Maybe not actually tonight, since I know her brother would really like us to go see Mockingjay tonight, but soon. After that text message, coupled with conversations we've had about girls in her middle school who are rumored to have sex (and those conversations mainly deal with stopping people from spreading rumors),…

Maybe I'm being naive in thinking there just seems to be an explosion of predatory behavior among young men today versus when I was in high school and college twenty years ago, but I wonder how much abstinence only sex-ed, with its focus on the risk of pregnancy and its inherent slut-shaming, has led to this? It seems…

You've got to love how the church youth group was all ready to get in on the action, defending the predator and shaming the girls.

Its so hard, because even when they're smart and informed, its still hard to go against expectations. I have a 12 year old, super independent, ready to call people on their shit, proud to call herself feminist daughter. But last year, I was sitting at my desk at work when I get a text message from her that was…

As someone who's worked at universities for many years, I would say you're making a good decision. Roommate problems can fester and eventually explode and cause so much unnecessary stress for everyone involved, and it's just not worth it.

But parents have no obligation (legal or otherwise) to donate an organ or otherwise risk their life for a living, breathing, born child- why is a pregnant woman's obligation to her fetus greater than the obligation of that same woman to the child after it is born?

But they also weren't planning to abort in the Carder case, rather the debate was whether or not to treat the mother as a cancer patient deserving of appropriate treatment rather than just an incubator housing a fetus that needed rescuing.

The law varies state to state, but about half the states have laws requiring employers to let their employees to take time to vote.

Where do i apply for a job in your department? My fellow Texans so disappointmented me last night, it may be time to relocate; pretty posh British men would be an extra incentive.

I thought it couldn't get worse than hearing, after the deaths of both my mother and brother from different cancers, "they're in a better place," or "It must be part of God's plan." This is so much worse and more offensive.

If you're in Texas, your address on your license doesn't have to match the address if your voter registration. The ID is only to verify your identity, so if your name is identical on your DL and voter registration, you should be fine to vote, and you should fight for it if they try to tell you no or push you to do a…

Get a lawyer. Seriously. I was at fault when I hit a car, I was driving maybe 10 mph. I had stopped at the stop sign at the corner that faced my driveway before proceeding to drive into my driveway, and failed to notice the car coming around the corner two houses down. I hit the car's passenger doors, but not hard…

No kidding. I grew up in Corpus Christi and still have lots of family there. I knew I shouldn't have clicked on this story.

This is amazing!

That is exactly why I'm scared of mandolins. I had a friend who received one for Christmas a few years ago, and then spent New Year's Eve in the emergency room to after she decided to try out her new present and took off a piece of her pinky. I just remember her finger being bandaged for months.

I quit a job I really liked a few years ago because my boss had a mid life crisis and then decided she needed to make everyone else miserable, too. At that time my father was going through some serious health issues and my brother was dealing with cancer, and in spite of those situations, my job had become the most…

Her dad donated a kidney to her a couple of years ago; maybe you're mixing up her family and Ariel Winter's?

That was Lucy Flores, who's running as a Dem for Lt. Governor in Nevada.

Or whipped cream vodka with limeade= key lime pie. Or salted caramel vodka and honeycrisp apple cider, perfect for dealing with too many relatives on Thanksgiving.

My love for Duran Duran hasn't died yet, and its been more than 30 years since I first fell for John Taylor. I'm taking my daughter to see 1D in a couple of weeks and I can't wait to see her go all fangirl for them.