I don’t know if my husband and I can singlehandedly erase US capitalism’s hostility towards working parents—or implement the many family leave, healthcare, and childcare policies that are needed to rectify the situation—but thanks for believing in us :)

The last time I caught lice I was 22 and they found me either on the plane or train I took to the UK to start grad school. I went to the orientation after a couple of days of furious delousing with my hair in the highest, tightest bun I could manage, terrified I would start a graduate school lice outbreak.

I’m 10 weeks into my pregnancy and I’ve already blown through two weeks of sick leave (mostly really bad morning sickness days, but also a week of bed rest after some bleeding).

That song was so relatable as a high schooler with raging hormones and a total lack of romantic ability/knowhow. I never had a “rival” for a guy or blamed another girl for my single-ness, but I definitely felt like “these girls with successful love lives must have something that I seem to be majorly lacking in.” It…

We’re both married to men we love now, lol. Little bayougirl just had some life lessons to learn first.

I was 16 in 2009 and this was my go-to emotional jam song when I was in the mood for something a little mellower than “You Belong With Me.”

I think we’re still trying to figure out how to be humans whose voice in society lies in the money we spend when there’s no such thing as ethical consumption. Every store we buy at, meal we eat, item we buy, book, song, or movie we read watch or listen to supports some terrible person or cause.

I was always an enormous Harry Potter fan. My mom picked up on the Harry Potter hype when the fourth book was released in July 2000, and bought copies of them all, even though I had just turned seven that summer and my reading level was still at the Junie B. Jones/Magic Treehouse level.

I am extremely pro-vaccine, but I have to admit that when I was offered a booster shot a week after getting a positive pregnancy test, I was a little hesitant—shocking even myself. There are so many things you can’t do/eat/drink/take, you’re just so scared that sneezing the wrong way might cause you to have a…

...they’re not offering boosters to “the average Joe.” The expanding access this article is referring to is expanding access to those same high risk individuals who got Moderna and J&J vaccines.

This storm was such a surprise.

Georgia Nicolson was such a great protagonist to grow up alongside. Those books and the Princess Diary books made me a hardcore diarist between the ages of 13 and 15. I did my best to emulate all of my favorite book protagonists in my youth, and those were the years when I was devouring both of those series.

It’s not ironic, it’s deep misogyny and self hatred that has festered and expressed itself in this vile way.

I piled up a ton of old decor/home goods/cushions/kitchenware, etc. for a garage sale a month ago. and then the tenant who rents the small garage apartment unit behind my house decided to leave, so instead of renting it out again, I’m cleaning it out, going ham with fun paint ideas (a gut renovation is in its…

That was a great, informative article! Thank you for sharing it.

It’s all super ironic, because in a long letter she sent with a link to a Belgian doctor’s anti-vax campaign at the end, his step-mom tried to “consider how you feel when you have your own children” us, but that wasn’t followed with any message about making sacrifices for them or trying to protect them but “think…

Things I’ve heard from the anti-vaxxers:

I’m not a big facebook person, but I share every article I can find about young people who have died/gotten seriously ill with COVID I come across.

While the body standards of the time were definitely horrific, bad memories of low-rise jeans themselves are exactly what I’m reacting to. They hit at such an uncomfortable place and I always felt like I couldn’t move or bend or sit without flashing something. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that tunic-length tops…

I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, went to a Catholic school for my elementary education (which included daily religion classes), went to Catholic church at least once a week for most of my childhood, and I am from a heavily Catholic place where Catholic customs dictate a lot of my life whether or not I’m still…