Girl Gone Smart

My backyard is still lush and green, but along the edges of my yard sit a couple yellow leaves as big as pot holders and as beautiful as...

I don't know how many posts and comments I've seen where the unvaccinated are screaming into the air about how their constitutional...

*Trigger & Language Warning* A few years ago I left a toxic job very abruptly. To say I had a bad day was an understatement. I had...

I'm not shocked or surprised at what happened yesterday in our country's capitol. If you are, you haven't been paying attention. This has...

I think that many people forget, me included sometimes, the Press Corps was created specifically to hold government accountable. It's why...

Fair warning: Possible spoilers - read at your own risk. When I was a child, I remember hearing a rumor about my Great Aunt Daisy and her...

*Language warning* The fact I have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) isn't a secret to anyone who knows me. I'm incredibly open about it because...

I had started writing a post about the presidential debate last week, but realized I had absolutely nothing enlightening, funny, or new...

Guest post by: Abbe Hanley Trigger warning: sexual abuse, child abuse, child sexual abuse, and racism. Note from GGS: I've been seeing a...

My timeline is overrun with "pizza gate" conspiracy theories accusing everyone from Tom Hanks to Bill Gates of child molestation and...

The poll numbers are clear - Donald Trump is losing in a few of the normally guaranteed red states as of the writing of this piece. Yes,...

There are only 97 days left until the 2020 election. Unfortunately, the president has put out a lot of misinformation so I want to ensure...

Self-awareness is a son-of-a-bitch but a necessary one. I finished the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo about a week ago and it...

It started with one tweet from 17 year old Lincoln Debenham on Tuesday, April 14. "Hi @BarackObama! Like most high school/college...

Look, I get that writing this may be doing exactly what I'm suggesting you stop doing, but it needs to be said. I don't care how "woke"...

So very often I see adults complaining about the "liberal" education their children are getting in the New York State public school...

I wasn't going to write about this because it feels too personal, but a friend reached out after I had checked in to St. Peter's Hospital...

There are a hundred ways to define "upstate" so you can choose to define it however you would like. I realized today how right you are...

I was too. Well, not upset but very confused and of course like many of you, couldn't understand why liquor stores were deemed essential...

At 36, I've now had a job and been employed for nearly 20 years (briefly unemployed in 2008 after the computer store I worked at during...