I agree. I had a friend who was diagnosed bipolar and had other mental health concerns, as well. One by one, she managed to alienate her colleagues and friends, but I hung in there, because as someone with depression myself, I understood that she wasn’t always in control of her thought processes. However, after…

Isn’t there a newer version of Stephen King’s movie “It” about to be released?

Every day her abuser is out and free and the court is delaying his prosecution, she is at risk. Every day she lives in terror. It took the court system a year to find him on her child support claim; she likely thought she could be facing a year (or more) of him being out there, terrorizing her while she awaited his…

“Cracker,” though has never held the same power or depth of meaning that the “n-word” has held for over 150 years.

Make no mistake, he freshened up for himself, for his own comfort. He must have been feeling a little gamey, having to watch me lie unwashed on a gurney for 28 hours as I went through the various stages of the birth process.

I actually like to see him cry because he’s having to face the agony he deserves and probably never thought would come to him. I only hope his new friends in prison pay it forward and extend that agony

My (ex) husband left me in labor, in the delivery room, to drive ten miles home and take a shower because my labor went for 28 hours and he wanted to freshen up.

This is stupid. The guy’s a jerk. I can’t figure out who would find this funny or entertaining.

I don’t think getting a discount at a department store has anything to do with Christopher Columbus. It’s just a convenient tag for retailers to be able to sell more product.

I think the implication is that sexual assault victims are quite often plagued with conditions like PTSD, substance abuse, and self esteem issues that can age a person in the wake of a traumatic experience. Whether or not we think she appears to have had a rough life, I think the comment had more to do with the…

I was recently on a date and ran into a high school girl friend I haven’t seen in years. She’s done so many drugs over the years (we’re both in our 50s now), that my date asked, “Is that your stepmom?” Hard living can make a person look older than they are

That’s how the erasure of our uglier side of history starts; substituting a word here or there, until our story is unrecognizable. “Workers” does imply something different than the horrors of slavery. In other words, it skirts the dehumanizing effects of what it meant to be called a slave.

I’m over 50, and remember my…

What is it Judge Judy always says? “Beauty fades. Stupid is forever.”

Weddings are totally overboard these days, and I agree with the sentiments around fake imagery that accompanies them. How much wistfulness can one bride, who is probably in all actuality losing her shit over wedding details anyway, be expected to convey?

Along the same lines, I saw a staged photo of a six-year old boy…