For my 22nd birthday, my mother the jewelry nut got me a 1/4 carat olive-green diamond, and let me pick out the band I wanted it set in. I could’ve put it in something elaborate with lots of flanking stones or whatever, but I wound up putting it in a white-gold solitaire setting.

Haters gonna hate, I love my ring.

But, like all things Ryan Murphy, nothing gold can stay.

opals tempered with unicorn tears - putting that on my ring upgrade list for when we get rich

The real Juliet became a writes crime novels and the real Pauline trains horses. They haven’t spoken since the murder.

Mr. Ferret and I have talked about engagement rings and I asked for a simple sapphire solitaire or halo ring with a white gold band. Fairly straightforward, but I know that anyone who sees it will probably think I’m trying to copy Kate Middleton. And I promise I’m not. If I didn’t like sapphires so much I would have…

One of life’s great joys is being able to point others toward works that have had a profound effect on us. If even just one or two people reading this thread made the effort to seek out this novel, that would be a wonderful thing.

I find this one very difficult. Having recently read the incredible All The Light We Cannot See – which I recommend highly for insight into something very much like this kind of situation – it’s quite easy to imagine a narrative in which an individual gets swept into an untenable situation by circumstances they cannot…

What do you mean “cheek bones”? That’s fillers and makeup. The nose is makeup. Kids these days contour like drag queens.

I went out with my son recently and he selected his first deodorant. He chose this one-

I am a resourceful Capricorn. We will outlive even the cockroaches. COME AT ME.

My younger brother died of skin cancer at 26. Fuck tanning beds. Someone needs to Gibbs Smack these kids. Or send them to me. I’ll show them the pictures of my brothers golball sized tumor and of his shaved and stitched up head from where he had brain surgery to remove two of the three tumors that grew there. Skin…

Natasha Gould, an 11-year-old who was invited to speak at the event after blogging about her experience being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor

I’m with you.

Parks was so amazing in so many ways and it makes me sad that it doesn't get more recognition

I didn't see the series, but the book it was based off of was excellent itself.

“galentine’s”. I LOVE IT.

I’m a rape crisis counselor in the west and I have had more than my fair share of trucking cases. Women raped by the men who are supposed to be training them, women drugged and raped by fellow truckers at truck stops, women raped while sleeping in the cabs... It happens all the time. I’m so glad to see someone is…

A girl I knew in high school got drunk at the age of 18. She drove, got arrested, and a friend came and bailed her out. She proceeded to go home, drink some more, and drive again. She got into an accident that killed a woman and permanently disabled her husband. Her sentence? Two years in prison, which she served half…