Happy Wednesday! This hummingbird image has very little to do with my post but a great deal to do with my mood. It's a good day today! I'll keep it short and sweet with a little itemized update on my life: 1. I'm getting back to posting regularly, bear with me. Turns out, it's kind of [...]
Category: Musings
We All Matter
Hey y'all, hope your weekend is going well! Today I think it's important to celebrate the wonderful women in the world, but also to honor those of us who have been lost due transphobia, racism, sexism, and other deeply destructive aspects of our society. Today we pay homage to women of all colors, creeds, sexual and [...]
My Accidental Hiatus
I was tired this month. So tired. And sniffly, and sometimes a little down. It's February, and although I did not have to face the bitter cold my East Coast friends are suffering in, there is an odd malaise that settled in nonetheless. The shortness of the month is always startling, work was stressful (but still [...]
#TGIT
Partly because I totally didn't post yesterday and partly because I think it's a great idea, I've deemed today Thankful Thursday. (Have you noticed that I love alliteration yet?) Maybe I'll alternate each week between Worldly Wednesday and Thankful Thursday, which both sound an awful lot like features on a parenting blog. But that's ok. [...]
Ok? Ok.
A little bit of an essay I've been working on, inspired by Lucky's monthly "It's Ok If..." column. It's always been my favorite part of that magazine, because it allows women to cut themselves some slack on what they "should" be doing in order to make room for self-acceptance and self-love. We could all use a [...]
All I Want for Christmas
First of all, I'd like to start this post by acknowledging how difficult the holidays can be for people suffering from depression, dealing with grief and other mental and emotional burdens. Christmasttime can feel very, very dreary for those who are not feeling up to all the holly jolly. Here is a pretty good article [...]
Almost There
Hello dear readers! Unfortunately, I missed Sunday Reads this week because I've been SO SLEEPY. It's probably a remnant of the yearly reboot that always happens around finals, even though I'm not in school anymore. My body is like "Ok, too much information and wear and tear, time to restart and update!" Only, I still [...]