.... I knew she had passed, but I had no idea how! I just read more about the story and it is *awful*. As a diver, a fan of the Pogues, and, well, a human, it enrages me.

I watched this movie and Monsters, Inc the night my mom died, in between getting updates on what was going on. To this day, I can’t watch Monsters, Inc. But I will watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding at pretty much any opportunity. That is how delightful (and unchallenging) this movie is!

I not normally one to brag about hookups, but that one was brag-worthy, humble or not!

I am not a Twi-hard by any means, but having hooked up with a guy who looks disturbingly like Robert Pattinson, I have to say: Would. Watch. 

A 10-minute mile (especially over more than one mile) is LIGHTYEARS better than the single mile my butt could run as a teen!

I could run precisely 1 mile in 12 minutes in high school - any more and I would have just sat down and cried, so my average mile time over 5k would be basically an infinity symbol!

When I was about 15, so maybe 1996(?), I was in Florence, Italy at the height of summer. I was a chubby, out of shape teen, and had just climbed a truly epic set of stairs to the top of some famous building. I was sweating as only a chubby American with a 12-minute mile time in gym can do, and gasping for air. The…

And I thought the overarching plot of “Not Tonight” seemed a bit far-fetched.  I always underestimate how horrible people in power can be ...

This is not meant to be shade on Aretha, since it seems like things will default to how I hope she would have wanted it, so she didn’t see a need for formalize it, but please please please people: have a will and make sure it is in safe hands!

You don’t need to drive to deliver food in Brooklyn. In fact, it would be a terrible idea to drive food in Brooklyn, since it would probably arrive 3 hours late.

I feel like there has been more awareness this year for daughters without mothers. It’s been 15 years for me, but Mother’s Day is still never fun.

I am so very sorry. The first one of all the holidays is always the hardest. I hope you have the support that you need and deserve!

Blind items are claiming so, but who knows!

They pre-screened the movie for parents when I was in 5th grade - my mom came home and told me about it, so that I wouldn’t end up laughing my ass off about it in class (I had had my period for 1.5 years by that point - the video was a formality for me)

I genuinely thought this was going to be an article about how WAY too many people are posting online about wanting to have sex with the new Pennywise...

That movie has such a great foreplay scene (one of the massages) and such an AWFUL sex scene

He was not long after! That was such an odd scene though!

Also, you do realize that at the time, my mom didn’t know that I wasn’t asking to look at pictures of Brad Pitt from a movie where he was naked, right? Without the 24/7 news cycle, it hadn’t fully hit the news that this had happened in a way that invaded his privacy. The link just said “Brad Pitt naked.” A bit…

I’m sure my mom regretted it when she had time to think about it. But thanks for calling my dead mom a creep!

Brad Pitt was the first man I saw naked because of those pictures. My friend was over and we saw something on the Early Internet about naked pictures of Brad Pitt. Good kid that I am, I went upstairs and asked my mom if we could open the pictures. And awesome Mom that she was, she said yes. (I do wish this story…