Cultural appropriation has jumped the shark.

I have a dear friend who has lost almost every single female family member on her mother’s side to breast cancer- including her mother. There are no words to describe the fear she suffers.

GSA and BSA have existed for more than 100 years. This has nothing to do with modern parenting. There is value in working as a team to accomplish goals and in having role models other than your parents.

I don’t think they need to join the Boy Scouts. I actually feel like some boy-only and girl-only activities are good for kids (and everyone), especially at this age. I have a 10 year old girl right now, and a 12 year old boy. 5th and 6th grade girls are EXTREMELY assertive and will absolutely take over. That isn’t to…

My mother’s (and step-mother’s) experience with menopause has mostly been hot flashes. My mom complains about that, but nothing else really. For my stepmom it was mostly a sweating problem. She uses a wild yam cream or something that she says helps. I already get hot very easily and sweat a lot, so I suppose it will…

You are thrown into immediate menopause when you have your ovaries removed. Natural menopause can take as long as 10 years, but also can take only a couple for some people. They kind of slow down and draw to a close vs. immediately slamming the door shut with the oophorectomy.

You seem awfully invested in this.

Or maybe she’s embracing it because it means she is alive and healthy. Little things bother you far less when you know the alternatives.

It’s one thing when no alternative for girls exists. But there IS an alternative. Girl Scouts can and do all the same outdoor things that Boy Scouts do. If their local troop isn’t doing it, then a parent of one of these girls needs to step up and help them organize such events or start a troop of their own. Perhaps…

I want my beauty box round up and mall makeovers!!!

Makes you wonder if the cartouches read “Up top Down low”

Who knows? There doesn’t seem to be much rhyme or reason for such things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m super stoked to know you are following me, though. /highfive

Jia is taking over? ....Sigh.

I’d be happier if I could get out of the damn greys on The Slot. It’s like you have to promise your firstborn.

So every writer I still liked is leaving and 2 of the subblogs I liked best are closing. Since they REFUSE to ungrey me on The Slot for some reason (me and many others who’d love to contribute more meaningfully it seems), not much is going to keep me coming back. I really dislike several of the newer writers. Sloppy…

Milihelen is going away??? NOOOOOOOOOO

How many do you think would write Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan?

Plenty of heartless assholes have been spewing racist nonsense about refugees, but I’m actually shocked that someone would point to the concentration camps our government put people in as a GOOD thing. Japanese internment has long been considered a blight upon our history, a grave mistake never to be repeated. I’ve…

I have 3 good friends that are Muslim. None wear a headscarf, but all attend mosque and follow dietary rules and religious observances. They are not first generation Americans and one is not of Middle Eastern descent, so that probably plays a role.