I actually googled “is it bad that everyone gets on my nerves” yesterday

Two things:

thank you. as a fellow social worker, this. your and my level of “filthy” and “messy” is not someone else’s. when i started in child welfare, i too, was incredibly indigent that any child would be removed from a home for being ‘messy’, but in my experience, like you said, that’s simply not the case. in their eyes, the…

There is a difference between a messy house and a filthy house. In my years working in the child welfare system, in two different states, I have never had a case that just involves a “messy house”. I’ve never had cases where children are removed solely based on the home environment except for cases where the parent is…

This is all going back to what I said on the last post: this isn’t about the parents, it’s about the kids. Hire a housekeeper… for the kids.

I’ll have you know I waste time in myriad ways-putting crap on my face is just one of them, and it’s nowhere close to being the most frivolous.

I am playing Praying and Woman on repeat in the car. I never really paid much attention to Kesha before — as a 40 yr old divorced mom, I wasn’t exactly her target audience. But I connected so deeply with Praying. After spending nearly 3 years untangling myself from an abusive husband who I still have to deal with…

...No. If Philip Roth was allowed to write the same fucking story over and over, about boring, ruthless men on navel-gazing quests for sexual fulfillment — and win prizes for it — and be called one of the greatest writers of his generation — I think we as a culture can afford Beyoncé space to take what is personal to h…

Isn’t the point to keep themselves inside the house, behind the wall? GO IN THERE, NO ONE WANTS TO LOOK AT YOU.

Counterpoint: She is a professional entertainer, and this entertained me.

three cousins in one week is pretty weird.