My BIL is involved in LA politics (although he’s lost every race he’s run in). Let’s just say, we don’t see eye-to-eye on a single issue.

Like almost every other 11-year-old girl who picked it up, that book just spoke to my soul at that age.

My very Catholic “birth control is a sin” great-grandparents only had one child, six years into their marriage, who looked suspiciously like their widower best friend, known to my grandmother as “Uncle Jack.”

My weird answer about siblings/growing up is that I mostly grew up an only child, but I have a close relationship with my older sister.

100%

I’m really glad she’s getting better and has found a community and support system to help her navigate sobriety.

My MIL, for some sick reason at her birthday dinner in January, decided to read a Facebook post from her friend who attacked a trans person (or who he believe was trans) for going into the bathroom at the same time as his daughter and “was lucky he didn’t get arrested.”

Back in my teens, at an age when idolizing a role model is a much simpler feat, I used to be the hugest fan of JK Rowling. I was a wannabe children’s author (still am, after a couple of late-stage publisher rejections) and looked up to her as I studied creative writing and wrote a couple of early novels about myths…

The Avatar 2 interaction is probably both the funniest and most terrifying thing I’ll read all year. 

D-MER or not being able to breastfeed generally?

I left my baby with my mom at 3mos (overnight) and am about to again at 9mos (week-long belated honeymoon).

I’m here with you. I have an 8 month old right now and had the worst time breastfeeding.

I’ve only used high speed chargers on road trips, and while I did pay $2k for an outlet so I could charge in our driveway (one of the best investments I’ve ever made, purely in terms of convenience), as we speak my company is installing 6 L2 chargers in the parking garage, negating both the need for driving to a…

My energy cost is $.12/kWh. It costs us ~$5 for 100 miles on our ID.4.

We calculated that it costs us about $5 to charge our EV 80% last year.

I really wish someone had told me to take calcium supplements. I gave birth in June and have been to the dentist about ~8 times since.

I found out about them from a Buzzfeed article yesterday and was so thrilled!

We do!! We loved the name Charlie so our boy is Charles and a girl would have been Charlotte.

I have to admit, I got a mild amount of schadenfreude the other day while on a parenting forum I frequent when a mom was posting about renaming her four month old daughter because the old one didn’t “fit” her daughter anymore and people kept mispronouncing the name.

Reading her quote about being 11, my initial reaction was “yeah, but it’s so good!”