Closets stand on the north and south sides of our bedroom, one for the husband and one for me.  Built into the slanted eaves of our second story, they’re identical in their small size. His is neat and organized, everything placed meticulously onto hangers and shelves, shoes lined up on the floor. Mine is a [...]

The lovely Missy recently posted a photo made up only with her smile, and the Just.Be.Enough team discussed a series of photos in the same vein. I hesitated. I’m not mortified by the way I look in the morning, face bare but for the shadows of mascara I didn’t remove thoroughly enough to withstand my [...]

My mother converted to Catholicism after marrying my father, but her good-girl label had nothing to do with the church she attended. Her pragmatism and relatively chaste beliefs collided as we ventured into talks about sex and marriage and virginity. She never hesitated to share the physical aspects of what sex entailed, but the emotional parts [...]