Some really awful daughters may have been tempted by that Christmas card idea. Well done for resisting.

She was pretty cool. Especially when it came to the awkward stuff. Her combined sense of humor and sensibility were a blessing and kept me out of any real trouble.

Bless your mom. :)

The dialogue really is maddeningly unrealistic. Everyone on the show speaks in speeches of threes: Pick me. Choose me. Love me. Once I realized that, it became so distracting. I feel like I could write the show now.

Shonda said in the past that Izzy was one of her favorite characters. I liked Izzy too, up to a point. Then I was just like wtf?

My parents were married for 51 years. The last year my mother spent caring for my dad, who died of colon cancer in 1997. Once the grieving process was over, the dark veil of loneliness descended. She had lots of friends, but going home alone to an empty house was very hard.

Ugh-massively hormonal today and this is not helping me not irrationally cry at my desk.

I think he’s pulling off the no socks awesomely.

Pornified. That’s my new favorite word. Or porniness. Tough, those are both GREAT words.

I want in on this family!! They just look so amazing and family-y.

If everyone kept all of their issues offline and inside of a therapists’ office, there would be nothing interesting to read. And besides, if putting myself out there can in some way, help other people cope, then why not?

Thanks for my new profile pic!

Solange’s son has been the cutest possible version of every single age I’ve seen him photographed at. It’s getting ridiculous.

I lost my mom five years ago. It seemed my dad started dating someone immediately, but I think he waited a few months. They got married a year-ish later, and he sold the house I grew up in. I was furious. I was sad. I couldn’t speak to my dad for weeks after he announced their engagement (on Mother’s Day, no less,…

My mom died 12 years ago, after 27 years of marriage to my dad. For many years now he's been dating a friend of his, and recently gave her an engagement ring (though he's told me there's no plan to do more than that for the time being; among other things, she's divorced and there are child support implications…

I don’t get why people are so shocked by it. I don’t even follow the who signed on for how long rumours, but is longish absence this season made me suspect that something was up and last week’s sudden peak of marital bliss for Derek and Meredith left him a dead man walking. It’s tv 101.

I thought the belly ache meant she was pregnant. I could see how it could go the other way and kissed something else.

Ugh, this wannabe victim. Riding the rape-accusation train to GLORY. Now look at her. She’s got everything! A face with a mouth! College! A mattress! Some people who don’t like this precious male on her behalf! WHAT NEXT?! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO GIVE THIS LIAR NEXT?!

SHONDA YOU CRUEL, CRUEL MISTRESS!

I laughed so hard when my sister phoned to tell me he died cause there wasn’t a neurosurgeon to save him.