A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Besties
I decided to use the old adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” to inspire a random post every once in a while — basically, the objective is to find pictures that sum up whatever topic I feel...
View ArticleA Wee Expansion
Friday, Friday, everybody’s glad it’s Friday…I woke up with Rebecca Black’s “Friday” stuck in my head, and it’s driving me slowly insane. Ack. Anyways, because it’s Friday and we’re all probably more...
View ArticleThursday By the Numbers
Good morning, and happy Thursday! Welcome to the home stretch before the weekend — which is unquestionably the best part of the workweek. As if that weren’t enough, I have an awesome evening planned:...
View ArticleInspirational Women: Rebecca Yarros
Good morning, and happy it’s-not-Monday-anymore! After yesterday’s dreary weather, I’m looking forward to the impending return of the sun. Adding to the general awesomeness is today’s Inspirational...
View ArticleGettin’ My Goal-Setting On: Goals for June, the Summer, and the Big Picture
Ok, so I know I’ve mentioned this before, but…seriously, how can it possibly be June already?! I’m flabbergasted, y’all. Bewildered. Thunderstruck. How did this happen? Didn’t Brandon and I move into...
View ArticleWhiskey Tango Foxtrot? (Or, Why I’ve Been AWOL from the Blogosphere for Three...
So, as y’all may or may not have noticed, I’ve been on an extended hiatus from blogging lately. And by “extended,” I mean three months. Which, in the blogging world, is basically an eternity. (I don’t...
View ArticleOh, Hai!
Oh hai! Well, after swearing that I’d never go AWOL from blogging again, I totally did exactly that. (We all know what they say about the road to hell and good intentions and yadda yadda yadda.)...
View ArticleI Call Bullsh*t: Fear Mongering and Pushing Perfectionism in Health Articles
I’ve spent a long time being a voracious consumer of health research. My interest began after my Celiac diagnosis and continued unabated for years. I (metaphorically, and with pun intended) gobbled up...
View ArticleDon’t Call It a Comeback*
*Nah, it’s actually fine to call it a comeback. That’s pretty legit, actually. Welp, it looks like I pulled a disappearing act again. I’m like Houdini, but with less magic! Truth be told, after all...
View ArticleWriting Exercise: Three Things that Stopped Me in My Tracks
This exercise, which comes from Now Write! Nonfiction (edited by Sherry Ellis), asks that you describe three things – all of which happened in the fairly recent past – that stopped you in your tracks....
View ArticleWriting Exercise: Do You Rehearse Phone Calls Before Making Them?
Last week, The New York Times ran a Modern Love column that, as far as I can tell, garnered more attention than any previous Modern Love column has. In it, the author writes about how she and her...
View ArticleFeels Like Home
This post got me thinking about the idea of home — and the idea that while I’ve lived a great many places, very few have felt like my own. We moved around a few times when I was growing up, so the...
View ArticleA New Look + Some Updates
This weekend was busier than I’d anticipated, so I didn’t get a chance to do much in the way of writing. I did, however, update the template for the site — it’s a bit cleaner than the old one, and it’s...
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