To me, what upsets me about most of the reactions are how conveniently and quickly people are forgetting that Muslims are also victims of Islamic terrorism, just to propagate their xenophobic propaganda.

I had an uncomfortable conversation with a friend a week ago about this very thing, where she expressed surprise and indignation at my decision to become an immigration lawyer to help refugees. She asked me outright if I wanted to help terrorists. I was so angry at her question that I didn’t answer. Then this…

Even on the Gawker mainpage? Phew, that’s probably a lot to handle, especially how today’s shaping up. I just wanted to say something because I’m in Beirut right now, and there is just no one properly reporting on the mayhem and horror here.

I’m just waiting for a few key people ony Facebook to start spouting racist things. I’ve decided that each time that happens I am going to do a shot and then donate in their name to a charity that is helping refugees from the middle east and such. I am very tired of that. This is such a terrible tragedy that is going…

i had an abortion the day before, and was at work at this little coffee shop. We sold day-old pastries 2 for 1, and this one particular customer was sorta infamous for coming in pretty much daily & asking to buy just one for ½ price whenever the owner wasn’t around (which isn’t the deal- it was 2for1 to move old…

I was in trouble for being outspoken at work about certain policies I felt were not in line with our mission statement and got called to my boss’s office. The office featured a gigantic window that looked out into the lobby, so all my coworkers knew pretty clearly where I was within minutes.

Also I just heard hello by Adele for the first time on the drive over to my fiancés and I cried

1986. Ft. Dix, NJ. About 7 rungs up on one of these during basic training.

Sorry. I choke back tears every time the students do the school creed. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

Also a good one I forgot: I got the worst flu of my life my junior year of college. I was in bed for days and my face would not stop leaking and my brains were mashed potatoes. But it was the middle of spring semester and I had to do a Spanish oral exam in the Spanish Conversation and Composition class I was barely…

I met a lovely guy fresh out of my first marriage I kid you not the very same day I bought my tickets to move from Texas to Washington state. My friends took me out for drinks to celebrate and whomp there he was, and struck up a riveting conversation with me. We became inseparable that night for months...

When I was high school, my mom picked me up to get my haircut. I knew there was something wrong when I saw my mother’s face. She told me our cousin died in a car accident after hitting a patch of black ice. The car flipped over and she was threw out of the car due to a defect that ejected the whole seat. It landed on…

In my early 20s I worked a newspaper job where I was supervised by a super mean, abusive editor who would just pick somebody on the staff that she didn’t like and gun for them super hard, constantly shitting on their work, calling them out for little mistakes, calling them in for meetings and asking them if they…

This was a couple years ago - I was at work when I found out from the vet that my cat’s liver was shutting down and I’d have to put him down. I think I became inconsolable halfway through the call and burst out into gross sobbing crying....at work...very loud...open work space. Double whammy of grief and embarrassment.

Mine’s not really all that funny or great, but I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. So here goes:

My thirteenth birthday. New school. I had invited a bunch of girls over for a party in an attempt to integrate. Unbeknownst to me my Mother had received some live Maine lobsters for dinner. As I was coming down the stairs with my new “friends” good old Mom playfully pranked me by suddenly reaching around the stairwall…

I was having a rough senior year at college. On a particularly stressful, bad day I was walking down the hallway in the math department and my favorite professor (who was the nicest, kindest teacher, had no kids but treated all her students like her children) asked me how I was. The polite ‘Hi, how are you’ that isn’t…

I was at Macy’s returning a $300 bridesmaids dress I bought months before my obnoxious friend decided to change her wedding colors. It was finals week, that time of the month, I was broke, and when the sales associate said ‘this is last season, I can only give you $25 for it,’ I began uncontrollably sobbing. I…

I volunteered as a CASA- a Court Appointed Special Advocate for kids in fostercare. last year I ran into a kid I had been a CASA for when he was an incredibly smart but belligerent teen. I walked into a hot new restaurant and there he was.(now in his early 20s) I started to shake and asked if he remembered me. He…