This has been one of my goals since I saw Jon & Kate + Eight go buy a cow during the show’s first season. (Not even joking.) Very not-practical for my life right now, but def something I’d invest in when/if I have more stability.

Yup. Even though my mom was a SAHM for over 20 years, she also had part time jobs. She worked at Woolworth’s in the evenings. She babysat other kids whose moms worked daytime hours. And once the youngest was in school, she went back to college, became a nurse, and began working full time. It wasn’t until I was…

I’m the youngest of many & the only girl. My mom stayed at home for over 20 years then went back to school when I started kindergarten or first grade. She had a lot of self-doubt but studied hard, carried a 4.0, graduated, took her boards, and became an RN within three years. I cannot express the ways my own world…

Hey, Stassa, not sure if anyone else has told you, but something something words grammar I can’t believe you don’t know the meaning of every single word ever or that as a writer you sometimes make mistakes or that you don’t actually look up the definition of every word before using it. Please be perfect next time,…

So, say a person* accidentally no-showed on her stylist once but has only done it that one time and tips like 40% and is pretty fun and nice... would you have an abiding hatred for her?**

ikr?! this was me :(((((

I used to work in an office where the top four leadership positions were held by women. We were a small regional site for a national company that did consumer testing. The previous manager & assistant manager were fired amid an embezzlement scandal (f’real), so the four of us had been working our asses off for like…

As a queer person who has heard the “I was a bigot/asshole until my own child came out, and then I had a change of heart” line a-fucking-lot over the past few years, I’m with you. But as a woman who grew up with a baby boomer father, I think it would’ve been nice if he’d been a bit more thoughtful about what he’d say…

a bill that would protect welfare providers who force them into discredited anti-gay “conversion therapy” programs or anything else motivated by religious faith.

I know I don’t know you and it’s kinda creepy, but all I can think to say is OMG I love you. It strikes me that fat women and trans women have this “you’re only desirable in secret” bullshit in common, and gawd forbid they capitalize on seeing right through the flimsy, fragile logic that deems them & their bodies both…

What a bullshit email. What a bullshit response. This is what we get when “university president” actually means “corporate ceo.” #rage

American slavery is unique from other systems of slavery throughout history in that it took a legal/economic class—slaves—and racialized it such that black came to mean slave. America wrote racialized slavery into law (one drop rule and 3/5 clause) and forced complicity upon free populations and states through…

And America codified slavery’s attachment to race. American slavery is unique in this way.

oh my god, i no longer feel even the slightest guilt for believing him to be the shittiest without ever having read his work.

UGH Ghomeshi is the worst and his face makes me cringe. Just watched The Fifth Estate’s episode The Unmaking of Jian Ghomeshi last night. Interesting because it’s a CBC show doing investigative reporting on the CBC itself as a corporation and public institution. There were certainly things I wished the ep addressed…

I don’t blame these kids’ parents, at least not all of them and definitely not solely them.* All I have to do is recall myself at 18, how naive and insecure I was but how I also totally knew how to game the system. I want my students to know that I’m a person and that I can see right through most of them because I was…

You, arts student, are an adult. Your education is your responsibility, not your mother’s, and she has no place filing complaints on your behalf.

Have you read David Foster Wallace’s “Authority and American Usage”? I love it and think he captures well the inner turmoil that a hardcore descriptivist grammar nerd experiences when noticing “incorrect” or “bad” usage. I taught it in one of my comp classes a couple years ago, and while students got the argument,…

I was born in the late 70s and was going to be named Sarah or Jennifer. But my paternal grandmother passed away unexpectedly just a few weeks before I was born, so I was given her name. It’s a boring, classic Christian name but not one that many people were naming their daughters at that time. I am SO GLAD I’m not a…