I like chocolate... and I like peanut butter... but why on God’s green earth would you combine them? The end result is terrible!

Maaaan, I’m such a mushball. I can’t imagine the event, but I definitely understand horrible pain and being forced to make decisions you don’t like to make. I’m crying with you. If that makes any difference, know that someone is crying WITH you and wishes they could be there with you.

Oh man Lilly, I’m right there with you! And I HATE it when people tell me to “be strong”

Ex Coast Guard officer here - I did for about six years and then took my GI Bill and ran. Have you thought about joining the military? It doesn’t have to be the Army or Navy, but something like the Coast Guard when you’re stationed near the beach in some awesome areas, you can travel the world, and just have an…

I’ve kinda been here. My soon-to-be ex husband (ugh) and I adopted a half lab, half husky. He will randomly attack other dogs, has bit one person, and will be perfect running off the leash with me... until he’s not and is gone for a few hours. Loki is just a difficult dog to have, and we did a great job as a team…

I don’t watch this show so I have no idea what I’m talking about here... but I think you’re on to something. While I wasn’t a teen mom, I had friends that were, and the difference between having a supportive family and a little bit of money so the teen mom could go to school, have resources, get a break, etc. was…

Ahh I read that and can’t stop laughing. God, I’ve missed Bawbwa. She’s the mother I never wished I had.

I’m with you. I think we all need to take a pause before we label this as a non-apology. We’re having a great discussion about race, casting white people into roles labeled for different races, and the why casting can be difficult... but I’d love that discussion about “passing” and how someone can be fiercely proud…

While I’m white, I have a ton of “mixed” friends and some of them look very much like their heritage and some you have to look harder, but it’s still obvious. A good friend of mine is 1/2 Native Alaskan, but she has red hair and green eyes. She has the same face-shape and nose of a Native person, but that’s where the…

I live in Alaska, and the black bears are essentially overgrown dogs around here. But watching them eat trash in a neighborhood is like watching a death row man eat his last meal. You just KNOW there’s not going to be a happy ending for the poor bear...

And then there’s the transition when your lady friends move to a different life phase and you don’t, and so you stop having much in common and that friendship dies and they make new friends in their life phase. Like, some of my friends have had babies, and I see on Facebook all the fun things they are doing with their…

Ahhh, I feel like I was that friend! My life gets so darn busy juggling everything that I want to make new friends, but I have a hard time carving out the time to devote to friend-dating. And it’s not because I have a ton of friends, but that a job, life, working out, etc. pulls SO much out of me that it’s hard to do…

My period must be coming... I just teared up reading Chris Brown’s words. I never thought I’d go to bat for the guy, but maybe, juuuuuust maybe, he’s starting to get it. I mean, I get extremely depressed and I stare at the window and say the same thing... and the media doesn’t know I exist or publish internationally…

Maybe I don’t want to know... but WHY 2-3 and then 12-13? Why aren’t 4-11 year old children attractive?

I feel this way every time someone makes a joke about hoping someone gets raped in prison...

Holy smokes. I know this doesn’t change the pain of losing a partner, but someday you’re going to be really glad he’s out of the picture. How awful.

Right??? I can be charitable about former ex’s and old friends because they are out of my life and I don’t have an emotional dog in the fight about what happens to them. Confession time: I’m not a Kardashian fan, I’ve never seen their show, and I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t know who they were without Gawker/Jezebel, but…

Hey, I go to those on Wednesday mornings in a small cafe! The ladies are all 30-40 years older than me and retired, and I’m the only one in business clothes because I have to run to work. And those little old ladies are going through some rough, rough stuff and are incredible communities to each other - it’s 30% Bible…

Ahhh, I have the same thing. I work in a male dominated industry with men much, much older than me, and they mean it as a term of endearment and not to be obnoxious. And my (female, older) boss does it too. I try to smile politely because they aren’t meaning to be offensive at all. Could that be part of it?

I’m with you here... regardless of the fact the family is famous or not, this is still one hell of a curve ball to throw in. And all those random meltdowns that people have going through divorce/death of a relationship has to be seen as super rah-rah because the whole world is watching is BRUTAL! I’m sure there’s some…