Oh, how you flatter. That is Brene Brown. I'm Brene Brawn, the roller derby version, with shame resilience and brutality as my strengths.

I can't even wrap my head around it. Want to view the world as beautiful and hopeful? Okay— that means seeing the terrible, understanding what is behind it, and doing something to help make it better. And a really great place to have an immense amount of influence is through rearing emotionally intelligent and…

Also, these! https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_br…

I love the child version of your mom.

I worked at a law school that was interested in recruiting students from various backgrounds because it looked good for the school, but did nothing to address the blatant racism amongst the students and professors (because free speech!, the lawyers said). We had a student who transferred after his first year because…

I am genuinely in awe of the entirety of Hamilton— it as a musical, as a statement, as a movement. It contains so much power and brilliance and I just cannot wrap my head around why he isn't acknowledged for it.

“Read more.”

To be fair, I’m totally for the drinking and hook ups if that’s what they want to do (and the mom in me is adding , “be safe out there!”), just so long as there isn’t the default humor about it. You can still do comedy about it, just be smart with it. Bring a new angle to it. I loved the article a few days ago about…

Tangential: my kindergartner came home from school yesterday telling me he learned about George Washington, and how he was such a great man!!1! So we had a good long chat about how doing great things (leading our country to win the war) does not mean it's totally okay and forgivable if you do terrible things (like own…

As someone who has edited professors’ article submissions for journal publications, I can say with confidence that we don't necessarily have to look up too high to see into those ivory towers.

Wanda Sykes was my first example of fabulous lady standup!

Hugs to you and your daughter.

Hugs. I'm so glad you got out.

Someone told me once that women are just bad a standup, and shouldn’t do it. The credibility they offered to the argument was that they’re a “HUGE Chelsea Handler fan,” so they're super familiar with the lady comic scene.

I genuinely believe a lot of men/boys put “what I do” and rape into two different categories. Their idea of rape is so narrow that it’s easy to avoid wearing a ski mask and jumping a stranger in a dark alley. So whatever they’re doing isn’t rape! Add that to the whole cultural mix where we treat women’s bodies as…

Skype meetings when you work from home. Pants optional.

Hey, Erik— pretty sure we got all our revenge and then some when we assholishly locked up our Japanese American friends and neighbors in internment camps.

Hugs. I hope this week is better.

Hoagie! What a perfect name. Thank you for sharing with us about him. May you have all the safety and support to honor your grief. He mattered, and so does your heartache.

I too have been self medicating with Netflix. Portlandia has done a lot of good for me this week.