Hey all, I didn’t have the time or energy to thank all of you who posted to me individually last week, but just know that it was REALLY REALLY appreciated, and helped get me through a pretty dark space last weekend. Sincere gratitude to all of you, genuinely.

Now let’s discuss one or all of the following things:

1. The…

Just got back from my European excursion and it was amazing but I did half of it with my sister and she drove me nuts.

This is my very first post on Jezebel even though I've been reading this website for maybe about two years now. I've never commented before because I've never thought I had anything interesting or worthwhile to add. But after reading the comments sections for so long, I feel like I know so many of you and thought that…

Are you drinking it iced? If so, you could cold brew. You just mix the water and coffee grounds in a container, leave overnight in the fridge and then drain into a different container (through a colander and I sometimes use a paper towel.) I do 3 cups coffee and 14 cups water and it lasts over a week.

Okay, so, over the past couple of months we’ve had Scary Cancer Badtimes in my family. First my mother told me she’s been receiving cancer treatment, then my sister had a cancer scare, then I was told my mum was having genetic screening to see if my sister and I are at risk.

a) My mum just finished her last round of…

Yay! This is the first time in a long time that I have been able to make it to SNS!

People still have parties for unveiling artwork they bought?

First, as to the question at hand: I did my Master’s thesis, at least in part, on Michael Jackson. He was a fascinating character. I’m happy to share some tidbits if people want to hear them.

After being dead for 18 years, my father in law still has a stalker.

This story is one that happened to a friend’s family. My friend’s father is an incredibly well-spoken, intelligent guy, so when his father died, he was chosen to give the eulogy.

Just this summer, my uncle died. His cremated remains were brought from his state of residence to SC for interment. The graveside service, attended only by family, was held in the middle of the day during that godawful heat wave we had. It was 108 degrees. Three generations of my family stood around in our Sunday…

The guitarist from my old band died quite unexpectedly at a youngish age after a long battle with what we could only assume was a bad combo of Tourette’s syndrome and Aspergers and an accidental toxic combo of the questionable drugs he took to keep all that in check. Rather than a typical funeral for a strange and…

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

Many years ago one of my very good friends died suddenly. The circumstances were pretty bad but he had this super cool hippie mom. His mom was the mom who’s house we always wanted to hang out at as teenager. So when he died she decided to bring him home and some friends made him a pine box and she decorated it with…

she was engaged to an australian for years, it ought to be good.

Now that I think about it. I should have been more naked in my 20s.

The medical term for miscarriage is spontaneous abortion. A D&C is the procedure used for both elective abortion and for incomplete spontaneous abortion - there’s not some other way of doing it for women who wanted their babies than there is for women who don’t.

I have to disagree, respectfully. For example, when motives are things like extreme politicial or religious beliefs, I think its important to expose exactly what that type of mentality reaps. Out of the horror of the shooting in Charleston, a much-needed conversation happened about “Southern pride” and ”heritage.”…