I don’t know if I can properly explain what I’m thinking...

I started working with teens seven years ago. When I started I gave the “don’t use the word gay as a synonym for stupid, bag, ugly, whatever,” at least 5 times a week. I haven’t had to say that at all for at least 2 years. Last summer I overheard a group of seventh grade boys very casually listing all the people they…

I teach high school and I can vouch for one thing: this new batch of kids are fucking awesome about a lot of things. They can be crappy towards each other sometimes, oblivious and callous at other times, but all in all, I would have had a MUCH better high school experience with this generation of kids than the ones I…

your casual use of “cromulent” embiggens my spirit.

Planned on copious amounts of sexytime, got norovirus right after our plane landed. That pretty much sums it up.

If I’m arranging a fight with someone at all, the other person finds out about it about a minute after the fight started. None of this warning crap.

Claratin doesn’t work for me either. Try Cloratripolon. That one gets rid of hives for me.

I have cat allergies so bad that Claratin does nothing. Apparently there is a shot you can get for feline allergies, but since I don’t live with a cat I see no need to take it. That being said, if I had a boyfriend who had a cat, I’d consider it... and while I like cats (and all other animal friends), the idea of…

Does anyone ever get the sense that a lot more people claim to be allergic to cats than are actually allergic? Because simply admitting you “don’t like cats” is met with “What?? Whyyyy?” and no one has a good answer (bc cats are the best), so “allergic” it is. They are the gluten of the animal kingdom.

I keep reading stories about Food Network Stars being scumbags and it’s really putting a damper on my love for cooking shows. Paula Deens a racist, Giada may have screwed John Mayer (the worst offense), Geoffrey Zakarian screws his employees over, and now Bobby Flay cheated on his wife with a 20 year old “assistant.”…

I’m making no judgments about this little girl, because I don’t know her and she’s just a little girl. But, one of the things I remember observing as a kid is that adults would try to tell you to make friends with all the kids, even the unpopular ones, and they’d try to convince you that those kids were really nice…

I agree white savior narratives alienate novice teachers of color and I also think they set White teachers up for failure. When you tell them the communities they work in are devoid of any values or assets of their own and it’s their job to go in and “fix” them, it sets them up to enter the field with a bunch of…

tend to attract white/Anglo, middle class folks who “want to make a difference”, rather than folks who want, and need, to make good money.

This is why anti-bullying legislation matters. This is why anti-bullying professional development for teachers should be required. I had a friend who was complaining about taking the Dignity for All Students workshop (mandatory in NY State for teacher’s certification) because it’s an all day affair, but goddammit,…

Shit. It gets better, but getting through school is so so hard. The eating lunch alone part is just devastating. Is there anything a school can do to stop the damage that comes from having to spend lunches and recesses alone? The ostracism can be even worse than the overt bullying.

The sad thing is that this isn’t the second transgender person to commit suicide. It’s simply the second one society has chosen to acknowledge. May she rest in peace

So in high school I had a crush on my straight best friend, who had a crush on a young woman from out of town. In order to get her to agree to attending prom with him—driving five hours to where we were—B had to secure a date for her best friend, as that was the only way B’s crush would allow her to go. So I took the…

Buddy. Who died and made you soap police? But seriously, folks. I will counter this anecdotal diatribe with a story of my own. I use Dove in the shower and I'm generally clean/not greasy. It appears to function as soap. What did Dove do to you, man?

I think the real lesson Gwyneth can learn from this thread is how much people scrutinize your choices when you’re a poor, and how everyone thinks they can do better. Limes, Gwynnie?!? Wasteful welfare queen!

“I’d rather smoke crack than eat cheese from a tin.”