Vote by mail sends the ballots weeks in advance.  So you are effectively voting early if you choose to complete your ballot within 24 hours of receiving it.  Me?  I like to wait until 24 hours until it’s time to turn in, and drive 3 minutes to my local ballot drop box just because.  

It doesn’t take a lot of time to report that page, that post, or any other posts or images on that page.  Take a couple minutes to do that now and let’s shut down one channel of spew, even if only for today.

This, a thousand times. I’m 3rd generation Mexican American. I am not going to be deported, and I can’t imagine the absolute pain of growing up in this level of fear. When I’ve encountered people who smugly say they aren’t going to vote, or look at the GOP or Dem choice and then declare, “It’s such a hard choice,” I’m…

All you people in states waiting in line to vote: if you manage to flip anything, please do yourselves a favor and get vote by mail implemented.  I’m in Oregon, and any of us in the US states where vote by mail is how we vote can testify:  this is a far superior system.

Wow...I could fall asleep to this.  It’s shockingly soothing.

Yes, nursing babies, definitely--and God forbid you have a pattern on your shirt that somehow mimics the look of a breast (circle with smaller circle in it).

I live in a community where extended breastfeeding is very common—have never run into an extended breastfed kid who would do this.

Weaned Butter Jr. at or just before 3—ish. Don’t remember the exact age or date. What I do remember is that I was ready, she probably could have kept going. No judgement on parents who nurse longer or shorter time periods.

Regardless:  my body responds differently to it.  And I would never add more than a couple teaspoons of a sweetener in a recipe like that.  When I see something like that in a recipe, I dramatically reduce it--also notice it’s apple juice OR coconut sugar, not and.  ;)  Written that way for a reason.

I would never have added that much sugar, 1 cup is a lot in my world. When I see recommendations like that, I already know my taste buds are tuned for experiencing much lower levels of the flavor of sweet as sufficient—roasted bell peppers, browned onions, steamed collards that have been through their first frost—all…

Coconut sugar is not the same—it’s got half the glycemic index as cane sugar in any form. For me personally I don’t get blood sugar spikes with it, and if I’m interested in an alternatively sweetened treat to make at home, it allows me to sate that without setting off a crazed round of spikes and cravings that I get…

Wanted to add there are side benefits to this microburst activity—I work in tech, sedentary job from a home office. I developed Type 2 diabetes. At the time I was working more than full time, and finishing a college degree and parent of an active teen who had some specialized emotional needs (under the care of a…

Walking back from Type 2 diabetes (first normal blood sugar reading in over a decade happened about 3 weeks ago!)—so you can imagine I’m already a bit hair trigger in my reactions to adding white or brown sugar to recipes. :)

I’m on a dating site where recently I came across the profile of a gentleman in a wheel chair—he lost both legs to H1N1. I had no idea that could actually happen.

Respectfully, that seems like an overwhelming amount of sugar--did you really mean an entire cup?

Wish I had seen this! Lived and worked in São Paulo a long time ago!

I don’t think I’ve had this exact situation as a parent, but I know that I would have not known what to do, and sadly, I might have done all the jerk things. :( I’m embarrassed to admit that, but want to share that from my place of total ignorance, I find this article is amazing and enlightening. I really appreciate…

News flash: not all alcoholics understand what a black out is or may have grown up with completely different terminology to describe alcoholic drinking behaviors like blacking out. I’m a recovering alcoholic 3 years younger than KavaNope. Back in the day, we called it passing out if we literally passed out (although…

You’ve got to be an amazing douche bag for your former drinking buddies to expose you as the liar you are, so many years later...

Survivor here, and I give you permission not to feel bad.  I don’t wish sexual violence on anyone, but when you deliberately work against the interest of other survivors, you do not deserve thoughts, prayers, pity, etc.  She made her choice, now she can live with it, as the GOP is so fond of saying.