Oof, I’m really feeling this right now. In the managers meeting this morning, everybody was dismayed that my (all-female) team had not yet done X for an upcoming event. I was caught off guard and sputtered, instead of explaining that I had a plan and there were reasons why we weren’t going to start X until next week.

In the 60's, a female teacher told my mom not to take typing, because if she knew how to type then she’d be assigned to a secretarial role and would never advance in a profession.  

I live in swampy DC, and though I don’t ride the metro to work, I do work in place without air conditioning. I grow my hair out long enough to put it into a bun every day. I keep cotton handkerchiefs in my purse to pat my face.

As someone with mobility issues, I wish that architects, commercial interior designers, and event planners had one week a year in which they were required to navigate the world in incredibly uncomfortable shoes that threw them off balance and sent shooting pains up their legs if they stood for more than a few…

Checks out with my experience. I’m currently trying to handle a situation at my volunteer gig right now, and haven’t been able to sleep well in days.  

I do wear the equivalent (boyshort undies) to bed, they’re very nice and loose! But I can’t wear them during the day unless I’m wearing a loose sundress or skirt. My pants and shorts dresses won’t work with boyshorts, they fit too close so the underwear will just bunch up and be uncomfortable.

I got linen sheets recently, and I’ve never slept so well!  Very expensive but so worth it.

My husband wishes I would sleep nude, but I just can’t fall asleep unless I have at least a tanktop and boyshorts on. I lived though an industrial accident as a kid (an explosion at a facility across the street), and I’ll never forget the image of my mom running out into the yard in her underwear, silhouetted against a…

Yes. Had a girls weekend recently with a group of friends, and we had a detailed back-and-forth between the commandos and the never-nudes. It was determined that the ladies who like commando are overall pretty dry, but among those always wear undies, some are drippy enough that they also wear pantiliners on a daily…

See, I live in Prince George’s County and this is why I don’t trust any of the school ratings on the real estate websites. I don’t know whether the “bad” schools actually are bad. We don’t have kids yet, so I’m kinda thinking I need to just volunteer at our local elementary school to see for myself. Worst case…

Maybe it’s just the case in poorer urban areas? I work in an old neighborhood inside the DC beltway, an inner-ring streetcar suburb that is working-class and pretty diverse (the mayor jokes that the only type of people we don’t have are rich people). I live in an old industrial town outside the beltway, also one of…

Oops, just going to correct myself here. I read the story from the local paper, and saw that the church itself is actually in Charles County. When the priest kicked them out, the funeral home workers were shocked, and took her casket back to their funeral home to do the service, which is just a few miles south down in…

Next county = Charles County, which has a much blacker population overall (due to all the middle-class black folks who have been gentrified out of DC over the last decade). Maybe the family was so upset they just wanted to get out of St. Mary’s County at that point.  

Yes, for some reason it’s common for convenience stores, drug stores, and gas stations to have employee-only bathrooms -because they don’t want to have to clean up after the public, I think? 

I got a ton for my wedding that were already stained. Since they were made of real cotton, not polyester, I was able to get most of the stains out by soaking with borax, and/or putting lemon juice on the stains and leaving them in the sun. Some still have small stains but it doesn’t really matter, the patterns are…

What a great idea!!  

What a great idea!!  

What a great idea!!  

I’ve never seen one at a thrift store here in the DC area, though I have found some great vintage napkins. But her advice to look at antique malls is excellent!

I saw this happen a lot at my rural high school, where the counselors knew nothing about financial aid. They basically told the kids in the advanced classes that their only options for affordable college were to do the honors program at our state school or to sign up for ROTC or go to one of the military academies. My…