Oh course this is in Gilmer County.

I just went through this. My daughter is 9 and we used the book “The Care and Keeping of You: the Body Book for Girls”. It’s written by the American Girl book people. It’s very age appropriate for 9 years old and nicely illustrated with girls of all types and sizes with a question and answer portion at the end of each…

Yes, the early archaeologists, mostly men, thought these were lunar calendars and tracking the phases of the moon. It took a woman to inform them otherwise, as the lunar month is 29.5 days, not 28.

In the U.S., early on a number of mound sites were excavated and found to have a number of female burials. “Aha! Virgins!” was the interpretation. My feminist archaeology professor disagreed, she had doubt that anyone could tell someone was a virgin from just their skeletal remains.

How sites are interpreted is a problem everywhere. Archaeology is predominantly a male dominated field and as such sites are interpreted from that perspective. Even cave art is seen as a male only activity, though recent re-analysis of cave art using finger length ratio shows it was probable that some women were…

This isn’t just a problem at sporting events. A few years ago I was at a concert in Oakland, California. I was standing in line to get in and a security guard walked by with his co-workers, reached out and grabbed my breast. Did it just because he could and laughed about it to his buddies.

I don’t disagree. However, last week on Galavant they did a parody of that song using Zombies that was down right inspired.

No joke. Timothy Ormudson was at his best tonight.

Thank you much. I didn’t want to try again after losing both pregnancies. It was so heartbreaking, but my husband convinced me to try one last time. I was 42 when I conceived my youngest daughter and so concerned that I had CVS testing early on at 11 weeks. This decision to test gave me proof that she was going to be…

Thank you so much. It was rough, and I carried the pain for a long time. It made bonding to my youngest daughter a bit harder than it should have been. I kept worrying that some how I’d lose her too, after losing the two previous pregnancies. It got better after she reached a few months old and the fear subsided. I…

Thanks so much. I know most people have never heard of a molar pregnancy or knew what caused it. I didn’t want anyone to feel as though it was a lecture in biology. It’s just one of those crazy things that can happen for no reason. Fortunately it’s still very rare and I hope that no one takes away that it is likely to…

I had to terminate a pregnancy due to life threatening problem. I had a molar pregnancy, a deformity caused by a problem during conception. In a molar pregnancy the sperm kicks out the egg/mother’s DNA and is essentially a clone of the father. As the mother’s body sees this as a foreign invader it reacts horribly. The…

I just want to give a shout out to Galavant on Sunday night which did a most amazing spoof of “Summer Dreams” with Zombies. Uh huuuuhhhh!

The field I’m in, archaeology, is rife with problems. The profession considers itself “the cowboys of science” and has a huge issue with sexual harassment and discrimination in hiring. Indeed, even the way that archaeological sites are interpreted are predominantly from a male point of view. All stone tools are…

Being on a grand jury is the worst! I was on one for 18 weeks in NJ. It was mostly retired people and horribly racist. Most people try to get out of being on a grand jury because you don’t get paid and have to use vacation time to cover the large amount of time off. My employer at the time was generous with jury duty…

I travel as part of my work and have gotten scabies three times in the last ten years from hotel rooms (two times were in West Virginia). I was in a room in Delaware in December with family and my youngest daughter got three bedbug bites on her neck. She would have gotten more, but she was wearing footie pajamas so…

I’m an archaeologist and next month I’ll be excavating a buried historic house that was burned down in northern mid-atlantic region. Not as exciting as this site. I’ll have frozen soils, lots of broken glass, cow bone and rusty nails, and angry landowners who are losing their home and business for a much needed bridge…

If it had been in lower Delaware, the wedding would have catered by Helen’s Sausage House.

There was a bar on the edge of the Pine Barrens of South Jersey that had a white cat that lived in the bar and a rabbit that roamed free on the floor below.

The N-word is in very large letters and underlined to the right of the star.