You said an absolute word. In so many people eyes a childhood is for white children only. Us folks of color aren’t deserving of the protection, care and innocence that they deny us and actively steal from us. In their perspective our children are no better than the adults and in their minds the adults are no better…

While I was watching Book Club, I realized I had already seen it and completely forgotten. When I remembered, I turned it off. It was not good or memorable.

There’s a term for it (well, at least there’s a term for it in one of my friend groups, wherein we had one such couple): dopplebangers.

“I WILL NOT NOT BE RICH!” is gold though

I have no idea if this was the author’s intent, but I feel like with what we learned yesterday, this name is trying to signal that, like it or not, there will always be something white trash deep inside Renata.

2002. My father-in-law bought 5 days at a “deluxe Mazatlan house on a golf course” at a charity auction. Off we went, the in-laws, my brother-in-law and his nightmare wife, and Mr. Penguin and I.

UGH, food poisoning in the grape vine. Two bad things making life worse.

I was afraid your beers were going to explode in your car. 

I’ve heard about stuff like things like this happening on true crime shows and yikes. I’m happy that her step kids told her because honestly that was truly horrible.

Yeah! The Vulture author tries to make it look like it’s just something that never happens.

I had suddenly left a job one summer. And my wife told me her family had rented a shore house for 2 weeks. And I was more than welcome to come down for a few days. I was 26 years old. As I walk I to the house, her dad stops because I have a case of beer. He informs me that beer or any alcohol is not welcomed into the…

In 2008, my mother spent $5,800 (Canadian) on a weeklong houseboat rental at Sproat Lake as a 20th-wedding anniversary present for my husband. Included: our two young children, and my parents - a package deal from hell. Also: neither my husband or I were consulted about this - we were told the reservation was…

I’m not sure if this counts because technically the vacation was amazing, but I dropped my plane ticket in a canal running to catch the bus to the airport when I spent a week in Amsterdam during college.

My dad’s family had been going to this rinky-dink set of cabins in rural Wisconsin for generations. By the time I was a ‘tween in the 90s, they’d at least been retrofitted with electricity, but you still had to use an outhouse. The nearby lake was great, but my fond summertime memories of bonfires, tubing, and jumping…

My family once decided to drive almost 2.500 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska to a small town in Eastern Washington. We were going to my uncle’s wedding. Taking advantage of the fact the whole family was getting together, there was an intervention planned the day before for another uncle who was an alcoholic. On one hand…

I had a hard time getting through this work with the constant use of the “n” word. Granted, it’s speculative slavery-era time book about vampires but it was a lot for me personally. 

How Long Til Black Future Month is so good!

God I am so sick of people.

Sorry but the day you need a gun for empowerment is the day you probably need to take a long introspection within. And yea, I talk men as well as women.

The SCOTUS plan makes things worse, essentially shortening the bench to the five swing justices. Explicitly linking the other 10 seats to political parties is NOT going to help. Also if he paid attention he’d notice that justices surprise with their rulings all the time. Roberts saved Obamacare’s bacon right out of…