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Are there really school districts that still don’t start until after Labor Day? My kids have been in school for two weeks already and so have all the kids I know (in several different states).

This is kinda triggering for me, bc we are almost at the 30-year mark. It’s probably not funny, or strange, but it will be cathartic to write.

When my son passed away, he was 14 months old and a friend had brought his young daughter up from KY for the funeral. It was late January and she had never seen snow so she started doing snow angels and playing in the snow at the cemetery. The other kids who were there were looking at their parents for the same…

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

Many years ago one of my very good friends died suddenly. The circumstances were pretty bad but he had this super cool hippie mom. His mom was the mom who’s house we always wanted to hang out at as teenager. So when he died she decided to bring him home and some friends made him a pine box and she decorated it with…

Hahaha I love that! My mom’s maiden name is - no joke - Loser. Pronounced “low-sure.” She played a lot of sports growing up and had to deal with constant taunting. And my grandpa was all offended when my uncle added an I to his last name to avoid all that for his own kids! Side note: my mom was also almost named Gay.…

I was in community college in the early 90s. I wanted to go to a local comedy club to see a particular comedian. It’s one of those cellar type places in princeton, nj and it was like a cover charge and a 4 drink minimum which my dad wasn’t super thrilled about but I couldn’t get in without him since I was still under…

*waves*
Female police cadet here. I think it’s very important that we have diverse police departments, women and minorities included. Do we have a lot of work to do to improve our current departments? Yes. But we can do this!

Avid traveler on a budget and, sorry, I’m not down with these tips. Ok, that’s wrong: I agree with the last one, particularly since I just got back from a trip to tourist-laden hell— er, Italy.

That scarf has a purpose: it’s the “Elegant silk sash designed by Anne Rothschild”!!! My mom was a L’eggs woman in the 70s/80s. My sister and I would put the plastic egg halves under our shirts and pretend they were boobs. I don't know why I felt the need to tell you that.

lol fuck off with this. there’s nothing wrong with having a nanny. there are shitty parents with nannies and shitty parents without nannies. this is malarkey.

The fact that these were the first comments loaded, I have faith for humanity.

Oh for shit’s sake, abortions are far more humane than what she’s totally fine with people doing to wolves and bears.

Oh give me a fucking break. People can care about more than one thing at a time.

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I don’t think this counts because I was working at a ‘summer camp’ type thing and I’ve personally never attended one, but I’ll list this anyway.

Totally unnecessary. You’re a jerk.

wrenchingly?

These photographs are very Kate Chopin, The Awakening.