Definitely do it! And go somewhere fancy for tea afterward. :D 

Do you know about Curvy Kate? If not, you should! 

I’m so sorry for all you’ve been through, and making peace with your body after a miscarriage and all the crap that goes with that can’t be easy.

Hey fellow Jezzies! Monday is my dissertation defense. I have had huge blocks preparing myself for it—my presentation, even reading my dissertation to make sure I’m prepared!

I figure I’ll sink into it all tomorrow. Honestly, my entire program has been preparation for this moment, and I feel as prepared as I am going…

That stuff isn’t going away. It’s the super expensive, high end stuff that’s going away.

They have a wide range of popular athleisure wear that will probably continue to butter their bread. They’re only closing their high end line. A lot of people also may not know that they’ve been quietly becoming more size inclusive over the years. I assume they’ll keep all that stuff? It sounds like they’re just…

OH! I also want to recommend something that helped me. It’s a chiropractic technique for baby turning called the Webster technique. I don’t know where you live, but if you can find a chiropractor who knows it, it will be well worth the visits. I did Webster technique along with all the spinning babies stuff to the…

My mother walked in on me being sexually abused by a (male) babysitter and then later lectured me about how “that’s not what Jesus wants you to do.”

This could have been written so carelessly, but I feel like you really honored the discussion, and highlighted some important things. And it feels like a piece that honors survivors. I’m sitting here welling up because it’s so important. Childhood sexual abuse is so common, and the best thing we can do is train our…

I did all the spinning babies stuff at 36 weeks and my baby flipped. That shit works! Finding a board you can lie down on is the hardest part I think. Also my mom said that I was breech until something like 39 weeks and that when I finally flipped it was THE WORST but also good. That was back in the day when they…

And remember it’s not even 7%, it’s 7% on top of CPI!

I don’t know if that’s the right question. I tell people not to do a PhD unless they can’t imagine their lives without it.

I submitted my final dissertation draft yesterday, whew! It’s now going through a series of final hurdles, not out of the woods yet.

It’s hilarious when people say “oh! you’re done with your dissertation! it must be so great to relax!”

And I’m just like

Awesome!

Congratulations! That’s so great! What a cutiepie! The first few weeks are exhausting and can be awful in so many ways, but are also full of wonder and transformation.

One of the nice thing about being out of the grays is being able to dismiss trolls in the grays. BYE. This post is of course bringing them out of the woodwork.

They aren’t pro-birth, either. I hate that term. They gut funding for pregnancy and perinatal and postpartum care, they’re not pro-birth. They’re in favor of controlling women’s bodies. After all, these are the same people who also support abstinence-only education, and are against equal pay/equal rights laws for…

I record videos of my adorable 3yo doing adorable 3yo things all the time, and this usually includes a video wherein I ask him to explain what he’s doing, and sometimes followed by what he thinks about various things in life. It’s the best. I wish sincerely that I had recorded video of him in his first week of life,…

That headline bothers me. These laws aren’t in any way “pro-life,” and journalists putting that term in headlines, even if it’s a quote, are complicit in spreading propaganda.

Really they’re desperate for right-leaning moderate and conservative Midwesterners’ attention, which is the audience for these.