Agh I know comment sections across the board for this situation have been awful. Everyone just keeps complaining that she’s a brat and has a bad attitude I’m like since when did being a 12 year old brat mean the appropriate punishment should be to have her face slammed to ground by a grown man. There’s a reason…

Yeah. There was an article about this on my fb page and the comments there were super disturbing. *I* have a 12 year old daughter. There’s not any form of “verbal altercation” I can imagine her and her friends getting into that would begin to justify this. Even the bitchiest of her classmates don’t deserve this. But…

The fact that some people react that way to a brutal physical assault on a child (who hadn’t even committed a crime) is nauseating. Either some people have disturbingly selective empathy, or they’re so committed to this “Cops always good” narrative that they can’t even budge from it no matter how egregious the…

This was some real shit. Thanks for letting us into your world Melissa. Stay true to your brothers life/death, to the lives of those he left behind and most importantly to yourself. You’ll be alright. I believe it.

Though I have not lost my loved ones to violence, I lost my father and my sister to heart attacks, at young ages. This articles speaks to me on so many levels. I have incredibly real dreams about both of them all the time. I wake up crying every month or some from them. I remember about a year after my father died (in…

Very powerful

Truly gut-wrenching and uplifting article. Thanks so much for sharing.

I have a little experience with the therapy myself, so perhaps my anecdotes will suffice. my therapist performed the therapy with a visual stimulation. Basically we’d begin on a topic, typically a negative feeling i was having, and then she’d wave a wand in front of my face. Which sounds INCREDIBLY stupid when i type…

We don’t need a new word. We need to rediscover an older way of dealing with loss. It’s harder to deal with death in the modern day because we’re more sanitized from it and it is treated as an ugly taboo. Because of that, there are fewer people who truly understand when one of us is slapped in the face with the full…

I think there are probably a variety of methods to it, because what my therapist does is a bit different from what Major Lazer Power Blazer described, at least at this point. It’s almost like an eye exam, when your ophthalmologist moves the little light and has you follow it with your eyes? My therapist just moves her…

My brother was murdered in New York in 2009. I think about him every day. Thank you for what you wrote.

There is a movement in the 1990s, among the Spielberg project’s peak recording for the Holocaust archive where people were figuring this out. Witness is the word people chose to embrace, as survivor marks you for life in a certain way, you lived while others did not, etc. For a deeper read, brief, but powerful, check…

I hope that you know that you deserve to be happy. You matter. Your pain is very real and that your brother would want you to live a full live that are an active participant in. The ghost of someone close to us who died in a terrible way far too young can be crippling. If the situation was reversed would you want him…

This is hauntingly beautiful. xxoo

Last week one of the girls from Teen Mom made headlines when she had her hair styled into dreadlocks. As soon as there was an outcry that this was cultural appropriation the masses of the internet came out to say there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation/ she was just admiring black culture/ PC culture has…

Aww! I hope she feels better soon. For what it’s worth, I threw my knee out a couple years ago by sitting cross-legged in my desk chair. Sitting is apparently pretty dangerous.

Thanks! I hope you are having an excellent night

I still hope you get it!

Hi everybody! I bought a cast iron skillet today! Preseasoned, whatever that means, and very heavy! I’m excited to make things with it! Does anyone know what I can make in it?

Emily is super confused by playing youtube videos of kittens. She wants them.

It is my birthday weekend and I traveled to see my bestie in the bay. We were going to visit Ikea and have In-N-Out and generally were living life and then we spun out on the freeway and almost died and it was so fucking scary and also…