Celebrating Me. Celebrating You.
Dear 16-year-old me, You’ve got a pretty sweet life and right now it feels like the whole world could be yours. After coming back from a four-month exchange in Germany I know you’re consumed by conflicting feelings of wanderlust and wondering if you have what it takes to make it in the much smaller world of [...]
This week we asked you to respond to the prompt “When I look in the mirror…” I have been thinking about this prompt for days. DAYS. Because I could probably write an entire book just from this one prompt. (Don’t worry, I am not going to do that here.) But something happened to help me [...]
I have been MIA. The last blog post I wrote was thirty days ago. I had just celebrated my first blogversary, had a series of guest posts lined up, and was going on a short vacation with my daughter for her spring break. We went to Paris and then Courchevel for skiing. I had an [...]
On February 3, I took a pregnancy test, in the way you do when you’ve sort of been trying to get pregnant and you sort of hope you might be but don’t really think so (because, after all, why would this be the month when so many others weren’t?). Which is to say casually. I [...]
A couple of months ago, I decided to start looking for a job. It was exciting as I looked at all of the possibilities in front of me. I could try something new. I could find the perfect place where I was both challenged and could make a difference. That excitement has worn off. I’ve [...]
I have a secret. I have a monster in me. A mean and vicious monster. I have known about this monster all my life, although I always thought that my monster was my inability to ask for help. But today, I realize that my monster is more than just not being able to ask for [...]
I close my eyes and see a scale. Not the one shoved under the bathroom cabinet every day except Monday mornings but a delicate device struggling to balance what’s placed on its plates. My pink scribbled notes run together in my notebook. I came back from Blissdom, my first blogging or writing conference, with a [...]
Imagine feeling taller. Imagine feeling stronger from the inside out. Imagine knowing and BELIEVING that you are strong. Just.Be.Enough.
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