This was very well said - thank you!

I completely agree that there is value here - that it's too easy for most people (including many in the recovery community) to ignore the suffering of socioeconomically disadvantaged and generally non-famous addicts, that reform is needed - but when the thrust of the argument is that people need to stop sharing their…

That's certainly not how I read it, but I think you may be right. This essay read to me as, "stop making this about you, this is your chance to talk about policy," but I may be quite wrong about that.

A couple cups in the toilet finally got the hard water deposits off of it - I'd been scrubbing at them since we moved in almost a year ago.

Thank you for this - I said something very similar to this but probably not as well. We can't move on to talking about reform until we get people to accept that there's a societal problem besides just, "our society has lazy addicts in it." Until enough people can grasp what we're talking about we can't take that next…

That's tremendously, wonderfully compassionate. They're very lucky to have you in their lives.

Thank you. Your last statement reminds me a lot of conversations about being related to someone with any other kind of mental illness. It's a rough balance - yes, the addicts in your life feel like shit about it already, but you're still entitled to feel anger and disappointment towards them. The fact that they…

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…

I'm one of the fairly small number of women who travel like this for work (I fly from the Midwest to Seattle every week) and my experience is a little different.
I don't travel light. The comfort and confidence I get from having a varied wardrobe and my regular personal care products is worth the inconvenience of…

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 -…