I don’t have this specific top, but I have a Land’s End tankini and I have to say I really like it. I was reaaaaallly reluctant to resort to Land End (my 65 year old MOM shops there!) but..... I’m pushing 40 and have a mom bod, so I gave in. Honestly, their suits are really well made and cover in all the right places.

I know when I was in college, a few cast members from The Real World (it was the late 90's ok?) came to speak, so I don’t think it’s uncommon or a new thing to have pop culture “celebs” come to speak. At least the RW people talked about some actual social issues of the time (mostly LGBTQ and safe sex kind of stuff) as…

So true. I’ve always found it ridiculous that a group of people who have zero background in education get to make decisions about everything from curriculum to budgeting to teacher salaries. Most of them are compelled to run for school board because “grrrr my tax dollars!”so they are already biased towards cutting…

That’s because they can be. They know damn well no one is going to do anything about it.

I work in the field of adolescent mental health, and have had countless conversations with kids where they talk about one parent having cheated on the other. Kids aren’t stupid- they know what’s going on, and when a parent cheats, it is incredibly damaging. They feel just as betrayed, hurt, and disgusted as the parent…

I’m the same age as Chelsea Clinton, so we were both going through our pre-teen awkward phases at the same time. I remember painfully well the awful things the GOP said about her because they fed my own adolescent insecurities. If Rush Limbaugh was calling Chelsea a dog, I figured people in my life were probably…

Oh really? Perhaps you’ve forgotten how absolutely horrible the GOP was to Chelsea Clinton?

Yup, my daughter’s rubber ducky is doesn’t have a hole in it, so no water gets in. But this really isn’t a surprise, pretty much any rubber toy like that fills up with mold, whether or not you take it in the bath. Those Sophie the Giraffe teethers are full of bacteria from all the moisture that gets in there from baby…

The first time I spent Christmas with my husband’s family, his stepdad and BIL were showing off their handguns, waving them around...in a room FULL of children. BIL has a concealed carry permit and 3 young children, but he’s totally the type to sleep with a loaded weapon nearby “for protection” (from WHAT!?). I won’t…

Saw him interviewed on CBS Sunday Morning this week and thought the same thing- he looks an old suitcase that fell off the luggage cart and was run over by a 747. On a 105 degree day. And the interview was the same bullshit, entitled, pseudo-intellectual word salad he’s been spewing out in his other interviews.

I can’t get past the camel toe in pic #3. That cannot be comfortable or healthy.

I have a theory that Ivanka actually looks just like Eric Trump, she’s just had lots of plastic surgery and makeup wizardry to cover it up. She looks ok from far away, but if you happen to catch one of the rare close-up pics of her...yeeeessshhh!

So the same assholes who were shitting bricks over Kathy Griffin’s photo of herself holding up Trump’s head are now putting out images of CHILDREN who survived a traumatic massacre being shot in the head!? Sure, that makes total sense.

We got a very solid antique oak 5-leg table that seats 12 from a resale store for like $150. And it is very safe. No nails or collapsing chairs.

Ahh gotcha. I know it varies a little by state, but often once a kid is a teenager (even if they aren’t 18) the courts will listen to them about which parent they would prefer to live with. Of course that still costs you money in order to go to court and have that changed, and it puts the kid in the awkward position…

Sorry, this is a late post, but just wanted to say hang in there. Are you doing your program part-time? I did mine full time (and 12 years later I’m still drowning in student loan debt) and I can tell you, SW grad school is really just a bunch of hoop-jumping and really has little application to what you actually do…

Sorry, I’m late to this since SNS was posted too late for me last night, but if his mom isn’t properly treating his diabetes, the court needs to get involved. If I come across that in my professional role, it’s a mandatory report to CPS. Does anyone at his school know that’s happening? If not, they should, because…

YES! The keep-away scene with the phone always infuriates me. You don’t like your friend’s demanding job? Fine. Keep your damn mouth shut and support her anyway, because that’s what friends do. Instead they literally jeopardize her job by stealing her phone, mocking her, and then act all butthurt when she doesn’t…

Exactly. In real life there was a decent age difference (and a 17 year old marrying a 27 year old nowadays would be weird, but not so much back then), but nothing like the inappropriately wide difference portrayed on the show. But then again, I hated the whole show because it wasn’t true to the books.

It’s a little ways outside of Columbus going towards Sun Prairie, on the right. My poor husband has to pass them every day on the way to work.