I am glad to hear you are still in the world, too. I am going good, thanks to a combo of diet, meditation and anti-anxiety as needed.

OK, one more thing, and then I will let this go (at least on this site; I reserve the right to harp on at my blog):

Congrats on the impending marriage! May you have more happy days then sad, and may we be getting more guys with your attitude ASAP.

I could try to forgive this exploitation of these brilliant women if the editors tried in some, however half-hearted, way to make the pictorial part of a larger piece about creativity and mental illness or how women with mental illness are looked upon in our society. They could have even talked about the circumstances…

That was one of my first thoughts. While these incredible women can no longer be emotionally hurt and hopefully have found the peace that eluded them in life, Chang and Plath still have children living. Perhaps some of the other authors do; I don't know off the top of my head.

Nemo, I can tell you have never been severely overweight. I am also willing to guess that you are one of those people blessed with a rapid metabolism that makes losing weight and keeping it off easy, plus a personality that is able to ignore the behavior hardwired into all animals by evolution (eat as much as…

Um, yeah. As a size 16/18 woman, I always thought that was kind of the point.

I think Ros' (lack of) clothing in death is less about the need for T&A in the episode and more symbolic in this case. Nudity symbolizes sex, yes, and Ros was an (ex) prostitute, but it also symbolizes innocence, fragility, defenselessness, honesty and exposure—the truth "laid bare" and the "naked truth".

Sam's role in the books is very different from his role in the show so far. Essentially, he is a foil (complete opposite) for Jon Snow and in some ways, for Theon Greyjoy. Without spoiling it for anyone, I can say that he does play roles in important events that unfold later in the story. By "later" I mean "in future…

First off, if this is all the reporter can come back from the game and write about, she needs to be fired. There are plenty of out-of-work writers who would be happy to fill that website with information actually relevant to the sport of basketball. Second, as a woman with a bit of the "pudge" herself, I say if the…

The She-Bears of Mormont rock, indeed! Right now, I am curious as to where Martin is going to take the character of Sansa. It seems to me that he is pointing the Stark sisters toward showing 2 of the ways a woman can gain power in a male dominated society: either by totally ignoring its rules and going her own way…

The non-Stratford authorship argument is not that "poors can't write". Could someone born and raised in the Elizabethan merchant class, a version of the modern middle class (which William Shakespeare was) have the talent/genius to write high-caliber and popular plays? Absolutely. Did the majority of the artists of the…

Yeah, because we can't have a news channel doing anything like journalism, can we? Foolishness like this is why I left journalism.

I knew it! (cue Lady Gaga) "I'm on the right track baby, I was BORN THIS WAY!"

Rose Wilder Lane was one of the founders of the libertarian movement. In fact, she came up with the term "libertarian". She encouraged her parents to follow her example, trust the free market, and put everything they had in the stock market. They lost everything in the 1929 crash. Laura Wilder decided to write the…

What is with the jailbait on the cover of "Anne of Green Gables"? Is there no dignity left in the world?

Tell me about it. My Swedish genes granted me some natural G cups. Thank the Boobie Fairy for Lane Bryant!

Hon, you don't want to know. I watched season 3 online, have read a synopsis of the holiday special. My advice: get plenty of tissues.

I would actually watch this.

Nah. Still won't help me. My personna is 11th century Norse.