Lol, it’s from CPR training!

This was my niece several years ago and she was so bad I really never thought she’d see 21. She’s 22 now and really getting her shit together. Things aren’t perfect, but with every year of maturity and a strong network of family, she’s going to make it. I just want you to have hope and know that the hospital is the…

Yes, he looks different. It could be the missing teeth, weight loss, psychic trauma from the whole experience, etc. I took my cat for a teeth cleaning only to have him come home wobbly and confused from the anesthesia and frankly, he’s never been the same. I wish now I’d just the teeth go because his reaction to…

We adopted and I didn’t get to skin-to-skin with my daughter for ten months. She’s 12 now and a complete sweetie. Whatever you do, it will be fine.

I wonder if people book Poppy Delevingne, like you would a DJ or a florist.

Mauve Levine?

Purpose served.

Then think about my spouse who didn’t finish the Ph.d he’d been working on for seven years simply because he got sick of it. At least you tried!

I’ve been through something like this and it’s awful. I’m so sorry this is happening to you. No one can tell you what to do, but I will plead with you to listen to yourself and what you’re feeling. If something seems wrong, it more than likely is. We ended up in counseling and are still together, but if I had paid…

I was lamenting how lazy my daughter was about her upcoming bat mitzvah and my rabbi told me that both her sons - now in college - call themselves agnostics, yet you still see them on Friday night reading Torah, part of Hillel, etc.

Exactly. I cannot imagine any catastrophe that would make me not Jewish or not want to celebrate Jewish holidays. It seems counterintuitive.

Mazel tov you wonderful man!!!

I don’t know much about Trevor Noah, but I have a cousin who has been a truly global traveler, AFS student, you name it and she seems to have been completely unaffected by it. I think there are those people who are stuck in their own minds - or whose personalities are simply set - who do not change much by their…

This is so nice of you, truly. And gives me the opportunity to tell someone that, in fact, I did seek counseling about ten years ago and the therapist sat and listened to my horrible story over the course of two sessions - a story I had never told from start to finish - and at the end, suggested I contact my rapist to…

Yeah, but it takes six Ultra Balls to catch him.

Stop the planet! I want to get off!!!

I heard the cop talking about this on NPR or some such thing - their defense was that the boy was only 4 and no one would remember his face after a few years. Painfully stupid.

Horrible. My MIL told me when she was 8 months pregnant with my husband and my FIL was out of town on business, a man from their small town stopped by her house and made advances to her, which she of course rebuffed. Apparently, my FIL did the same thing - asked her what she'd done to promote it. Eight months…

Really, really good to see you, shelwood. :-)

Initially read this as "with dignity." ! ! !