You are exactly right about the escalation!!! I train new hires in customer service at my organization, and we do have some customers come in who are clearly dealing with mental illness or heavy stress, or perhaps have dementia or a drinking problem. The very first thing you learn is not to get pompous or arrogant…

Yeah, I have the same problem of sometimes needing to look sharp and sometimes getting dirty. I guess you could do a lot of polo shirts, but a lot are made with a grandpa cut and can look kind of schlubby if you aren’t super fit. I’m also guessing those kitchens can get hot.

As a thirteen-percenter from another island in the Bay - thank you!

YES

That sounds gorgeous!

In a way it already has. When overfishing and development/erosion in the watershed caused the collapse of the oyster and rockfish industry, there was no longer a way to make a living by following the water. There have now been several decades of young people who have already left Tangier because they couldn’t earn a…

You missed the part where the folks who DO listen to the scientists take off for school and then take jobs in environmental conservation on the mainland. They just don’t come back because there are no jobs there.

Bring in chunks of stone and broken concrete to build rip-rap jetties along the coastline, I think? However, after just 15 years growing up on the water, I was able to see that doesn’t work. I decided to do a high school science project to learn how to grow more native beach grass and marsh grass to protect the sand…

Yeah, it reminds me of all that sweet rape money that women supposedly get for falsely claiming rape. Like, where the heck would that money even come from?

The Tangier Islanders don’t think it’s sinking or that water is rising, they just see the erosion and don’t understand the root cause of the erosion. Which is understandable if you don’t have higher-level science courses and you tend to rely on your own eyes and oral history - the islands are indeed washing away.

Ohh, that does explain the trend!!

Ohh, that does explain the trend!!

You are exactly right about mixed decades!!

I LOVE Vera N. and collect her scarves, but it’s extremely hard to find any clothes nowadays.

The idea that Lord and Taylor hyped this makes me supremely happy. My beloved Great-Aunt relied on L&T. She was so stylish that even into her 90's, I trusted her judgement better than mine (she spent her last few years in assisted living, and even though she was losing her memory, everyone called her Barbie because…

Grew up in the tidewater. It was an absolutely gorgeous place to grow up, with a sandy beach and wide river on one side, and marshes on the other. I miss it terribly and am sad I can’t afford to give my future kids that kind of beauty.

This!

This!

Just want to proudly share a story! I was in the oddball sorority, the one with science majors and lesbians and theater girls and such (unlike the other sororities on campus, we didn’t haze, so we weren’t considered hard-core enough for the social climbers). One of the girls enjoyed talking about gross stuff - poop…

Yeah, I really believe that we need to companies to change their culture in order to make a dent in this. So I’m heartened that Total Wine and the others are speaking out and making the case for hiring returning citizens!