Essential weekend reads: love, hate and timelessness edition

I finished the People mag detailing Katie and Tom's divorce in the first half of my flight to DC. And since then, I've been diving in to some serious, raw, and emotion-packed posts women I know and adore are courageously writing. Here four must-reads-and-weeps from this week:

On haters and Honey Boo Boo - Meagan Francis makes the compelling case for turning away from the drive-by drama of hate bloggers and hype of train-wreck show about pageant girl Honey Boo Boo, to be better, de-snarked people.

On feeding the  love - I am in love with the What I Want You to Know feature at Rage Against the Minivan. It's a series of reader submissions to encourage compassion among diverse parents. The most recent post in the series, "Don't Pity My Child Because He Wasn't Breastfed," will make you rethink every silent judgment, eyeroll, or dumb comment about a mother's choices in feeding her baby you've ever heard or given. 

On making children our own - My life and my family are very different than the one Tanis Miller at Redneck Mommy loves. But with every word she writes about son Jumby, I feel her heart beating in my chest. Read this post. It will change you and the way you see children with a troubling past.

On living each little day in big ways - My friend Talyaa has stage 4 cancer. In ways Talyaa is so gifted at expressing, she explains how she'll conjure the energy, lasso the love of her friends and partner and live out the months (or years?) she's given.