I absolutely see where this guy is coming from, though!! (ETA: /sarcasm) I’m due on August 22nd and I’m REALLY hoping he comes early and arrives DURING the totality on August 21st. That’s how you get superpowers, right? Right. I’m going to spawn motherfucking Superman, you just watch. Only caveat is that the hospital…

Everyone knows it’s BANANA, not lemon, that’s the subject of the most annoying knock-knock joke in the world. Zero stars, kid. Zero stars.

As a pregnant archaeologist (by trade, but I’m working elsewhere out of necessity), this is my new jam for the summer.

Stay tuned for her second book, “Woman Laughing Alone with Salad.”

It’s been a challenge for me too! I think part of it is that for the past 4 years I have not weighed myself at home and blind-weighed at the doctor. It has been sort of a “crutch” for me to not know numbers. Losing that crutch and dealing with a 25-35 lb weight gain at the same time has proven to be...... difficult,…

Oh wow, thank you so much for bringing this up. I’m horribly vain insecure (lasting side effect of a former eating disorder) and I’m ALREADY anxiously planning postpartum workouts (and I’m 6 months in). Thanks for the perspective and the warning. Rest, rest, rest.

It’s so hard to tell, since that’s a pretty common response when it comes to young, white, male athletes. I have a hard time giving people the benefit of the doubt any more.

If this rule applies to them, aka they’ve been convicted of a sexual violence felony, then they’ve clearly already ruined another person’s life in a FAR more traumatizing way than “Boo, I can’t play sportsball.” Miss me with that BS please.

I figured that the sort of job where I got a big raise or promotion would probably be too demanding to take vacations.

Shit, I’m not hip with the lingo, guys. >.<

Sorry, smoking WHAT out of a bong???? I’m deathly allergic to ragweed and goldenrod. Was this a Thing(TM) that kids do? Does it really get you high? All I can imagine it doing is giving you one hell of an allergic reaction for anyone who has ever had hay fever. Someone please advise, my parents had fields full of it…

As soon as I learned (a few weeks ago) that my baby is a boy, I’ve been thinking a lot about this subject. I’m hoping that his presidency will be short-lived and that these years are only a vague memory for him (as George H. W. Bush is only a vague memory for me). I have always been concerned about raising my son in a…

I’ve never thought to worry about watching gory TV shows, but one of the silly things that has popped into my head during my pregnancy is, “I should try not to sing off-key, lest my baby be born tone deaf.” Totally nuts? Yep. But as a musician and a singer, belting out Adele in the car is a regular occurrence, and the…

Aaaaaaaaaah!

Okay, so serious question here. I’m just now trying to get pregnant and my periods are suuuper irregular (thanks, 10 years of pills!) so Clue (the app I’m using) is probably not accurate, and I realize that. I never would have realized that getting pregnant was so difficult, given the “gloom-and-doom” tones of sex ed…

So you’re saying he’s Bobby Newport?

Lmao, that was also me as a child. I was pretty cynical for a toddler.

I devour every single article in this series with gusto each Monday, but I must say, this might be my favorite one in quite a while!

Fellow marathoner here, I feel like I’ve been blessed with iron toenails, because not once have any of my toenails completely fallen off. I’m not sure if I’m actually Supergirl, or if maybe my shoes (the awkward fashion fails that we call Vibrams) just don’t cause the rubbing that “normal” shoes do.

So... could I feasibly just skip the placebo week and continue taking oral contraceptives through the month, and do exactly the same thing?