You’ll excuse me if I go WTF?!

In my experience with INS, I have learned never to trust an e-mail sent by someone using AOL. You may laugh, but invariably any time I open an email sent by somebody at aol.com it’s an anti. But still, much like the optimist searching for the pony in the pile of horseshit, I open them [...]

Never say never.

While things are well in my personal universe, others I know both in Real Life and Net Life aren’t so fortunate. Someone close to me in Real Life is going through a divorce after twenty-three years of marriage. An online acquaintance’s husband left her and their two small children to take up with a nineteen-year-old. [...]

The mainstream dabbles again

As I’ve said to many people many different times, INS is not about me. I created the site, I write the code for it, but in the end it’s about the stories, women sharing experience and wisdom and hopefully helping someone out there who doesn’t know what to expect or believe. Pay no attention to [...]

Know your role

My only contact with “women’s” magazines comes when I am standing in the check-out line at the supermarket. I can normally resist the siren call of the brightly colored covers with headlines like “Lose Five Pounds This Weekend!” above a picture of a elaborately decorated cake, or the burning need to know that Jessica Simpson [...]

Babies having babies

Every so often I’ll get an e-mail from that most easily offended creature, the Outraged Teen Mother. They follow a very predictable pattern–first they flame me for “killing babies,” then go into a recitation about how their kid (usually very trendily named) is so-and-so months old and is like OMG the best thing EVAR and [...]