Yup... and this is the problem with having police officers stationed in schools.  When they are right there, the kid gets arrested instead of just getting detention or sent home.

You are right about the unfair burden.

yup, exactly.  I wouldn’t have necessarily thought of the language barrier at first, but I would have thought of dementia immediately.

I have a family member who is a social worker and works with seniors. She says it’s true that many illnesses that come with age can increase angry, aggressive behavior, because no one likes being disoriented and confused. However, it doesn’t explain truly hateful behavior UNLESS that person was already harboring…

You bring up a good question! Just did a quick google search and apparently the bottle bills went away due to massive lobbying: http://www.bottlebill.org/about/opponents.htm

Thank you for talking about investing in it!!! There ARE great solutions bubbling up out here, but for some reason it’s really under the radar of investors.

Wouldn’t implementing bottle deposits speak to that financial incentive?  So if you want to buy your water in a plastic bottle, fine, but you’ll pay the 8 cents it’s going to take to deal with it.  

I got them as a college graduation present from my mom. We had very little extra money so this was a big deal. I picked my outfits carefully - a blazer for a professional headshot, a ruffly silk blouse for a dressy pic to send to relatives, and a denim jacket for the casual pic to share with friends. The glamour…

Yes. The wealthy women I know around here wear Talbots and Eileen Fischer for every day clothes they don’t have to think about, and classic looks for fundraisers and embassy stuff. Michelle Obama’s style is pretty much the epitome of well-dressed in DC.

I sort of had the opposite experience. We are white and were house-hunting in a majority-black county. The white realtor from a whiter area (who I mostly chose because his wife had done a huge favor for a family member of mine) kept trying to show us stuff in the next county over. But we had strong reasons for wanting…

I used to think about trying it, but a school friend of mine went on it in his early twenties and did commit suicide. He had generally been a pretty happy-go-lucky guy, no history or signs of depression, and his closest friends and family were all stunned - they blamed the Accutane since it was the only thing that had…

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…