He had to listen to his own music.

Fuck you for making me watch Billy Joel sing Uptown Girl.

You are better than this and are worth more! Looking back, I know my long ago self wouldn’t have believed that. I actually said “I’m my best person when I’m around him”! I wish I could tap into the words that would bolster you enough to just walk away. Now.

I went to my “best friend’s” weddign (on the opposite coast.) I made sure that all of his family, high school and college buddies, and ESPECIALLY his parents thought I was the most amazing woman the world. I felt that crazy sense of victory too especially when his parents sent flowers for my birthday and his East…

UGH! I’ve been there. So much. It’s like you want to know, but don’t want to know at the same time. Take a break. Let him miss you. Let him wonder where you are - what your plans are. Seriously - let this go on for awhile. I know it sounds like a mind-game, but the longer you go without him, you will actually be…

I just started working as a teen librarian in a really poverty stricken area. Kids come to my programs because there is food. Im trying to figure out what my goals are and what I want to get done and how I can be of the biggest help.

I make a point of telling my students at the beginning of each semester that they all have As. Their job becomes to sustain that A through their work. Students seem to like that positive framing. They like hearing that they’re succeeding before they’ve even started. I think your $50 to start the week works on the same…

I’m not a teacher so I’m no help there, but I have been through almost 20 years of dating hell, and I can tell you that you are doing the right thing by distancing yourself from your current romantic situation! I dated that “type” so many times, it hurts to think about it. I just waited around for them to figure out…

I feel your pain, even though my teaching experience is with college age students. Group work can be a hard sell, but I wouldn’t be too hasty about separating the ones who aren’t overtly participating. Kids pull back from group work for a number of reasons that often have nothing to do with disinterest. Some, if you…

I start my 19th year of teaching in a few weeks. I have worked in inner city schools and currently in a high SES school. Little tricks that middle schoolers respond to involve recognition and choices. I do “student of the week” every Friday which is a shout out to a kid who is trying or has made a change or whatever.…

First of all: thank you for taking the burden of being a teacher. It’s an incredibly difficult row to hoe, and I won’t lie and say that it will always turn out all right, but the potential rewards (while nebulous) are fantastic. Those kids will remember you for the rest of their lives, and you have the chance to help…

I’ve been a middle school teacher for 15 years. I started out in a poor school in a rural area, so I can relate, at least somewhat, to your experience on the other end of the spectrum.

I’ve been thinking of trying to do something about my acne scarring. I’m in my late 20’s and my skin has finally calmed down in the explosive breakout department, but, damage is done and my cheeks are pretty rough (ha). I don’t know where to begin. Peels? Lasers? does anyone have some insight/experience they would be…

I worked for Starbucks on an off for over nine years—nothing in my experience would suggest this barista is in any jeopardy whatsoever.

I would rather get another abortion than watch that video, tbh

This is unkind. I agree that she knows her strengths, but there many educated people who do not excel at public speaking, and it would be difficult for anyone to be as good at giving an interview as she is at performing, so her statements may simply suffer by comparison.

Look what I bought my cat

“Bris Penner”