About seven years ago I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I was lucky in that it was fairly isolated so they just chopped that sucker out, but I was devastated by the treatments. Just.. so so sick. An old friend of mine (we'd shared a really shitty apt in NYC in my early 20s and during this time she and I had had a…

Oh lord. That's fucking sad. Babies are such a handful and the nerve of him to not tell you anything! Urgh! I'm so sorry.

I've told this story before here. But.

My (now ex) fiancé and I had a somewhat long-distance relationship. I worked an a city 3 hours from the small town we lived in, so I would stay with friends or my parents while I worked my 4 days on, and go home on my days off. Things were never "good" when I was at home, but anyone can tolerate each other for 4-5…

I had to take my mother to the emergency room while I was visiting her one weekend. I ended up staying for several days because she was super sick and my dad is basically incapable of caring for a houseplant, let alone a human. When I got back to my apartment I shared with my ex, the place was totally trashed and he…

We had been dating for 9 months. I told him I couldn't go to his birthday party, when I was actually planning a big surprise for him. So I showed up with my awesome gift, to find him there with his other girlfriend :(

I always thought I'd have two. After an ectopic pregnancy, though, and being told I'd have a greater risk of it happening again (and possibly dying if it went undiscovered), we decided not to have another. It's painful to not really have a choice and sometimes I mourn that lost possibility, but writing this has…

The other day I witnessed a mother grabbing her (13 year old?) son by the front of his shirt and saying "don't you EVER do that again" for being snotty to the cashier at a coffee shop.

I absolutely believe this. After a divorce, my son was an only child in both my ex's home and mine as well as the only grandchild . He was also pretty brilliant and was the only kindergartner who could read. Even the teachers were constantly telling him how awesome he was. His head steadily got bigger and bigger until…

This is a story of how one of the worst days of my life ended up reaffirming my faith in strangers and in the human race in general.

They were both standing, staring off into the distance right in our direction, but made no move to answer the drive-thru window

There's one that shows, from the front, a seemingly happy couple getting married. Then the back view shows her back bruised and him wrenching her arm up her back.

Are you sure? (Sorry if the pic comes up huge, it's hard to tell on a phone.)

What the absolute fuck. Always relevant:

Congratulations on the one year anniversary and Pinkham's Law. You've been a delight, so far. :)

Why, why did you have to tell me that?

I LOVE that film. And I was so shit scared the entire film that she wouldn't go through with the abortion, that she would decide to have the fucking kid and it would show how lovely that is and that she's grown up or whatever. It was SUCH a relief that she not only went through with it but also didn't have some…

Agreed. As a new mother of a 3 month old, I want to punch her in her fucking face, really, really hard.

It's ok, In 2 years, she'll have a Mommy blog about her snowflake child who can't process the complex sugars in refined carbohydrates and is allergic to the colour red.