That’s terrible! My cousin is a teacher, and she often goes to homebound students’ houses after school is over so they don’t fall behind. Our district only sent the courts after you if you skipped school; if you had a doctor’s note or something, it was fine. My high school is not handicapped accessible (two buildings,…

Too much coal dust?

Yeah, there’s definitely a better way to handle non-violent offenders. I actually didn’t intend to ignore my parking tickets. I got a bunch of them when I was working for a lawyer for $7/hour and couldn’t afford garage parking (and it wasn’t covered by my employer). I got a letter saying I owed $184, so I sent a money…

You’d be right. I spent a night in jail over unpaid parking tickets, and almost everyone there was there for non-violent offenses (pot possession, writing bad checks, etc.). There was only one young woman there for something truly awful (the death of her infant son).

I’m from PA, and our local magisterial court fines kids $209 per incident for truancy. It makes no sense. The truant kids are the ones most likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds; you’re going to fine them hundreds of dollars instead of try to help them? In my neighbor’s case, the little boy couldn’t get to…

It’s amazing. When you’re done with it, watch “Shenandoah,” a documentary about a racially motivated killing about 90 minutes from where the Kids for Cash scandal went down.

I thought I’d seen tantrums, but I didn’t *really* see a tantrum until my cousin and I took her nephew to the county fair. He was obsessed with Wizard of Oz at the time, and of course they just had to have an Oz-themed carnival game. Every time we tried to pull him away, he’d scream bloody murder and throw himself on…

Howdy, former neighbor. I’m from Wilkes-Barre.

Believe it or not, I spent 30+ years in Pennsylvania, but I’ve only been to Philly twice. Once for the flower show and once to go to the zoo.

I just went to Old Town for the first time about a week ago. I really like it! I know someone who moved away from ABQ because she said there was nothing to do, but I love it here. I guess it depends on where you’ve lived. I came here from a shithole in Pennsylvania. They roll up the sidewalks at 6:00, and there’s…

Oh, I’m sure I’ll cry. I have a bad habit of volunteering to make a ton of food for parties/events. One time, I had to make enough deviled eggs to feed 40 people, which involves boiling/peeling 60 eggs, slicing them all in half, scooping the yolks out and mixing them with the other ingredients, and then filling all…

I just moved to Albuquerque, so I’m not too familiar with things to do yet, but feel free to keep my user name in mind and get in touch if you need directions or have car trouble or anything like that.

I haven’t made anything recently, but next week, I’m making enough chocolate cake with buttercream icing to feed 120 people. My husband and I are helping at an Easter party for women who have been incarcerated and/or affected by domestic violence, and the coordinator said they were really in need of a dessert. I was…

Thank you so much for sharing. I hope your complications resolve, or at least improve, so that you don’t have to worry so much. This topic is a tough one. My OB/GYN told me I shouldn’t get pregnant, or else I’d have to spend six months in the hospital, and there’s a very good chance I and/or the baby would die anyway.…

I wish my mom had been more like you! Between getting picked on for having boobs to having someone hit me in the head with his trombone mute almost every day (that sucker really hurt), junior high was the worst time of my life. I could have used a parent that didn’t dismiss it as “boys will be boys” behavior.

Is it Walton’s Fancy & Staple? I’m going to Austin for a meeting within the next few months (my first time in Austin), and I’d like to check it out.

My high school is being torn down next year because no one ever wanted to spend any money maintaining it. Now they have to spend $120 million on a new school. Additionally, they had to spend $8 million to renovate an unused elementary school to use while the new school is under construction. But wait...the elementary…

I understand that. I’m saying that it shouldn’t even be experimental.

Is your friend’s mother also Carrie White’s mother? Because that really does sound like something she would say while wailing about dirtypillows.

What “insane abuses” are you talking about? Is there a doctor running around giving abortions to women against their will? That’s the only thing I could possibly think of that would constitute an “insane abuse.”