I started running at the beginning of this year and your advice is excellent. I did the Runkeeper C25K program twice but the second time I skipped the first three weeks. Before when I’d try to create a running regime I’d push too hard and too fast and my shin splints would sideline me. This time (and this is what I…

I admit that more than once I’d remember something that happened to me as a kid and mention it to my sister and she’d say, “That was Ramona.” As in, “Remember when we were in the basement and I took one bite out of all of those apples and you were so mad at me?” So then we started going, “Remember that time that mom…

Oh god I am so sorry that this happened to you. I had bad therapists, too (it’s one reason I became a therapist) and we do so much harm when we fuck up. I’m just really sorry that your therapist didn’t protect you and your privacy. That should never have happened. Also you can grill us before you make an appointment.…

Most of my cases are pretty straightforward (I specialize in in/fertility, postpartum work, adoption, parenting) and I have a good memory. If a client is telling me about an affair but doesn’t want that stated in the case notes, I can just say we talked about a “relationship” and it’s enough to know what I mean if I…

I’m a therapist. Your notes can be subpoenaed by the other side but giving them to the court would be a clear, license-lost violation because HIPAA. You can sign a release that releases your notes TO YOU and then you can choose to do what you want with them (you don’t have to make them part of the case). You can also…

It’s a private text thread between friends; it was never meant to be public. Letting off steam by being shitty with a friend isn’t the same as publicly trash talking someone. Please note that Lady Gaga calls Kesha out and Kesha hears her and responds. 

Disagree. Feelings are morally neutral. Talking to a trusted friend about those feelings, also morally neutral. Taking it public (Kesha didn’t, tried NOT to) or trying to turn other people to your side, not ok but Kesha didn’t do that. Also in this text exchange Kesha backs right down when Lady Gaga gently calls her…

I’m sorry that this experience has been so painful for you. (I hope this doesn’t come across as internet sarcastic — I mean I really am sorry.) I think your current experience is, unfortunately, much more typical, which is to say, welcome to the club. It is painful to fall short of societal standards but fortunately…

But people won’t listen to women who are NOT conventionally beautiful who say this stuff (because trust me they are) — they don’t have her platform. She has this platform because she’s talented and smart but also beautiful and thank goddess she’s using it to make this kind of positive noise. I have no problem with her…

That was Groucho Marx who said the first. Do not sully Groucho by putting him anywhere near Woody.

Umm, I met my husband when I was 20 and didn't screw it up. At least not yet (22 years later). Which is to say, even youngsters ought to know enough not to cheat. Otherwise I agree with you — she doesn't owe anyone a press release and her apologies are best made in private.

Membership fees may be legit but mandated membership fees, not so much. Also whoever has the hundred bucks a year synagogue? Color me jealous. Ours is WAY more than that.

That's my neighborhood! We have power here on the edge but the people who live near there are still without power in 90+ degree weather (and heavy humidity). All the hotels around central Ohio and beyond are filled up and people aren't sure when they'll have A/C, hot water or the 'fridges back up and running. Also a…

She was also one of the fairies in Sleeping Beauty and one of the nuns in Sound of Music. She was nervous about seeing Julie on set because of the My Fair Lady thing but Julie, of course, was the epitome of class and graciousness.

Also they said Julie Andrews wasn't pretty enough.

Ohmigod, it's even more heartwrenching in the book. I thought I'd be full out snot-nose sobbing and I wasn't (at the movie) but I did cry at the beginning watching the moms sending their children out for The Reaping.

I think it's handled well and also seeing Haymitch as Woody plays him made sense to me, too, because it's the only way they could get across how hard he's working for the kids. In the books that's not as clear, which is fine because you're seeing him through Katniss but in the movie it helps to speed things along.

I have known biracial people with blonde hair in blue eyes so I have to disagree with this argument. However, I do think Katniss was white in the books and I think Jennifer Lawrence (after seeing her in Winter's Bone, which is like Hunger Games only real life) was great casting. Saw it last night and still feel this…

Right, there's diet and then there's eating healthfully and sometimes children will eat healthfully and they'll still be fat just like sometimes adults will eat healthfully and they will still be fat. The problem is conflating health with fat instead of conflating health with eating well and moving. Some of us are fat…

Shameless bragging (sort of) but I have a cover story in the next issue of Brain Child ([www.brainchildmag.com]), which should be out on newstands next week. Hopefully my feature will be online, too (their features usually are) and it's about the childhood obesity "crisis". I came away from the research on that piece…