Same! Except it wound up on my back, I looked over my shoulder to see these two legs peeking over- then my boss hit me with a broom to get it off me. And both of us stamped it into spider mush. Good times.

I was walking up the hill I lived on in Honolulu. I kept feeling this weird tickling sensation around my knee—I was wearing bluejeans. I kept kind of scratching at it, figuring it was a loose thread or something with my pants. Finally I just stopped on the sidewalk, reached up my pants leg to see what I could find,…

I’ve told this story somewhere here before and people were horrified, so here goes. Given where I live I have many, many horrible stories about bugs/spiders but this was the worst experience. I was walking out to my car at 6am to go to work, texting a friend of mine (hint, never text and walk), when I walked in to a…

That DC Urban Mom forum/list serve is literally the bridge under which all the trolls live. It can be an entertaining read.

Nothing is funnier than hearing men talk about something they know nothing about. “No, no bro, I swear, she had, like sextuple D’s!” Sure, bro. Sure.

This was my exact thought

Anna Merlan is my spirit animal.