Lemon
I am tired. Tired of working on myself. Tired of something being wrong. Tired of needing to change. It started when I was 16, and it’s been an endless pro...
Category: Identity
Speaking Shame
I’m sorry I left for two weeks without a word. I never intended to be gone for so long. I faced a perfect storm of deadlines (my final Creative Nonfiction...
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything”
It’s only been a week since I decided to change the way I live and already I feel a weight has been lifted. I’ve been moving through my house, getti...
Why I’m Here
Why am I here? In this space? Writing under this name? {And where did I get that name anyhow?} It seems I didn’t make these things clear. And I want to, a...
Where I am
I have not been participating in this community in the ways that I want to. I want to be commenting more. I want my presence on friends’ blogs to be felt,...
Inevitable Failure
I have been entertaining a terrifying thought of late: What if I can’t be the person, or parent, I expect myself to be? What if it is simply, and inexorab...
Loneliness {Part 2}
In her book Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude, Emily White categorizes loneliness in four ways. On one axis are emotional and social loneliness. Social lon...
Loneliness {Part 1}
Lonely is not a word I identified with much. I’ve always had friends and things to do. I meet people easily, consider myself social and have felt I belonged in ...
The New Me
In the past three months I lost 25 lbs, got an IUD placed, bought (and was gifted) a whole new wardrobe (and even some new jewelry and shoes), tried in earnest ...