’t do because I am on antibiotics for my third bout of mastitis; which no one knows why I am getting (never had kids, don’t smoke, no piercings,…

I read that piece the day this all broke (shared by a FB yogi friend). Love it - and its helped me better understand both my own reflexive initial response, and other’s responses to this. I’ve remained really saddened by how some people have just dug their heels in more with the whole “it was just a bad date” take.…

Yep, I have been stalking The Root (knowing they would do better than Jezebel did, and they didn’t fail me) and searching for comments like yours to keep me sane, considering the preponderance of “why didn’t she leeeeave!” ones. Yeah. Also. Hi. She DID LEAVE!! I keep coming back to what you said, cause I am going to…

Bravo!!!!

The archaeologist who took me on my tour also worked on the later digs, and he explained the same to us (in our tour they recreated the solstice, and explained the delay and Dowth). Have “they” confirmed that the mounds’ primary use were as burial chambers (I know the sites later were used for this, for sure)? I…

Visiting Newgrange was my favorite part of my Ireland visit. I wanted to grow up to be an archaeologist as a kid (my mom fed me a diet of Elizabeth Peters) and I dragged my girlfriend along with me on a local archaeologist-led small group tour of Newgrange and a few other sites for a full day of our two week stay.…

Oooof. This list depresses me a bit and reminds me how much my life has changed post-stroke and Dx with autoimmune disease. I’m trying not to freak about how unhealthy I feel when I compare my list to lists like this (I’m only 38). Remicade, Eliquis, Plavix, Clonidine (high BP from eff’d up arteries that caused my…

Good god I could go on and on about this. I have a service dog and you would NOT BELIEVE the number of people who let their children run up to my dog and physically throw themselves onto my dog in a full-on body hug. My mother would have spanked me raw for petting (let alone hugging) a strange dog without getting…

Weird that I have to clarify this. People can get seriously hurt fainting. They can break their hip. Hit their head, etc... Granted she didn’t, and I am glad for her. You are fine finding it funny, whatever dude. I will just hang out over here, not laughing at people when things like that happen to them.

Same, I am so disturbed when people find others’ pain/illness/medical conditions amusing.

Gahhhd I hate the term “stroking out.” Blech. Goes right along with when people say disparagingly: what, did he have a stroke or something?? (to indicate the person is acting “weird,” not neurotypical, etc...). Its funny how much surviving three strokes made me notice when people use stroke as some kind of insult. I…

This is how mine works, too. I have to get up and get fully awake, otherwise its just an endless cycle.

CONFESSION TIME! You know, this is so true... I have had recurrent sleep paralysis, not like, several times a month, but recurrent like, an endless chain in a single night, several times a month, my whole life....with auditory and hypnagogic hallucinations. I have had sleep studies, etc... and my docs say the way I…

I did the same thing. I have a short list of movies that have affected me that way and Arrival is in there. I think its something about consciously, purposefully making a choice to experience something, while absolutely knowing that choice will lead to pain, because the experience and love will be worth it. Seriously…

This remains my favorite piece by him. Its the one I send to white aquaintances who do the “I’m not racist, but” type arguments. I’ve yet to find a single person who read it in full who can argue (substantively vs. emotionally) with his premise.