Thank you for this beautiful, honest essay. I'm so sorry that you are going through this. I believe that by sharing your journey you are helping many others. Thanks .

Those are the best! Way superior peanut butter to chocolate ratio. Thank god we empty our own trash at my office! No one sees the evidence if my Reese's binges...

The letter made me so sad. Just despairing in humanity. But these comments are great. The generosity and love and support is wonderful. I too love handing out candy. I'll give it out to little kids, teens, babies with their parents, kids with no costume...I don't know their story. But it is one small thing I can do to…

this is really interesting. Basically there is a long tradition if generosity in Halloween that the stupid letter writer is missing the boat on.

yes! I love how she actually cites peer reviewed studies in her reviews to help you separate out the marketing claims. I use her products and my skin has never looked better.

I've had good luck with exfoliant a containing salicylic acid.

Thanks for posting this. We will be ok but West Africa is effed.

To me it is so much more upsetting that the WHO is expecting up to 10,000 new infections per week in West Africa come December and saying that the mortality rate is 70%. My heart breaks for the poor people dealing with this. Already the poverty rate is staggering and now this?

I have heard many people say they hate working for women who are supposedly catty and moody. I've had dudes say this to my face, and I'm like " you know I'm a woman and a boss, right???" Weird to me because I've had good bosses and bad bosses of each gender. honestly the most catty, moody person I ever worked for was…

squats and lunges are good for strengthening legs, but you will need to lose fat to really tone anywhere.

My thoughts exactly. Once Ebola starts impacting major companies bottom line maybe it will get the prevention and treatment resources it needs.

One of my biggest pregnancy regrets was not having that third slice of pizza at my friends house the night before I went into labor. I could have used those extra calories for the terrible labor that followed but I was so worried about the weight gain lectures.

I know many couples like that too and it is so crazy to me!

Yes! My 3 year old must clean up his dishes and spills and get his own water. I rearranged the kitchen do he can reach cups and towels and healthy snacks. He has his own broom that he uses with pride. Yesterday he helped make a cake from scratch. Kids—boys and girls—are eager to learn we need to teach them and set…

I don't agree. I planned for an un medicated birth for my whole pregnancy, labored for over a day with no pain relief and had an emergency section. I have on multiple times had women who succeeded in un medicated births actually critique me and tell me what I did wrong.

thanks for this great article! I had a horrible nightmare birth experience that started with water breaking at 3 AM on a Thursday and ended with an emergency c section at 11:30 AM on a Saturday. I have struggled with the shame that I wasn't able to "do it" myself which is not helped by the fact that I live in a very…

Much better thanks!

love this comment. what's the point of awareness? So dumb. Fund peoples treatment, or research or something useful.

This whole pink October crap pisses me off so much. It feels like a cheap marketing ploy. Plus I think it somehow diminishes the brutal reality of living with or dying from cancer into a cute tidy package that can be swept away. Cancer is not cute. Dying from cancer is brutal painful scary. But I feel like that…

I so agree! I have a son and I fully plan on teaching him about consent and how to hold keep an eye on his friends' behavior, to call them out on any bad behavior!