For deeply discounted pricing, I allow students to do dental work on me. It is often painful, kinda humiliating, and exhausting in a mentally, physically, and financial way. My choice is a) do it or b) don’t do it, and some shit needs to be done. You can’t walk up to someone and say, “I demand you do free work on me…

I’m the adult child of an alcoholic. I’ve spent my childhood pouring my mother back into bed, trying to keep her from feeding chocolate to dogs, listening to the frankly bizarre BS that would fall out of her mouth. From the age of six I’ve been my mom’s adult. She gets drunk now and complains that I won’t give her…