Yeah, but this is also a community that thinks posing proudly with large dead fish is a way to hook (pun intended) babes, soooo.....

This is some of the best problem-solving I’ve ever seen.

You might wanna see a doc about that. Even if it was a stone, and it was passed, you could have an infection.

Congratulations on the award!  Of course you deserved it.  I think many of us suffer from “imposter syndrome,” but the award is a big deal.  And I love your dog.

Oh god, perimenopause was fun (bleh) but mine wasn’t painful. Also, I’m a straight-up ibuprofen girl, in part because I drink. Wine and tylenol are a bad combination for your liver. You’re better off with ibuprofen and weed (the latter will relax you).

I got ear pressure equalization tubes for the first time when I was 22 months old and the doctors finally realized that I hadn't learned to speak or walk yet because I couldn't hear and I had an inner ear fluid imbalance that gave me balance issues. I said my first words two weeks after the first surgery and learned…

Congratulations on the award!

Congratulations on the award! That is amazing and I’m absolutely sure it’s deserved. I hear ya loud and clear about grad school fucking up your sense of your abilities, too (also your sense of your work as “no big deal”)—I graduated from my PhD with a sense that a)my friends’ five-year-old would find my dissertation…

I could go for some cream puffs, and some cherries. 

I am a huge fan of what can happen when things need to be used up—and you did a lovely-looking job of taking care of business.

I had tubes when I was 5 or 6 and had my tonsils taken out. Then later they said the tubes must have fallen out, because they couldn’t find them, this was the late 80s/or very early 90s, so maybe I still have tubes in my ears?

A road trip? To wine country? In August?! What an absolute delight, I’m so pleased for you.

Well, I’ve been with my husband for thirty years as of next weekend, but we’ve never been on Instagram—so, thirty-one years?

...I think you look really cute in these? But I hear you—I ordered a white dress in a very similar style from Loft and when it came time to try it on I looked like I just caught dysentery on the Oregon Trail.

Congratulations!  You just reinvented the Department Store! When the large department stores originally started in the early 19th Century, they were intended as a safe place where women could spend the entire day, shopping, eating and eventually getting their hair done and having spa treatments all in one location. 

Since the early 1900s. Ladies who lunch. There's a reason all those old department stores had a restaurant in them.

nordstrom has a bar in my city and out of the blue last night my mother in law mentioned she visited it this week and was so impressed with their craft cocktails. seems like a brilliant strategy, get people buzzed before shopping...

It works very, very well in certain instances. I had a client a few years ago in the high-end clothing sector that modeled its business around this very idea. The associates functioned a bit like personal shoppers and were encouraged to befriend customers.  Lots and lots of complimentary wine was/is involved.  The…

This is Dunder Mifflin Infinity... and the same kind of bullshit marketing-speak I used to hear before I got shit-canned from my old advertising gig for calling out their bullshit marketing-speak.

I think this will be a fad and won’t last long. People have lives, and those lives won’t be spent “just hanging out” in a commercial space of any kind. Not to mention that the pressure of “last quarter capitalism” will take a VERY sideways look at the costs required to maintain people’s interests for longer than the…