Does anyone have that gif of the tiny puppy leaning into the food bowl until his hind legs pop up into the air? Because that’s basically what happened with this kid’s press-handstand. When all your body weight is above your rib cage, it’s not hard to do!

Her coaches probably say that each time a kid falls so they’ll have something to do other than start crying.

It’s probably not the first time she’s been asked that question. She’s had plenty of practice.

Ooh, I would have been very angry that a kid was allowed into that class alongside adults who were trying to not feel self-conscious. Kids stare. And judge. And ask awkward questions loudly. Grrr.

Ooh, if your name begins with a C and you used to come to lessons with your grandmother, let me know.... I had a darling little gymnast for a few years who could keep up with her classmates in everything except cartwheels. I’ve always wondered what happened to her after I left the gym.

Right? It’s like they took the language of their press release from a pharmaceutical lab.

Just come to my house and gather my dog’s fur off the furniture and floors. Warm, sooo soft and fluffy, platinum blond underfluffies that she sheds twice a year.

Actually, you sound like a superhero to me. You obviously have willpower and strength of character. And compassion.

I know this is late, but I have to agree that you should try to keep your mother out of it for now. She’s probably uninformed about mental illness in general, and she’s too close to your situation to see it objectively anyhow. If she’s a reader, you can give her lots and lots of books and websites to read about mental…

Is it the Percy Jackson series?

I got that same fortune cookie message and I pinned it up on my living room wall! It’s hysterically funny to me, because I have major depression and inattentive ADD and hypersomnia and chronic-fatigue symptoms and neurological symptoms and am long-term unemployed and almost entirely sedentary, just a little more…

I played music at a church last Easter, and when I came home, I took off my fancy clothes and hung them over the bed post, not sure whether they were dirty enough to put in the laundry pile. They’re still there.

At least stretch a little for a few days before your ski trip. Hamstrings and quads, achilles tendons/ankles, that sort of thing. It’s not cardio, but it will help stave off soreness after your first day skiing.

Political aspirations?

(Just in case someone doesn’t get it, “gingers” are known to be resistant to anesthesia.)

They do love to accessorize.

You and that GS are wearing the exact same ruff.

Seriously. So much for the “ugly, bitter feminists” trope.

Hmm, Fluffy has spaniel ears. I’m surprised it didn’t pick up on that.

I think that one was you.