“some wonderful and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel.”

I wish everyone would just give Trump a chance. With his great business track record we should be fine. But ultimately I am going to disengage from the news this weekend and just enjoy my upcoming trip to Atlantic City. I got a great airfare on Trump Air and a great room rate at the Trump Taj Mahal. I have dinner…

eight years ago to the day, i thought anything was possible...now, i think, everything is lost.

If this reminds you waaaay too much of an abusive ex, raise your hand. =\

“I’m sorry ma’am. That’s just the sanity filter kicking in.”

I am 64- This is my current Facebook status: I was the third person in my district to vote this morning. My hand shook and my heart pounded when I filled in the oval for the Clinton Kaine electors. My vote is for me, and it’s for my country. But even more than that, my vote is for my four granddaughters, and for my…

Burn the place down?

When I was about 22 ish (back when the Loch Ness monster was just a tadpole) a 60ish man put his hand down my skirt and squeezed my ass at a charity function. My then boyfriend tried to make me tell someone, but all I wanted to do was leave.

Woah.

My grandmother was known in our family as “the psychic,” which was always said half-jokingly, but in truth she always freaked us out with the things she knew. Sometimes it was sweet and cute - we would take turns trying to surprise her with birthday or Christmas gifts, only to have her rightly guess what it was before…

This isn’t my story, personally, but it’s one that has kicked around my family for so long that it definitely feels like it’s mine. It’s been told and re-told, but I do think that the central details are very solid.

Not so much scary, but definitely creepy, and a legendary story in my family.

My father grew up in Florida. His mother died when he was a teenager of lung cancer and in the fullness of time his father was remarried to the woman I would know as my grandmother.

She entered the marriage with a house that had been passed down to her in the middle of an old-growth orange grove. It was a classic old…

Okay, so this is the first real life thing to freak me out in a long time. Here it goes.

We had a friend of the family named Ruth, who had been a college friend of my grandmother and very close to our family. She wasn’t married and didn’t have kids, but she was an infinitely sweet and generous woman who was a very dear auntie to all of us. Ruth also had an amazing house: a sprawling stone house with Tudor…

While i was doing my degree, I had to do some fieldwork, and this entailed spending some time in a quaint UK village for a few weeks. The natives were quite welcoming and it made a nice change from normal coursework, so it was fine.

However, right away, I noticed the villagers were a bit odd about some things. For…

This story happened to my brother (Chris), about two years ago.

I am so tired, and so scared, and frankly disgusted and devastating finding out how many people I know who are okay with and think similarly to Trump. I was lamenting to a friend about finding out how people feel this election, and how I don’t get and hate how I could be friends with people who think like that. It’s…

It’s going to be rough for her but if she has parents who teach her that she doesn’t have to take harassment and assault that will make things much easier. So many of us took the harassment and assault because we were taught that it’s our fault, that it wasn’t that bad, that we are hysterical, etc. It took most of us…

I wept at my desk as I listened. Too much of what Michelle said resonated. I remembered the times when I was followed to my car by a man I did not know. The times when a strange man stared just a little too long. The time when a man asked to see my chest in exchange for the product I was buying. The times (yes,…