congrats to you too - and thanks!

YES!!! Savings is the most bad ass! My hubs and I were DINKs for a couple years and lived kinda frugally, essentially banking his salary. At 28 he decided his dream was to get a PhD and try to become a professor. Because we had savings he could do that. We were even able to bank his stipend for a couple of years…

I think that is just Hathways’s goofy theater kid self talking. When my music and theater friends get together (and drunk) we all sound like Leslie Knope, “oh my God you GLORIOUS TROPICAL FISH YOU ARE A MAGICAL CREATURE.” Embarrassing when sober but delightful in the moment.

Ginger thank you! I just moved to the Toledo area and am bored but now - tickets for Gatsby picnic have been purchased and I just have to talk my husband into attending with me.

Yes! She somehow took all of the amazing silent film emoting and merged it with her later theater work and pulls out Norma Desmond and it one of my favorite things on film! I’m so happy others love it :)

My husband teaches this in his film music course so I get to watch it every year while he preps. Every single one of her gestures is perfection - she is mesmerizing!

On the flip side - Have children when you can bounce back from a hangover - because that infant stage feels like a 24/7 hangover. While I’m sure it is different for everyone, I had mine at 30 and 32 and wished I’d had them a bit younger from an energy standpoint. To be honest - my older one is almost four and I can…

I have to share my awesome Canadians being supportive of maternity leave story! The day my daughter was born I was emailing back and forth with a Canadian vendor (while I was in labor) and I thought I sent the crucial purchase order. 6 weeks later the vendor calls me and they haven’t received the order. I apologized…

Just want to preface this by saying I am not disagreeing with the value of EITC but just adding nuance to the conversation. I think the EITC is a great thing but it doesn't always indicate that an employer is underpaying. At my small company we have a couple of employees who receive the EITC (I know because they talk…

Am late to the party on this (and will be in the greys) - but just wanted to say that even being super frugal, kids are insanely expensive. Mine are 3 and 1 and own about 95% hand me downs (clothes, toys, furniture, everything). Daycare and health insurance basically wipe us out every month (about 60% of our take home…

I'm 33 and I sunburn after being outside for 5 minutes. I just dipped my toe into long sleeved linen shirts/tunics last summer and I'm never going back!

She's a buddy of mine from undergrad and I can attest that her niceness is totally for real. Every interview you see of her is totally genuine. All of her friends are super psyched for her success because she is such a hard worker and good egg!