Thank you and I send my heartfelt condolences to you as well. The more I learn, the more I realize that, without having a front row seat, it's impossible to know how addiction's ripple effects splay.

I NEEDED this after the weekend I/we just had. Every part of this is beautiful and full of what makes me smile in life - namely: kitteh, creativity and music. Thank you :-)

My sister's boyfriend of three years committed suicide in the days before Christmas this past year, as a final 'middle finger' to his addiction. I had no idea what addiction really, really was until I got to know him. He was a real person, not a caricature, nor was he out of central casting. Every time I hear about…

This is just another 80's throwback. I remember girls wearing super-short running shorts with the piping and those corduroy Ocean Pacific shorts with the underboob back then. Be gone, 80's, be gone!

Agreed. She is a hot, open-fire, bare-assed, totally biased, paid-for-the-wrong-reasons hellofa mess. Seetcha!

I know, right? He was teared-up. He feels and understands the specialness of their friendship. I will never give up on the human spirit...

Projects such as this one help with what we in the disabilities field call 'community inclusion.' Anything done by the larger population can be done by those in the disability community. Let us always see each other with new eyes!

But isn't that the whole point? She came is as an advocate, not a member of the 'normal legal process.' I think advocates should be separate, third parties who are in no position to financially benefit from the settlement they are facilitating.

I'm going to use the article to vent: I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes around the holidays last year. I'm struggling and hate myself that I'm not doing better. It helps to read other's perspectives and tips, so THANK YOU to the author and commenters. But right now, I'm bummed :-(

I blame her for going along with this. This is the type of crap you learn to accept from selfish boyfriends waaaay too early.

I agree. A good friend of mine went vegan and acts like its no big deal. Thing is she doesn't like food. Never has. She's not into it and doesn't care. If I was one of 'those,' I'd be sinewy and wiry by now and not full and soft. My full-softness is okay for now. I've cut back, but I agree, fat, salt and sugar…

Thank you. I just can't with this.

*slow clap*standing ovation* Wooooooow...

Thank you for the Biden reference! Das ma' boy! So proud of my home State...now for even one more great reason!

For the love of God, I truly pray that this man does not become an 'auto-tuned internet celebrity.' He did a wonderful thing and I hope we can celebrate his 'normal-ness' and not bastardize it. Let's not cheapen the wonderful things we all can do, even if we're just having a little lunch. Good for him and so, so…

Don't know if this has been expressed, but I'm going to feel some kind of way if he ends up having an affair with one of the Downton women, a.k.a. Mandingo/Forbidden Chocolate Fantasy. We can do more than that with the story line, can't we? One can hope. *sigh*

Thank you for eloquently reiterating exactly why TP is a problem for me as a Black Woman: the unfair personification of Women of Color against the shallow vilification of Men of Color. His body of work reinforces stereotypes of Black Women that I find to be flat, outdated and non-diverse. It is my personal opinion…

THANK YOU. Many subtle and profound nuances of this piece generate from the swells of YOUNG love, not how different they are from one another.

Unlike every March Madness prior, this year, I truly go into the voting this year with a true equal love for each contender: The 80s, when I was growing up, and The 90s, when I came into my own as a young woman. Before? Pie, Cats, Sex. No question in my mind. This year? I'm flummoxed just thinking about what the…

It is definitely a very special, certain kind of squee...Thanks.