I am single. In fact, I’ve been single my entire professional career. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered that being discriminated against for being single in the professional world has a name, and some academic backing: singlism.
Some will say it’s a myth, that it’s just another symptom of a generation of workers that feels entitled to everything. I know better, because I’ve experienced it first-hand. Continue reading
About three years ago, I was at a smallish cocktail party that was being hosted by a friend of a friend. During the course of the small talk over bad hors devours and even worse, a warm Sprite, the conversation turned to professions. Next thing you know I am being drug across the back yard to ‘advise’ the host on what to do with his outdoor living space. I said, sure. Why not? Just give me a few minutes to get my bearings and come back and we’ll talk. He went back to the group inside and that’s when I stripped completely nude. Continue reading
Hope you enjoyed last week’s OT theme. This week – circle begets the square. Continue reading
I love salad for breakfast. Up until a few years ago I thought this made me a little odd. I had been mocked enough by roommates and friends that I learned to keep my fondness for morning salads to myself. I can’t tell you how many times in various situations, I’d had this conversation with people: Continue reading
Hello. Good morning. Continue reading
Mara Wilson, former child performer and star of films like Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, is probably an anomaly among her colleagues; despite her failure to fade into obscurity, she has survived being a child performer without becoming an object of public ridicule. Going by her piece for Cracked, Wilson’s not only an example of how to thrive after wrangling with the frequently grown-up expectations thrust on child stars; she’s one of the best advocates that peers struggling for footing as adults, recycled in the tabloids time and again, could hope for. Continue reading
We had some exceptional comments this week. Here are Glinda’s favorites. Continue reading
May all your endings be happy. Continue reading
Molly West, daughter of Zimmerman defense attorney, Don West, posted this picture of the two eating ice cream cones, presumably in “celebration” of West’s cross examination of prosecution star witness Rachel Jeantel. Jeantel is the young woman who last spoke to murdered teen, Trayvon Martin and who took the stand yesterday in hours-long testimony. Continue reading
Let the liquid flow. Continue reading
