Handling My Shit

Week two and I’m already floundering a bit on my new blogging schedule. Time to re-group, relax that starting goal a bit. Going from two posts in the whole of December to three days a week in January was a bit ambitious. A lot ambitious. In thinking about this, it occurs to me that I […]

January 11, 2014

They can’t all be winners.

“They can’t all be winners,” or, “one of my 2014 goals is honesty and that means I’m going to post even the pointless drafts I should keep to myself.” Those of you lucky enough to be in non-miserable temperatures or those of you with ice in your veins may well have grown tired of hearing […]

January 6, 2014

home, definition

As I suspect I’ve mentioned a time or twenty, I have a complicated relationship with my current residence. It’s only fairly recently that I’ve even been willing to refer to it as my home town. Calling it my “home town” has a weird feeling to it. It sounds like a fictional story I’m telling. Part […]

January 3, 2014

2013 In Review

I spent the month of December doing a lot of big, exciting 2014 planning with The Stratejoy Holiday Council and it was an excellent life choice. I am now in a much better place heading into 2014; I was able to lay a lot of bad, ugly things from 2013 to bed. I got a […]

January 1, 2014

Dress Up Days

December 18, 2013

Intention

This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The new year is just around the corner and one of my major personal goals is to be more purposeful in all the choices that I’m making. I make so many decisions in a […]

December 15, 2013

sitting still

Two years ago I spent Thanksgiving harassing my Twitter friends with “#ridiculouslygrateful” tweets and wrote a long post which, in addition to detailing the insane events of the week of my brother’s arrest, I talked about how the week’s lesson was on perspective. A turbulent, stressful week supposedly gave me perspective about the things that […]

November 28, 2013

grief adjacent

There’s this article I read a while back that I’ve shared in a number of places because the”Ring Theory” is incredibly useful for navigating any number of traumatic events. I recommend reading the actual article, but here’s my quick, inadequate summary: There’s always someone, or some group of people at the center of this traumatic […]

November 23, 2013

Seeds

I have always been infinitely better at ideas than follow-through. I would devolve into a hot mess of remorse if I lost sleep over all the thought-seeds I have scattered across the earth without harvesting them. Plant that shit for somebody else. Nobody wants it? Oh well. This is part of why I actively force […]

November 20, 2013

Thinking Local

This post is sponsored by Make Your Money Matter, in association with PSCU, though all views expressed are my own. – The great divide between my adolescent self and my vague-approximation-of-adulthood self really boils down to money. (Which is part of why there was this phase between the two where I was maturationally ambiguous. Don’t […]

November 4, 2013

Snark Ladies in Dallas

In my last post I mentioned my recent trip to Dallas to visit the internet. While hanging out in Dallas with my fellow snark ladies I filmed a few things. I put together a video of said things, principally for the sake of my own future nostalgia-fueled enjoyment. Just in case you’re interested in that […]

October 26, 2013

Bread Crumbs

I spent a weekend in Dallas with two of my favorite people. Sitting in a bar above a ridiculously wonderful restaurant where the waiters carry out their jobs in costume and character, we chatted about favorite books. Somewhere in this conversation I remembered a thing I had forgotten about myself. I had forgotten a belief […]

October 16, 2013