One year when I was working in fine dining, our restaurant had hosted a corporate Christmas party (one of many that holiday season). It was the usual slog but nothing untoward happened beyond a very drunk, very little old man following me around all night telling me I look like a ballet dancer...do I dance...can he…

A colleague of mine who has insurance just broke her arm. After insurance, the bill was $9000. Yes. We worry about medical debt constantly.

I’m over the moon about this. Love the book, hate the musical. 

True. But we did make it worse. 

That’s because you Canuck Heathens don’t have the FREEDOM to be oppressed by other peoples’ religiosity.  

Change your garage code, dude. 

The original line-up (minus Kevin) played the Fest in Gainesville last year. I practically cried through their entire show...Reinventing Axl from start to finish.  

Situational depression is a part of being human...it’s also a part of being human that can be helped with the short-term use of antidepressants, talk therapy, or meditation. It can be brutal especially when connected to grief and loss of identity (divorce, trauma, migration). I’m not sure why it needs to be a “mental…

Ennui is just situational deplression as experienced by people with literary educations. It’s not a mystery. 

Between the lines, “People in this country will continue to die by the hands of my ad hoc brownshirts until no one criticizes me any longer.” 

THIS. I really enjoyed my pregnancy (up until the premature labor and near dying). I love being a mom but one works for us. 

My MIL likes to get drunk and cry about how she “guesses it’s ok” if she only gets one grandchild despite the fact that the one was born almost seven weeks early and I almost died. 

You hang out with some really unpleasant people. 

Let me help you with that headline:

I eat the patented mom breakfast of the crusts I’ve cut off the kiddos sandwich, strawberry tops, and a couple bites of goldfish crackers. 

It should be against the law to have bare feet on an airplane.

I wake up at six and swear to God I will never talk to you on an airplane...and I will glare at you if you ask me about the book I’m reading. 

Eh...I don’t have a nanny or a housekeeper but I do know that if I don’t get up at six then I won’t have time to get my daughter’s lunch ready, the dog walked, coffee made, and get through the shower and dressed before I have to get the kid up and ready for school. If I’m lucky I can cram in a few pages of reading or…

In my small friend circle of women, I’m the one who has had the fewest issues with men. I’ve been raped once (ex-bf) and been catcalled a time or two. I’ve never met any woman who never had ANY bad experiences with men but I have met women who seem to have nothing but bad experiences with them. 

It is 2004. I am in graduate school and my boyfriend is a DJ. One night after the club closed it was clear the party wasn’t really over so my sister and I decide to invite everyone to our house. My DJ-BF just packs his stuff up at the club and brings it to my house. We end up with about a hundred people in our two…