I am sorry, sweetie. It is a weird time in the world, and the weather has been weird, and sometimes things do not break your way. I am lighting a mind candle for you to pick up a second wind soon.

YOU GUYS. I found out this week that the National Science Foundation is going to give me a $20,000 grant to do my dissertation research. The government is cutting social science research left and right, but somehow I managed to get this money. So I am celebrating with gin and tonics and Netflix.

I just want to share a LOL. I was on the Heritage Foundation’s website (I KNOW, but bear with me) and it says that if you sign up for their mailing list, they promise to “respect your inbox.” And I thought, that’s precisely what conservatives don’t do for women, they don’t respect our “inboxes.”. They want to control…

i am fucking depressed tonight as hell

Anyone else dreading Thanksgiving with your in-laws? My brothers-in-law are two of the worst people I’ve ever met. One is a physically intimidating narcissist who delighted in abusing my husband as a kid, and the other is a raving conservative Limbaugh wannabe who could twist a comment about green beans into an…

I saw Gloria Steinem speak last week. She and Melissa McCarthy in conversation at the Ace Hotel. I wish there was a link to send you. It was SO inspiring and SO hopeful. GS is 81 and kicks ass. MM is funny as fuck. And I want to have them both over for dinner. After the discussion, they opened the floor to questions.…

I signed up for a dating site and am already over that whole idea. I don’t know why I keep getting caught up in the whole “you need a man” bullshit because I don’t. I keep trying to explain to well-meaning friends that I am not any different in real life than I am on FB- I tend to blurt out things that I think are…

What a rotten month. So-o-o not looking forward to next Thursday and the whole family thing.

My sister and I were really not close when we actually lived in the same house (as teenagers). And I think that time period is part of why we are as close as we are now. Like we went in different directions as people and became friends and not just because we were related.

Tonight I am sad and lonely and cold and finding it very difficult to be a Strong Independent Woman Who Finds Strength From Within (TM).

Sisters stories. The good, bad and the ugly. I’m yet again not speaking to mine. We can’t be in the same room for more than an hour without getting into it. is there a point that it’s just healthy to go separate ways or will the relationship be worth fighting for in the future? It's to a point that I get anxiety…

I finally got a job after being off in June! The pay is way better, and they have real benefits! I was all set to negotiate the salary, I was going to start out with I thought would be the top of their range, but then the guy started out with an offer that was 5k more than I was going to ask for. The problem is, now…

Love you all. I sometimes feel so frustrated when looking at the news or social media and how so little has changed in regards to women being respected as equal. The level of ignorance in the world. The lack of compassion.

Hi my lovelies.

Two weeks ago I posted about my boyfriend demanding I have an abortion (after he told me to go off the pill because he wanted children). I went through with the abortion, mostly because I didn’t want to lose him. I didn’t really want to get rid of my baby, but I couldn’t imagine life without him. Everyone told me he…

I mean, I don’t want to call anyone’s mom an asshole, but dang, if the shoe fits...

We would have also accepted “Catholicism.”

If there’s anything hat makes my blood boil hotter than people who automatically dismiss sexual assault victims, it’s the people that say “if you didn’t know it was rape, then it wasn’t rape.”

I’m not mad at this? Treating people who support your endeavors with respect is a good thing.

You were always cute Kat you just needed the Internet to tell you. Soon we may decide you are smart, well dressed or great at baseball. What’s that Kat? You don’t play baseball? That’s not what the Internet said.