I want to like this essay, but I don't. In fact, I hate it.

I agree completely. There's also a reason that AA/NA meetings have a speaker who shares their personal experience of using, the damage it did, and their journey to sobriety. We need these stories. Even though we're not PSH, we know exactly what makes someone with years clean and a great life use again. We know how…

Yep. It's always the next thing on your mind. No matter how long you're sober it's just always there, waiting for you to run out of other ideas.

I'm not at all attempting to justify his remarks here as he picked some incredibly inappropriate words and may in fact be a total dick, but I can kind of get what he means in terms of quality of movement. I was a dancer, and an athletic one rather than a willowy one. Watching dance I tend to imagine what it would feel…

I had a little hellion take her gum out of her mouth and PUT IT ON MY BAG that was under her seat. It didn't fall out of her mouth (although with her jumping up and down on the seat in flight I'm surprised it didn't) - she took it out of her mouth, reached under the seat, and put her gum on my bag. Her mom gave about…

He's pretty much the Platonic Form of white male handsomeness. Those eyes! That beautiful, lustrous hair! Whew.

We went to Disney World for our honeymoon and have gone back (and to Disney Land) since. I never got to go as a kid; my husband fondly remembered going to Disney World when he visited his grandparents in LA as a kid. It's the most fun we've ever had. We've gone on plenty of "adult" trips in the mean time, but we still…

I think they're using the, "as though the person wore a 36 band or something" cup sizes - I get that impression a lot when they talk about petite celebrities with very large breasts and claim that they're a D. Cup sizes are treated as a universal thing and not something that varies by band. It's bizarre.

I was thinking of something more topical... like Nancy Kerrigan!

I had a short haircut and a low voice as a kid. I wore my brother's hand-me-downs. My parents were great about emphasizing that being clever and kind and brave were important qualities and that I should like what I liked, regardless of it was a "boy" thing.
I was called "an It" on many occasions and saying that I…

Yes! Amy is very talented and has fabulous technique. But she is a dancer while Jasmine is also a performer - her presence is unbelievable. She and Aaron (another great performer) danced like adults instead of like kids and I'm not surprised that it didn't win them the show.

Amy wasn't my favorite of the women this season, but she is technically flawless and she's kind of a blank, weirdly emotive slate for the choreographers. Jasmine has crazy stage presence but she maintains a Jasmineiness that 14 year-old girls must not have cared for. Amy is non-threatening and a very talented dancer -…

America definitely chose tiny and cute and innocent over tall and sexy and mature. Sweet crap Jasmine and Aaron were hot together.
That said, I wasn't surprised by the results and I'm at peace with them. I was sad that Paul didn't make it to the finale, though - it was hilarious watching people say what actor he…

I was never heavy growing up but I was, at one point, extremely thin. I'd always been athletic (about 2 hours a day of activity) and eaten okay but I got sick at one point and lost some extra. I thought it was awesome so I pretty much stopped eating. It's still the only way I know to lose weight. When I no longer had…

Ah yes, bed-making. My husband is the same way! I always feel more like I have my life together when the bed is made. Like I'm an adult person who isn't just barely keeping it together but who has a lovely home. My husband is HOPELESS. He just can't figure it out and never did it growing up. He's incredibly thoughtful…

Same here. After years of pointe my feet are knobby and I'm all, "stilettos? Bring it on!"

Exactly! YA lit is a great opportunity to model sexual agency. A heroine who makes responsible decisions about her sexuality - whether she engages in or doesn't engage in sexual activity - is a great asset and an excellent way to covertly teach teens. We don't need more voices telling teens that good, admirable people…

My main issue is that Divergent - like Hunger Games and tons of other YA - is bizarrely puritanical. It read to me like a nice conservative girl trying to write about what Bad Kids might do but struggling. Are we really supposed to believe that the dangerous, reckless faction is quite chaste? Having main characters…

I really liked the Maze Runner. Then I read the other books and I thought I liked those. When I turned the last page of the last one I turned to my husband and said, "that was one of the worst series I've ever read." Have you read them all? Did you like them? I might be alone in my frustration.