A Natural Scientist

Me to Dr. S, a few months ago: "Dear, sometime we should talk about what your parents are going to do when they can't live in that ...

Do you ever meet people (in person, that is) and you... want to like them, but something is just not right  for a friendship or, indeed, an...

I'm not talking about rationalists, who can be real asses, but a basic level of reason-based interaction with the world. Epsom salts a...

Have a sick baby who nurses six hours a day for two weeks. Be allergic to practically everything.  Leave your dinner on the stove.  ...

-My children have murdered the laptop and will get no more screen time NEVER EVER because we don't have a television. -School cancell...

Someone I knew in Cold City is 'crowd funding' her parent's funeral. To the tune of $15,000. Look, I know funerals are stupid ...

Dear Self In Twenty Years, Don't do this.  Don't do any of this. Love, Me. HOW TO ALIENATE AND ANNOY PEOPLE IN TEN EASY STEPS...

I feel there might be a less confusing way to phrase this sentence about a transgender teen:  "Ayden grew up a tomboy and in sixth grad...

Creator, grant me the courage to help my children succeed at school, the wisdom to answer other parents with kindness, and the patience to n...

The Ugly Stereotypical Tourist! We've all met them, and perhaps we've been them: the person from the flatlands who shrieks in the Lo...

Hypocrites!  Republicans who take food stamps. (Nobody should go hungry, but neither should they walk out clutching their EBT cards and decl...

#4: People who decide to do something (home school!  concealed carry!) and then decide that not only is it the best thing for them but then...

Bad Weddings Bingo! Bride cries Inappropriate toasts Drunk uncle Three people who aren't on speaking terms You wish something woul...

#2: things I haven't said to Sister 2 but want to: "You were an annoying little shit for pretty much all the years of your first ...

#1: People who say they're going to go 'research' something, by which they mean use Google or possibly read abstracts BUT withou...

An unfortunate encounter with a new-faculty-spouse-in-town reminded me that   I have a reflexive revulsion for persons too stupid or irrespo...

I invited you to our baby playgroup out of kindness because I remember how hard and lonely it is to suddenly go from working full time to a ...

I'm sorry.  I'm especially sorry if you had non-baby children while I had a baby.  Like all people with their first child, I was cra...

So I've never really gotten along with my egocentric, toddler tantruming, whiny, entitled in-laws.  Neither does my dear spouse.  And th...

My middle sister is trying to start a company aimed at getting school-age girls to love science.  Leaving aside the advisability of this as ...