Okay, we’re clearly on the same page. I must have read your comment weird.

In my mind, the most important thing employers can do is to change the environment of their workplaces. It is no longer acceptable to report harassment. It isn’t your “right”. Instead, it is intensely encouraged. It is made extremely simple. It’s is incredibly vital, and it is normalized. It is part of the job for…

“Can’t we live in that space where it’s okay for perpetrators to be a little bit uncomfortable with what the consequences will be?”

Oprah asks: what happens to bad men?

I would like to see restorative justice pick up momentum. It’s hard to summarize, because the characteristics of it change from place to place, but the main principle is that the people most affected by the crime work towards a resolution, with an examination of the factors that led to the criminal behavior, so that…

“Speaking of this moment, as a culture we’ve gone from not listening, hearing or believing women, and how were we going to skip over the whole part where women get to be heard, and go straight to the redemption of the perpetrators?” Ferrera responds. “Can’t we live in that space where it’s okay for perpetrators to be…

Well, at least someone is trying to hold him accountable for something. We in the US certainly aren’t doing that.

I’m mystified by Americans who describe America as being in the ‘top spot,’ ‘the greatest country in the world,’ and ‘the country that EVERYONE wants to live in.’ It’s not. It certainly hasn’t been any of those things in my lifetime. It seems like most Americans are completely clueless about countries that aren’t the…

Exactly. And I run a childcare program so other mothers can work and be happy.

The damage from this won’t just be the superficial damage to relations but does have the distinct possibility of seeing the US fall from its top spot and instead harkening the “Chinese Century” of geopolitics.

Girl preach!!! My mom friends spend their weekends shuttling their kids to activities and birthday parties. I limit my kids to one birthday party a month and one activity. We do family things on the weekends and the kids hang out and help me around the house. Birthday parties and soccer will not run my life.

Thanks for the book recommendations! They sound right up my alley. And a very good point about the relationship dynamic piece with a partner. I thought cohabitating and then planning a wedding together was good practice in communication and partnership, but I think raising kids together will be the biggest test. So…

My husband entered hospice this week. As helpful as they are, it is also overwhelming. So many people, so many moving parts. So many medicines with the idea of helping, but which seemingly just serve to take away his person and leave his body.

I did *not* expect to have an update related to the SNS theme, but here we are: Some Jezzies may remember my freak out last weekend after I deleted a very important database at work. I was *convinced* someone would point out one very specific thing I absolutely should have known better than to do, and I would be…

Conquering Your Fear Thread

I get a little farther behind every year, frankly. And I have a decent paying job, but my money goes less far, because I’m middle class and nothing is really designed to help me get further. Thanks, Paul Ryan! I’m glad I donated to @Ironstache !

I think it’s bogus, just as these reports have always been. These “officials” have a hundred ways to make us think that we are all doing well. Personally I have had an online business for years (for a very good product), but things have gotten so slow that I’m having to re-think my market approach. It seems like the…

Lady Bird update!

Woo hoo SNS is early! Before too much delicious wine is consumed by me! I went back to work for the first time since my boob job, and on that first morning, as I posted earlier this week, I (bizarrely) met Donald Trump Junior at my work and he took a selfie with me! Also, everything is healing amazing from the…

When politicians talk about the economy, they talk about the stock market and corporate profits.