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“What a perfect time to practice your Spanish,” you joked quietly in the pharmacy. I told you I didn’t know how to ask for what we needed. You asked me to try. All I remembered was that the Spanish word for pregnant sounds a lot like the English word for embarrassed and I was hoping in just a few minutes to know I would only be one of those two.

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The Mother and The Whore, living archetypes sharing a line at the local drug store before parting ways forever.

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You can start a new journey wherever you want, doing whatever you want. You just need the courage to take the first step. You’ll find that there’s so much of the world you have yet to see and so much more to you left to discover.

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I rush to the local drugstore and head straight to the pharmacist. She says, “Happy Thanksgiving!” And I smile. Awkwardly.

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What is wrong with men?

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Birth Control coverage is no longer a requirement for companies claiming Obamacare violates the free expression of their religious beliefs.

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2. Take the blame for farting.

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The Plan-B emergency contraceptive, aka the morning-after pill, doesn’t work for women over 176 pounds, and barely works for women over 165.

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52. There are many ways to #YOLO without calling it #YOLO.

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She’s older, so she probably wants to have a kid doesn’t she! Women do this kind of shit all the time, don’t they?