Never admit to anything to anyone official. Ever. As you’ve learned, anything even slightly incriminating can be twisted and turned against you. Best bet is not to talk to anyone without an advocate of some sort with you, but barring that, never admit to any flaws or weakness. There’s a time and a place for that and…

My husband didn't realize how prevalent it was, and was shocked at how blasé I was about the dick pic situation. You see more than about 4 random dicks, you stop even caring that much.

Happened to me earlier this week! It's awesome!

My mom is a crazy person who tells everyone that my therapist brainwashed me to turn me against her. Because it’s definitely not that she’s done terrible things. Brainwashing makes way more sense. Le sigh. Currently I'm 30 weeks into a very high risk pregnancy that she has not acknowledged in any way.

I'm doing this now, because I'm having a high risk pregnancy and don't want to be trying to figure stuff out if it goes south. It's super depressing but also fairly simple if, like me, you don't have a ton of complex instructions/property. Poverty for the win, for once.

I can’t understand it unless something really weird was going on. I call shenanigans on this entire situation.

I had a coworker who I swear to God birthed Quasimodo. I felt for her.

That's true, and very scary. The corollary to my standard rule (do not compare things that are not genocide to genocide) is that the best way to prevent genocide is to see it coming and call it out early and intensely. Trump has some very, very dangerous rhetoric. When I see people who say, oh, he's posturing, he's…

There’s a massive documentary called “Shoah” and it covers that kind of thing, whole villages just gone. It’s intense watching but very good. The part that haunted me the most was this kid, the Nazis liked him and would teach him drinking songs, stuff like that. He survived the holocaust and got out. They brought him…

I’m not sure why, but I think I hate this more than Dear Future Husband.

My synagogue sends out weekly emails, and they start warning about holidays about a month in advance, especially if there’s an activity or ceremony involved. My rabbi always says we’re a great place for people who aren’t a fan of organized religion, because we’re all barely holding it together. I think that’s why they…

I think a solid standing rule for society is not to compare things that aren’t genocide to genocide. It seems simple but it’s apparently really hard for some people.

That is easily my least favorite thing I've seen on my Facebook. And I tragically have trump supporters on the PTA that I have to interact with via Facebook. The idea that personal firearms would have stopped the German army from rounding up the Jews is madness. Entire countries fell to the German military machine.…

No, it's the 27th of Nisan every year, so it can be either April or May. It's more often in April, I think. https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/yom-h…

Fun fact: it's also holocaust remembrance day.

Not always. My first set of in laws were assholes to me from the get go—their objection was my being from California and not part of the whole southern thing they had going—-and even after two children they were dicks. They asked me to hand off the children at birthdays and holidays before they took pictures because…

This is so brilliant and I'm sad it didn't occur to me sooner.

We'd get so many false positives from the dogs getting on and off the bed all day.

I use that phrase all the time. And I've never thought about it till now, but it's true that I use it more in situations where I feel outnumbered, where I feel like an outsider.

I swear to god, last summer my eight year old (8!!) got out of the car at the dentists office and had no shoes on. I was completely baffled. She's old enough to read and do multiplication, how the hell did she walk to the car across hot concrete without thinking, oh, you know what I need? Shoes! I really thought she…