The only time that works is when you have a super feminist boss who has fought her way up through a male-dominated industry, and she thinks you’re awesome. I’d been instrumental in building the organization from start-up, but it had been 4 years with no raise. I really didn’t think I’d get anywhere, so even though I…

I work at a nonprofit building materials reuse center, and the hipsters who buy our old furniture and wrought iron pieces have made it possible to create 40 good jobs with benefits (many to folks who had barriers to employment), and to provide tens of thousands of dollars of free home repair supplies and appliances to…

Yeah, individuals have been doing stripping forever, and sometimes doing it in pretty messy or dangerous ways. However, as the industry is growing, there is increasing professionalism. Some deconstruction companies have now been doing full deconstruction (where they take everything down to the ground and remove it…

Glad you are doing well, and best wishes on the tough job of creating a good childhood for your kids. To give you some encouragement: My parents were both raised in a cult, but got out as young adults. They had been terribly damaged by their experiences, and consequently second-guessed themselves a lot as parents. But…

Aw that’s an awesome story!

I have a classic name that has not been popular in several generations, and have enjoyed the rarity of it. Anordinaryboy and I have long wanted to name any future children after amazing old people in our lives, such as my great-aunt and his godmother. The names are great, easy to spell and pronounce, and uncommon in…

May be true of the 4 year state universities, but most of the community colleges in our area seem to have at least 50% nontraditional students. When I am on a CC campus for a recruiting event or to talk about my industry, half the students I talk to seem to be over the age of 22.

The community colleges in our surrounding area certainly do. I work in a green industry, and the administrators at all of the CC systems in our region have reached out to our company and other green businesses for advice in shaping their future class offerings. I know classes are in the works for green construction,…

Oh wait, I just saw your screen name. I’m still getting used to the influx of trolls from Gawker!

It’s really not that hard... unless you’re blacking out, as she was.

What’s even sadder is she hadn’t even had PIV intercourse with him previously - she testified that she’d given him a blow job earlier that week specifically because she didn’t want to have intercourse with him - because she liked him, and wanted to please him, but didn’t want to go all the way.

You’re right that culture has changed. I was a senior in college in 1999, and at least at my wealthy and conservative campus, affirmative consent was not a concept that was broadly discussed (except among the small number of women who hung out at the women’s center on campus).

Cotton and linen! Beautiful patterns! Sigh... I just wish it came in plus sizes.

Cotton and linen! Beautiful patterns! Sigh... I just wish it came in plus sizes.

Yes, this is giving me flashbacks to my room senior year. I lived off-campus in a group house, in a crumbling old Victorian. I lived in what had been the maid’s quarter, right above the kitchen. For furniture, my adult sister gave me her old queen-size futon, though the mattress had been destroyed at some point so it…

Do you really think a divorced woman could become president? I can’t imagine it, anymore then I can imagine an openly atheist president

No, no flaming - just a giggle. You really think we all failed to see any irony here? In fact, we are getting a deep pleasure out of the turnabout. See, here’s the thing... reading Thighlights on Jez was the first time in 30-some-odd years on this earth that I’d ever seen women talking about male athletes this way. I…

Aw, that was mean! I’m sorry :(

Just found out a few days ago that my friend’s ex-husband killed her dog the year before they divorced, as a way to punish her. I knew he was kind of a depressed grump, but was stunned to find out he was on such another level of cruel. So I’m worrying a lot about their kids!

Kelly, no! Just because Chip and Joanna have overused shiplap till we all wanna scream, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I agree. I also think it had something to do with the huge fuss being made over celebrating American history for the bicentennial in 1976.