She also survived fourteen pregnancies, including nine miscarriages and a stillbirth.

OT-ish, but I super hate that I was old enough to know about Lilith Festival but not old enough to go.

You know, I feel that way about all Olympics. I understand that the athletes have spent every minute of their lives preparing for them, but they have become such an expensive, difficult spectacle to put on that no one wants to do it anymore. Only the countries that are financial and political nightmares are even…

Daddy is a state of mind. Evidence? They guy who is older than me who says “oh yea daddy” and “do it daddy” and similar whenever we “get together.”

20 plus years into a relationship with a man 15 years my senior. He's now 70 and I'm 55. We haven't had any real issues with the age gap either. We are more alike than different, we respect and love each other ... What else is there?

Harris Wofford has lived one of the more incredible lives in recent American history. If you’re spending one-on-one time with him talking about internet memes and what just happened on Game of Thrones, you’re kind of doing it wrong.

I don’t measure myself or my friends by their sexuality.

My husband died suddenly in his sleep. This was before twitter. Most people sent cards and letters and it was weeks before I could read them all, but the sentiment was deeply appreciated no matter how it was delivered. I liked the letters because talking on the phone or in person was mentally and emotionally…

Plenty of options for different people - my Husband’s father died of cancer when he was 19 and his father was 49. To give themselves time and to give family time to arrange travel they had a celebration of life service a month after he died. I’d never heard of it done that way, but everyone that was mourning had time…

It does seem tacky. Personally, I think this new trend of journalists posting people’s tweets in obituaries and other articles about someone’s death is way worse than the original tweet.

There’s nothing easy about dealing with condolence phone calls when you’re absolutely shattered over the death of a loved one, and it can all get to be just too much. People meaning well can just unnecessarily add to the burden of someone who’s grieving a sudden and tragic death.

Grief is inherently self-centered. There’s no wrong way to do it, as long as it’s not destructive.

Phone calls are kind of on they way out...srsly, who even has a landline anymore? Most people use their cell to text....and it seems like a burden on the bereaved to make them run to answer the phone every few minutes. Posting it on twitter means Patton Oswalt can read them when he has the time and/or energy.

People probably said the same thing when phone calls began to replace in person visits to the bereaved. Though of course some of it is completely self-serving...

Patton is a huge Twitter user. It doesn’t seem like self promotion, just a window into his brain. When he thinks of something funny he posts, and he retweets stuff from his friends. I think it’s as natural as sending him a text. I’m sure his real-life friends are gathering with him right now. So maybe lighten up.

When my mom died I was really comforted by all the kind words on Facebook, from people who I talked to every day on down to those I’m just “FB friends” with. And I still have those words now, I can look at them and continue to take comfort in them (and sometimes I still do when I’m feeling blue). To each their own.

IDK, as someone who has experienced far more death in my life than anyone should (literally half of my quite large family is dead), when you’re grieving it can be a hassle to field call after call after call of well-intentioned people wanting to express their sorrow.

How is this self serving? What are they getting out of it? and you think he’d rather be bombarded with phone calls than some tweets?

I don’t completely disagree with you BUT Calling him right now might not be the best thing. It is still fresh and he might need time with his daughter and by himself to cope, or at least try. So maybe it is like, putting a message out there and when he is ready, it will be waiting for him with out intruding on…

I want to see this but I’m always worried about animals in movies. If they get hurt or killed, I can’t help crying. I don’t care that it’s fake and the animal is really totally fine. I’m glad that all of the kitties were adopted.