Everyone laughs when I tell them stories about being attacked by roosters. I have had runs in with swans and geese but I think roosters win the vicious race because you just don’t expect them to be so terrifying.

In a Montessori school, the children choose “work” that seems like play but is cleverly disguised. They are free to choose any “work” they want but are not free not to choose anything. You would be surprised at how much learning happens while seemingly just playing.

As a proud Montessori kid, I can testify that it honestly makes a fundamental difference in how you think and learn for the rest of your life.

My daughter and I do anti-Christmas card pictures each year (well, for the past few years). We aren’t a stuffy family and it’s our way of giving the finger to establishment and propriety here in the South.

Don’t cry because it’s over, cry because I’m going to grey the shit out of everyone before I go.

I don’t give two shits about whether or not Trump is serious. It’s more terrifying to see a large number of American voters saying “that’s a good idea!” It appears that many Americans, my parents included, support literal fascism.

Oh yeah, the old, “How can you be mad at me, I’m an asshole but at least I admit it!” Like this makes you so evolved.

Once Americans decided that the slaughter of children was less important than an amendment made before semi automatic weapons were even conceived, and consciously voted for (or chose not to vote against) lawmakers that held with the idea I honestly gave up hope.

Once again: http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org

My go to curse is: May every step you take feel like you’re walking on Legos.

“Can You Be Addicted to Your Lip Balm?”

I’m jumping up in down in my chair!! Me too! Me too!

I have an aunt who, despite me kindly telling her I didn’t find her constant Caitlyn Jenner “jokes” funny, kept going with them at our family reunion. So I told her I was making a new drinking game - any time she made a tacky comment I got to pour myself another glass of her expensive wine! I got classy drunk and she…

Hahah right? After the first one he’s kinda like “Man, that didn’t sound like I thought it would...”

What’s your point here? This woman didn’t make a conscious choice to abandon her kid in a moving car. Her body’s fight/flight instinct kicked in and she ejected herself from the car. Yeah, this was a horribly dangerous incident, but she wasn’t in a head space where she could control her response. Hopefully, this…

Mother of three grown sons here. I did it. The key is to raise a decent human being who respects other human beings.

At this point “taken out of context” is pretty much taken out of context. It’s not a magic spell for instant forgiveness

Woman here. What this man did was total bullshit and inexcusable. He needed to be called out, but I don’t think he needed to be publicly shamed. Women are shamed in myriad ways on a daily basis: Breastfeeding in public, not breastfeeding; the way we dress, the careers we choose, decisions we make regarding are…

I continue to struggle with the fact that several of the republican candidates are so clearly brilliant (Jindal- Rhodes Scholar, Cruz- brilliant legal mind, Carson- literally a brain surgeon) but are so, so stupid. If ever there were poster children for not assuming innate talent endows functionality, it’s these…