Go Team Green!
What does it say about a society that normalizes finding out what is between a person’s legs before knowing anything else about them?
Author: Jennifer Worrel
Jennifer Worrel is a transplant from the Great Plains raising two sons and a husband in Metro Atlanta. Extremely likable until you get to know her, she remains a great invite to a dinner party. She prefers peeing in the woods to peeing on private planes and was once told by her husband that she is “way funnier online.” Writes about whatever interests her, she knows a little about a lot. For fun, she enjoys cooking from scratch and watching old Milton Friedman videos on YouTube. Jennifer's thoughts are her own and do not represent the views or position of any firm or affiliate she is lucky enough to associate with.
Abortion and Confronting Our Tolerance for A Visible Hand
The disparate intersection between generally correlated political positions on abortion in the US and support for free market principles.
Boy Scouts and Punch Bowls
I had never met any Boy Scouts, but surely Boy Scouts would rise to the occasion and help me figure out how to get this water back to camp
A Catastrophe of Ignorance: Why Free Speech Cannot Embrace Vandalism
A true belief in freedom of speech must include condemnation of vandalism and violence and a commitment to counter bad speech with better speech.
A CEO Named Mister
But is unconscious bias actually disrespectful? Is it, in the words of the female — Not Mr.— CEO, indicative of gender bias?
A May Day Mission
Every time I read an article that describes May Day as a quaint practice of days gone by, I get a thrill from keeping it alive.
Easter With Ray Wylie Hubbard and Other Effective Child-rearing Advice
We made a deal: if he’d get up to go to outdoor Sunrise Easter Service, we could leave straight for vacation from church
Woman, Controversial Woman
This current purgatory is unsustainable for all women–trans, cis or otherwise–where both the act of defining woman, and the act of not defining woman are each controversial.
Oh, Sapelo!
Sapelo Island gentrification is a conundrum: resources enabling the island to thrive would also spoil what is so special and unique about it.
How Will They Know We’re Christians? By the Traffic Cops?
In the contemporary vernacular of WWJD: I just don’t think He’d stop traffic to relieve Christians from the inconvenience of patience.
A Mom’s Sabbatical and Finding Ellicott’s Rock
Andrew Ellicott’s expedition in Georgia took a year. I left my house that morning at 7am and was home by 5pm.
A Boymom’s Thoughts on Girls’ Athletics
The tragedy of this situation is not that women’s athletic options are being eroded by girls who insist on playing with the boys.
Welcome to the Suburbs, Mama!
We had a lot of fun–a lot of fun–but now we’re just a couple who lives in the suburbs and grills out on the back porch.
At the Intersection of Loyalty, Rights, and Legitimate Reasons
I was not a victim. Nor am I a sex worker. I was a female business professional, traveling alone, who needed to pee.
Phones, Photos, Phallus and…4-H?
To consider the evolution of phone concerns across my lifetime. Coincidentally, 4-H actually benefitted from Mr. Bezos’s digital dalliances
Vacation Homes and Tupperware
I remember cheese-and-cracker open houses where there would be “no pressure to buy” but Tupperware or Amway would be available for purchase
Of Phil Donahue and Joe Rogan: Leaning into the Shrug and Carrying On
It is entirely possible to highlight the shortcomings the cancel culture approach without becoming a fan of The Joe Rogan Experience
Of School Lunch, Farm Bills, Free Riders, and Book Clubs
Given the evolution of the school lunch program, we are kidding ourselves if we tolerate subsidies for farmers but deny them to hungry children
Dead Squirrels and Plumbing Problems
Adults overestimating the magnitude of run-of-the-mill inconveniences while being both unwilling and incapable of solving the problem.
Let’s Go Freedom: Communing Between “Let’s Go Brandon” and “Let’s Go, Darwin”
A friend posted “Let’s Go Brandon” as her social media status. Never one to shy away from a lively conversation, I asked her about it.
