Fortunately, I live in a state where there are no waiting periods. I don't know how women overcome all of these extra barriers. I am having a hard enough time trying to find care for my child and get out of work so that I can make it to my appointment. I couldn't imagine compounding an already difficult decision…

Today I went to the hospital due to complaints of severe upper and lower abdominal pain. I am also ten weeks pregnant with an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy. I told them this as soon as I was admitted. What did I get? Insistence on listening for fetal heart tones even though it was unnecessary and an ultrasound…

When this topic comes up people always say how they'd rather have a c-section, as if it's a lesser and easier process. C-sections fucking hurt! The healing time is MUCH longer and it's a major surgery. You're not even allowed to pick up anything heavier than your child and even that felt arduous at times. I developed…

This reminds me of the time my high school's administrators made a big deal of checking the students' lockers for drugs. They brought a few cops and dogs along to search our lockers while we were in class. The only place they found anything was in one of the teacher's cars as they were leaving school premises.

Having a hard time seeing how this is an open relationship.

Outies of the world unite against outiephobic tyranny.

I have a very similar recurring dream. Somehow it is discovered that I never graduated from highschool, therefore, my college degree is null and void. So, I have to return to my old highschool (which had changed dramatically) to complete the one or two classes that I neglected while I was a student. It always ends…

Maybe I've watched too much Law & Order but don't they take the officer's gun and perform ballistics testing on it when someone is shot while in police custody. If the bullet matched the gun the cop is carrying then the case is pretty open and shut, right?

Don't forget: He reached for my waist band; I thought I pulled out my taser; he was brandishing a weapon (wallet, Skittles, cellphone).

That's why I like Donald Trump because he has such an admirable respect for the institution of marriage - just ask his wives Ivana, (who he cheated on with) Marla, (who he cheated on with) Melania.

Backpacks Girl is a deadringer for Miley Cyrus.

If you don't know anything about the commenter you shouldn't take liberties in telling her what HER history is. Your Wikipedia description of Jamaica essentially says that many Jamaicans are of West African descent, but the transatlantic slave trade of Africans ended for most countries in the late 1800s and began…

This is my beef with everything this commenter said. Many blacks have been in the US for several generations - even longer than many whites. We don't speak the language of our ancestors, have no awareness of their cultural mores or even the general location of our ancestral origins. So, we are AMERICAN. We aren't…

I think the Kardashians are punking us. I mean we do have pictures of what they looked liked before yet we are supposed to believe that all of their changes are due to makeup contouring and working out. Sure. Okay.

Around my 7th month my nose expanded from one ear to the other. It was pretty sizable to begin, but the third trimester swelling made it much more pronounced. So, your fear is legitimate. I feared that mine would never go down, but it does. It's all water weight and swelling - and I was swollen from my head to my…

I think the part that makes the video creepy is that unlike the video for "Love Never Felt So Good" this video seems to try to create the impression that Michael actually participated in the video by using footage that was relevant to the whole beach/desert theme that they had going. I like my posthumous videos to…

A few months ago I had to help a skinny thirteen-year old get out of a toddler swing. My boyfriend and I were leaving the park and the girl's friend quietly said, "Excuse me..." Her trapped friend tried to shush her mid-sentence because she was embarrassed. My boyfriend asked if she was stuck and started off toward…

The first time I was left home alone I was five. It was sub-zero weather and my mother went to the grocery store for food because our cupboards were bare. I was a latch-key kid by the time I was six. I never answered or opened the doors, used the "my mommy can't come to the phone..." dialogue whenever someone called,…

No. The newborn days are pretty mind-numbing: a lot of bottles, boobs, schedules, worries and diapers. Fortunately, that stage is the most fleeting. Slowly they start to interact and take in the world and that's when it gets pretty damn cool. My son is two and watching his eyes open to world - watching him be excited…

Hah! I think I'll try saying this to my two year old when he's throwing a tantrum. It is truly amazing the amount of anger, desire and frustration that they can invest into something as trivial as Popsicle. They erupt like a volcano with pure passion and want and then two seconds later they're contentedly playing…