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Nope! Apparently there are many babies born in hospital elevators :)

Is it her first baby? One of my high school classmates was born in the hospital elevator, but he was his mom’s third child. I think most of the cases in which the mom doesn’t make it to the hospital are second or later babies. The indelicate metaphor for this is that it’s easier to get the second pickle out of the jar.

I read this on my phone this morning, on the bus. It’s devastating, and so very important.

I work full-time and my three-year-old has been in daycare since my maternity leave ended. I sometimes feel crappy about it, but then I remember that our brains basically rewrite themselves, which is why we have so few memories of our very early lives. My goal is to amend my work hours in the future so that I can…

Maybe it’s that I’ve watched “Moana” 10,000 times this winter, but I really like Dwayne Johnson, or at least the animated Polynesian demi-God version of him. I don’t think he should be President, though.

I will, thank you! My mom spent most of her career in the Kentucky school system, and still volunteers at her old elementary school. She’s normally not one to rock the boat, but the disdain that Kentucky’s governor Bevin and his ilk in the legislature have shown teachers has really gotten to her.

And Kentucky teachers are protesting at the State Capital today! My mom, a retired teacher, is among them.

1) Katherine Heigl looks like a decent knitter. Her tension looks good, she chose nice yarns, her projects look nicely finished, and they appear to fit her recipients.

He spits on immigrants, and then he hires loads of them at his properties to perform hard manual labor! Why this hasn’t struck his supporters as hypocrisy is beyond me. But I’m not even sure it’s worth calling him a hypocrite, because to do that I think you have to act against your beliefs. And I’m hard-pressed to…

He is literally a garbage bag floating on the wind.

Okay, I’m literally writing a paper on this right now; for children with normal, healthy immune systems, this will most likely not be a problem. There’s a substantial body of research suggesting that the incidence of auto-immune disorders continues to increase in Western societies because those children receive less…

Weirdly, I don’t think Trump is homophobic per se. I don’t think he has an opinion on it because it doesn’t affect him — he’s not gay, none of his kids are gay, and he has literally no moral code, so he doesn’t care. He has no framework in which it would be acceptable or unacceptable for a baker to refuse to bake a…

Even without knowing any of the details, I’m reflexively Team Wright.

This is why I left Kentucky — it’s full of genuinely good people, many of whom also happen to believe that terrible things happen, and that’s just the way things are, and the only solution is to pray harder. It’s been driving me crazy since I was old enough to read the letters to the editor in the local paper.

I ALSO think it’s a phoenix! Maybe he was reading “Harry Potter” at the time.

“Grits Ain’t Groceries”, by Little Milton. Here he is performing it with Bonnie Raitt on Conan O’Brien.

I spent 8th grade engaged in such a blood feud with another girl over the “best” friendship of a third girl that we all got sent to the guidance counselor daily. I would only go back to 8th grade if A) I know everything I know now and B) I was paid a trillion dollars.

She is so very basic.