I was raised by a single mom. She was, at all times, my mother. At no point was she ever playing both roles or doing double duty. Whatever she did, whatever any parent does - is their job, the one they signed up for.

None of my family or friends have EVER thought we could “have it all”. That was always a middle/upper class White woman’s dream.

The mayor & city council backed down because this tax didn’t have the support of city residents. Council members are trying to keep their jobs.

Vancouver in Canada did. Some foreign investors park $$$ in real estate here. That helped increase prices a year or so ago, but is not the overriding issue now.

Look, the bio mom is a victim, and she has a right to her feelings- but she needs to share them with family, friends, support group, pastor or therapist - not the press. Her daughter doesn’t need to see things like this and it will just make the gulf wider.

You should realize that many not rich Seattle residents opposed this tax because we have supported plenty of taxes in the past and they have been mismanaged as fuck. Durkan & co. need to put forth an actual plan FIRST and then we’ll talk money.

Look, I am SICK TO DEATH of IGNORANT MUTHERFUCKAS like this! I don’t know if I want unity anymore. Hell, just cut up the country!

Lol, I don’t have a problem with the line in the Samantha/Richard context. I have an issue with MDs extrapolation that this is a blueprint for how relationships should be.

The extrapolation in the article goes too far then. She calls it a “blueprint for most healthy relationships”. It isn’t.

Actually, this would be much simpler if people didn’t throw around the term “love” so frivolously.

This isn’t shocking. Hell, I’m a woman who has been molested, assaulted & raped & #MeToo hasn’t meant shit to me or changed my life in any way. I know very few men interested in discussing it and they are very careful about who they talk to and what they say. My husband has only discussed it with me; it wouldn’t occur…

Bartenders look at age & the pic to make sure the pic looks reasonably like who they see before them. They don’t care about the sex or gender, at least not when it comes to pouring a drink. A police officer looks though, to determine what holding cell to stick someone in- and for lots of places that is determined by…

I obviously read the article as I suggested that X for intersex be added to reflect biological reality. And actually, sex means biological sex- not gender. The picture is present to reflect representation. Male and female are biological, not gender terms. They are absolutely present on some government documentation…

Will people quit mixing shit up? There is no gender designation on a passport. It has a designation for biological sex only. “Female” isn’t my core identify any more than “male” is my husband’s. Passports should be updated to reflect X for intersex because it is a biological reality, not for gender inclusiveness. Or,…

First off, I don’t believe in perfection. I’m also analytical to a fault. The last time I was single, I made myself approach dating as needs vs wants. My “needs” were my deal breakers, whatever was my bottom line, must haves. Like, no addiction/abuse history - wasn’t willing to go there again. It didn’t matter if I…

She deserves monuments and the mantle of “genius”.

I just had an open myomectomy in October. Now I have a C section scar, but no baby. They removed 16 fibroids and a polyp. Honestly, my periods really aren’t much better, but at least there is a chance for a baby now.

Yeah, but no White dude is claiming to be my brother or blathering on that Black women are queens.

We won’t have these conversations because Black men will not confront other Black men on their behavior. Black women can tell their stories all damn day, but when men encourage each other when pushing up on some woman who CLEARLY doesn’t want it...

Art isn’t magic. It is work. It comes from within, true - my intellect and drive direct me just like a scientist invested in research. My last book is “me” in the same way that a an academic paper is the author.