Someday I’ll Be a Better Friend But For Now, Thanks for Waiting
I’m that friend. The one who takes forever to respond or sometimes doesn’t at all. She’s me. I’m the follow-up…
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I’m that friend. The one who takes forever to respond or sometimes doesn’t at all. She’s me. I’m the follow-up…
Continue ReadingSweet friend, I see you doing the best you can to smile and act like everything is OK. You’re trying…
Continue Reading“I Can Swim—That Doesn’t Mean I’m Not Drowning” is a working title for my life. You can open to any…
Continue ReadingBad ideas usually come wrapped up in pretty little packages. I’m speaking, in obnoxiously broad terms, of the self-care-obsessed society…
Continue ReadingI know someone needs to hear this. I need to hear this. It’s a simple two-word phrase: hold on. You…
Continue ReadingJust thinking about it exhausts me: I’m talking about information overload—too many opinions, too many experts, too many research articles,…
Continue Reading"I’m scary good at smiling when I’m drowning." I wrote this in a text recently, and I felt like I…
Continue ReadingI slashed through the cardboard with a serrated knife because, like everything else in my life, my kitchen shears were…
Continue ReadingI wish I could tell you how I'm feeling, I really do. But the words get trapped in my throat,…
Continue ReadingLately, I’ve been feeling like that chair. You know the one, and if you don’t then frankly this probably isn’t…
Continue ReadingThis has all been a lot. Even though most days I can feel the blessing of extra time with the…
Continue ReadingDear husband, I need your help. I need your help taking the break. I so desperately need and deserve it.…
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