Real mindfulness would be wonderfully beneficial to our whole world. Unfortunately I can not help but be a little jaded about the motivation behind this CEO/celebrity appropriation of mindfulness. It's my gut feeling that like so much of our pop culture, for them it will be used up and discarded the moment another new…

I feel thoroughly shamed by my 32 year-old self, right now, so she done got us all.

Dealing with hemangiopercytoma here. My husband is still breathing, but is mostly a vegetable after emergency brain resection in 2011. I wish it were quick and merciful like Amanda's. I am crying. Fucking Cancer.

I'm so sorry for the piece of shit cancer that killed your husband. One of my best friends/neighbors is about to step into your shoes any time now. Her husband's 36 and has lasted 11 days in hospice non per ora but diluted cough medicine to breathe easier. Their kids are 3 and 5; he was diagnosed 31 months ago and…

I'm so sorry.

The missus and I just started watching Breaking Bad (yeah, we're late at parties, too). It's been a little difficult for her seeing Walt go through the stages of treatment because she had bone cancer as a teenager (osteosarcoma) and seeing it brings back no so fond memories for her. It's weird for me as well because I…

It was certainly surreal, we got lulled into a false sense of security because the doctors gave him a two year timeline. Cancer is bullshit, it hits you and then moves on to someone else before you can blink. I'm sorry you lost your husband, I know the pain never goes away (despite what people tell you).

I'm sorry. The quickest cancer is always hard. My dad passed away a month and a half after they found his pancreatic cancer ( 1 week after his first chemo), he literally told my brother and I the weekend before he passed "I could die at any time by getting hit by a car. Listen guys you don't need to worry. I'm not…

One of my dear friends is dying from brain cancer right now. She has maybe a few days left.

Christ. Fucking brain cancer.
I was just saying this on the grief story below. Hubs died 8 years ago from anaplastic astrocytoma and glioma stage IV. It's a bullshit disease. The funniest, sharpest, quickest, smartest, feistiest guy I ever knew and I watched him lose everything in 17 months. It's awful, I wouldn't wish…

Seconded.

i totally agree with you. the $$ needs to be there to support the re-education and "they" have to stop stacking the deck in favor of the corn industry. our food system in this country is so, so complicit in the obesity epidemic. and the medical community is also a close second. it's startling. I pray that reform…

I'm delighted to see someone intelligently remark on the carbs and obesity connection. I'm not going to go rogue and suggest carb=less, but I WILL say that low quality carbs lead to one thing - hunger and the desire for higher quantities of carbs.

I mentioned the SNAP challenge earlier (where you have to eat like you are receiving SNAP benefits for a week). I did not do it, but I read the narratives! Seriously, though, one of the things that struck me from the people who did the SNAP challenge was how bored and dissatisfied they were in just one week. And…

Yes, poor people's problem is just that they have too many iPads to hand out to their children.

I'd always get that one person who said, "yeah, well, I eat hot dogs and Kraft Dinner all of the time. What's wrong with them eating it?"

Former poor single mom here. More often than not the dinners I could afford for my children when we received food stamps were pasta, beans, rice. Basically carbs, carbs, carbs. They're cheap! Presumably because grains are subsidized in this country. But whatever the reason the fact remains that a ton of carbs and a…

I really challenge you to buy a weeks worth of healthy food for a family of four on these people's budgets. It is proven that in these areas non-organic vegetables, meat, and the like are more expensive than fatty and unhealthy counterparts.

Can #hashtags leave too? #Ihatetryingtoreadthiscrap

I've been married for 5 years; we have a 3 year old and a 1 1/2 year old. When I was pregnant with my first, we moved to another state for his job (stock money). He moved in June. I moved after Labor Day when I was 36 weeks pregnant. I had been sleeping on an air mattress with a hole in it for two weeks. When we…