Some of my lit students were telling celebrity stories recently, and I happily talked about the time I met Junot Diaz.

Yes! I am 41 (42 in December) and have a 16-year old daughter, and people routinely think I was a teen mom.

Okay, maybe not the best perk of not aging...

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Part of what was so shitty about it was that so many people defended that shit. What the actual fuck.

Hey—you can use those expired EpiPens to practice on fruit (plums work well). It helped my kids all learn how to give their sister a shot if she needed it.

With my third, I had her at 4:10 am, then went home at about 7:30 pm. I had no complications and everything was good, so I went home.

I grew up watching Sesame Street as a kid (I'm 41 now), and I've always loved it but thought that my nostalgia for it was generational: maybe something about growing up in the 70s, or being a Gen Xer, or something like that.

But then a few weeks ago, I overheard my 16-year old reminiscing about Sesame Street with her…

I think it's worth reminding those who say things like, "Well, it's *legal,*" followed by a defense of UO, that there are two epidemics on college campuses right now: sexual assaults and mishandling and sexual assaults. Many, many colleges and universities are under investigation because of rampant problems with…

But there are already plenty of laws in place to protect those who are accused. The UO could have gone the traditional route and gotten information via the courts.

They may have been accessed, though most lawyers in this situation would motion to "quash" the subpoena. I've also read that many times a therapist will give an overview/summary of the client's records that are pertinent—not the whole thing (this is what her therapist argued for previously).

My take is that it's my job to call out crap in my communities when I see it happen. Example: a friend says something that is racist or harmful. Even though I'm white, it's my job to help my community grow, and to hold community members to a higher standard. It's not, say, a person of color's job to take on every…

post-separation of my 10-year marriage, and I admit I was in a bad place (which was not helped by Christian dude with crazy rules).

I briefly (okay, 8 months) dated a guy who was very Christian (okay, except for the pre-marital sex part), and he hated all occasions of taking the Lord's name in vain.

My sense (I wasn't with her when the counselor told her this) was that "endanger" meant actual danger—like people would find out who she was, threaten her, etc.


As a side note: I'm friends with her via social media and she's doing very well now, so at least there is that happy post script.

I have type AB blood, so that means that I can't have caffeine or alcohol? Oh, hell no.

I went to grad school at UO, then adjuncted for 3 years there. One term, I had a student come to my office and tell me that her (football player) boyfriend had repeated raped her. I took her to the health center, but later found out a counselor told her not to report it (and did not report it apparently) because it…

I wrote an essay for an online pub a few years ago that detailed, in part, my sexual assault. I had several guys find my work email address and email me about it in, well, not nice terms. That's the worst that's happened, though I've had other smaller harassments.

By contrast, my male writer friends have almost never…