I applied for a job today at a school where the tuition is $25,000 a year. That means that by a time a child graduates from sixth grade at the school, if the child started in pre-k, the parents will have paid $200,000 for their child's education. And...

I've been unemployed for almost a month now, and I'm starting to get the hang of it. Today I woke up, then laid in be for awhile, enjoying the vague feeling of dizziness that comes from being almost-but-not-quite-all-the-way awake. I got up after...

October 7, 2009 I knew I had to quit when I literally pulled my hair out. Recently some friends and I have discussed, sometimes after a few glasses of red wine, the misuse of the word “literally”, often by those younger, and therefore dumber than...

We had macaroni and cheese tonight. Which is fine, and something that Kurt and I have done before. We usually toss in some tuna for a little extra protein, just in case that scary orange cheese powder is really as devoid of nutritional value as it...