I’m so glad to see this topic, especially since I’ve been melting down all over Jezebel the last few days over an emergency due to my son’s situation.

Years ago, some very kind person paid my rent directly to my landlord’s office and left $500 cash in an envelope on the windshield of my car, anonymously, 2 weeks before Christmas. I’ve never been more thankful for anything in my entire life. I quite literally fell down to my knees and cried happy tears. I’m crying…

I’m kind of in love with the phrase “recklessly kind”, thank you.

I got really sick in my 20s and it was showing all signs of being cancer. I didn’t have health insurance (pre-ACA recent college graduate) so I applied to my state’s low-income health care coverage. I was working as a waitress at the time so my reported income was juuuuuust low enough for me to qualify but it was…

A long time ago I was in Morocco at a summer study program in a small town. Inexplicably after over a month of being there, my debit card froze and I couldn’t get any cash for weeks. My bank’s website said there were no bank branches in the country, so I couldn’t figure out how to unfreeze the account. I called the…

I worked in Financial Aid for years. I can confirm...we once had some flexibility (not in the Lori Loughlin way, but for genuinely good deeds). This is amazing, though.

Not me but something my mother did:
I lived in a remote spot of California growing up. One day on the way to school, we saw the neighbor who lived in the “weird” house walking to town with a suitcase, her dog, and a puffy, red face. Without hesitation, my mom whipped the car over, sternly said “Keep walking, I’m coming…

I will tell you the kindest thing I’ve ever done for a stranger: I said the angelus in the middle of a coffee shop with him. This guy was old and obviously lonely and I wasn’t Catholic anymore, but he said how much he missed it, and he asked if I’d do it with him. The people in that coffee shop looked at us like we…

A few weeks ago, my husband and I were on vacation in the USVI. It was our last day and we found out that our flight was delayed so we hung around by the ferry dock to get a bite to eat rather than rush to the tiny airport to just sit there. What we didn’t realize was that we had been on the last ferry of the day, so…

My parents discovered I was gay at the end of my senior year of high school, right before graduation. My father beat me nearly unconscious and I literally ran out of the house with only the clothes I was wearing. I snuck back in twice to get some things, but it barely amounted to a suitcase’s worth of stuff.

I stayed…

but this is starting to feel quite a bit like wartimes of yore.
You maybe should look for a translated version of Macron last speech a couple days ago. He said “we are at war” like 6 times in 10 minutes.
Europe (well, at least us frenchies, I haven’t checked on others so much ^^) is treating this like we are at war.…

I wonder if you can pickle that?

Yeah, my first instinct is to side with Lauren, that this is just tokenism. However, I think it’s also really important, for lack of a more diplomatic way of saying it, to remember how important tokens can be, if they also demonstrate savvy and skill.

So so many people to blame for the catastrophe of 2016

Can both of them just commit to warren as VP? That way when either of them kick the bucket we get the clear best choice for president. 

I like the idea of the half-cape on the green outfit, but the way it’s hanging—and it could just be wind—it looks like it’s trying to strangle her. (Or maybe that was the statement?)

I guess it’s funny to joke about Crohn’s.  Generally, the rule with mocking a lifelong illness is to punch up, i.e. jokes are reserved for sufferers of the disease themselves... but I don’t know you or your medical history, so sure. Haha.

Reap that whirlwind romance!

I have to admit I would not shed a tear if any of those men succumbed to something - corona virus seems to be one path.