Here is my favorite one from the World Cup because of the story behind it. England manager Gareth Southgate consoling Colombia’s Mateus Uribe moments after Uribe’s crucial missed penalty in England’s shootout win over Colombia. It’s unique in that 22 years ago, Southgate missed a shootout kick against Germany that led…
“What am I gonna do, he may deny it, it’s one of those things. All I can do is say, ‘Did you?’ and ‘Don’t do it again.’”
Your boss isn’t owed any information on your family planning desires! Keep up the good work at work and good luck with baby.
I got promoted in April and found out 2 weeks later I’m pregnant (luckily I’d already signed the contract). But I haven’t told my boss yet (she also just got promoted- her into a higher role, me into her previous role) because she is NOT going to take the news well. And she was already pretty hostile when I had my…
Don’t tell her. I got promoted right before I adopted a newborn, and I know things would be different if I’d had the baby before the promotion. You owe her nothing. Get yours.
What you are doing is illegal and you will face consequences for it eventually.
I don't know why millennials aren't having children. There must be some reason...
Old family members: So when are you gonna have a baby?
“Well, this isn’t hauntingly familiar or anything,” says my (late) German Jewish grandfather who served in the German military and, then, didn’t.
Because ultimately, it’s not about assimilation: it’s about punishing these immigrants for simply being who they are.
If they want these people to assimilate more why don’t they offer free schooling for the whole families. Language courses, Civics courses and perhaps job/technical training for adults and teens? These seem like better things to help assimilation and economic independence for people. Breaking language barriers and…
Ellie, I had lunch with Linc Chaffee on an island when I was a child. He was exactly as memorable as you would imagine; which is to say, I had to ask my dad a couple weeks ago whether or not Linc Chaffee was actually at that lunch or not.
Exactly. I have the same thought about what’s going on in the ICE detention centers. You rip a kid away from his parents and make him live in a cage with no social contact? You’re basically making a sociopath.
I know I’ve told this story before, but my mother was almost another Geraldine Santoro. Well before Roe, when she was still in her early 20s, she had to get a back-alley abortion. She told me the story once, of waking up in a pool of her own blood in a hotel room, alone. The person who’d done the procedure had already…
This may be heresay, but I once dated a woman who went to UPenn and had worked in the admissions office as a student. When we were dating (2008, so before the Trumps were anything other than a tv family), she mentioned that she saw Ivanka’s files and saw that she had an SAT score in the 1000s.
Median SAT score for…
If you like (time-traveling) rom-coms with British leads, check out About Time! I watched it on a plane and it is very satisfying. Much better than Leap Year, which I forced myself to watch because I love Matthew Goode, but in the end was disappointed by.
“When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried Ariana Grande.”
Same — it’s one of the few rom coms I can stand to watch every few months with my grandma, who watches the same DVDs over and over again, interspersed with Hallmark movies. Leap Year is definitely in rotation with You’ve Got Mail/First Wives Club/Notting Hill/Runaway Bride/27 Dresses when I visit her.
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