This gift wasn’t given to me personally but it was still pretty awful from my perspective:

I mostly read stupid romance novels but the big non-fiction book of this year for me was Michelle Obama’s Becoming. I did a review on my YouTube channel (it’s just getting started so don’t make too many nasty comments about how horrible the editing is ;).

Drink a glass or two of water before each meal, and clean your plate in the following manner: protein, veggies, carbs, other. A small recent study published by the American Diabetes Association found that people who ate their protein first experienced less hunger, especially cravings, more stable blood glucose and…

Were you willing to take clients to titty bars? I'm going to say no you weren't willing to do that 

There is a financial motherhood penalty but I am glad you did not experience it.

Dingdingding, we have a winner. How fair is it to attribute a wage gap to “choosing to focus on families” if it’s not really the employee’s choice? Men have children, too, but somehow fatherhood doesn’t have the same impact on earnings and advancement. We don’t hear about employers trying not to hire men in their 20's…

Framing motherhood as voluntary is fairly problematic for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the tricky economic/policy situation that sub-replacement birth rates result in, and framing the prioritization of family over career in service of motherhood comes perilously close to equivalency with the former. I think…

1). Do women choose to leave their careers to focus on their families or are women expected to choose between their careers and their families when men are not? Ergo, if a woman wants to become a mother, does she really have a choice between her career and motherhood?

When has PETA ever been “effective?”

All of the stars for this gem. I miss him. He was so amazingly talented. 

Give it up Linds. This is my theme song.

Lindsay looks, dresses, sounds, and dances like a desperate and horny 55 year old alcoholic cougar and I’m here for it.

What is “all” supposed to be? I thought it basically meant career and kids.  Is it much more than that?

It’s not really a question of why women would aspire to having it all, so much as what women need to do to escape the harsh societal judgement of having only a *part* of “it”. The whole song and dance of whore v. virgin, job v. stay-at-home, kids v. no kids, blah blah blah blah blah. The only way women can “win” is…

My middle school guidance counselor said I’d never finish high school because I didn't have great grades. Not only did I finish high school AND college, but I have a graduate degree with work experience in all three branches of the federal government. I went ballistic when she and another teacher who bullied me tried…

And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that shit doesn’t work all the time.

Michelle Obama has mastered the art of talking with an audience like they are her sorority sisters. Our best friend in chief. 

I guess I”d like to say that it’s getting better — most of the kids on the spectrum at our school are fully integrated — but then, I’m one of the integrating families. We are part of a neurodivergent community that runs a wide gamut of differences, and some of those neurodivergences have co-morbidities with different…

What kind of chickens do you have? A friend has Plymouth Rock Chickens and they are adorable.