You think there is a point where a child “ages out” of inspiring hysterical grief in a parent?

This was nearly 20 years ago. I know she was hospitalized for a while and I know she did end up, through social services, finding a better housing situation and going to school. But beyond that I’m not sure. There is a lot of human flotsam and jetsam from the Amish community that is overlooked and under served.…

Sadly it’s not even close for me. I once did a postpartum home visit to find that the infant had died several days before but the mother was still bathing and dressing the little body and frantic because “She just won’t eat.” I suspect this will turn out to be something similar. Grief can do some powerfully tragic…

I’m now curious who the actress is. But you both were in the third grade, and I’m sure that child actor was spoiled beyond belief and she thought it translated into all other aspects of her life. I’m glad she got a real reality check even if only in this instance. Did she still come out of it as a nice person, or have…

Kim and Kyle Richards haven’t seen the back end of 30 in years.

Mine will have to be a Blind Item lest I doxx myself. The celebrity in question is a actress in her 30s who has done movies but is better known for her television work. She’s also much nicer than this story makes her sound. That said...

You have a heart like a lion to walk away from that encounter with your awesome mindset. What seventh grade behavior on his part.

I had absolutely no idea who he is, so I googled him and man, it’s just right there on his face, innit? Dude looks smug as fuck. I bet he has a tiny wee wee. I *HOPE* he has a tiny wee wee.

i am sorry he was such a twatwaffle to you. garbage person indeed.

I went to see a screening of the second Boondock Saints film (for all its deep and obvious flaws, I have an abiding fondness for the original, entirely because of the gorgeous men and all the homoeroticism) that included a panel discussion with Troy Duffy and a few of the actors afterward. The move was so awful I…

I’m super sad about this. I’m from MA, and I know that my state is overwhelmingly against the death penalty, and even overwhelmingly against the death penalty for Tsarnaev, specifically. We should not be in the business of executing people. I don’t believe that counts as justice.

I’m at this point where I don’t care what happens to this guy, but I feel like a life penalty, locked up and isolated until he dies naturally, thinking about all the things he didn’t get to do, is a much bigger and appropriate punishment.

GAHHHH one more. Sorry, but I love it.

My MUM.

When I was in 5th grade I changed schools. My new school was way on the other side of town and outside of the lily white suburb where my previous school had been located.

My mom is a spitfire. She’s a tiny, fierce, mean, Irish lady. She had 6 kids in 6 1/2 years. I have a ton of great stories about her, like the time she bought a huge crystal chandelier at an estate sale several hours from our home. Lacking anything to wrap it in for the ride home, she stripped down to bra and panties,…

My mom works in an inner city middle school as a teachers assistant. Basically it keeps her busy and she loves the kids she works with, which are the behavior kids. She has basically become a second mother to a lot of them and has some truly heartbreaking stories. One of the best was a kid whose mother had just died…

Exactly; he’s (LePage) what we don’t need. I was being sarcastic when I said he was ‘awesome’ ;)

And exactly; nobody goes to bat for Maine and Mainers harder than Stephen King. He still lives in the state and pays his taxes here, even if LePage blatantly lied and said otherwise. King has paid for public libraries and…

Wow, it’d be really super-cool if ultra-conservative religious folk could stop being xenophobic nightmares.

I’m genuinely amazed that he avoided the words “well spoken” in describing her. I’m also amazed that he didn’t name two white players as goals for her to be kept by.