The Weirdness of Social Media
I’ve burnt a lot of bridges in my seven years of blogging. Some of them went up spectacularly for everyone to see. Others flared in the night, when no one...
Category: Friendship
Friendship Wanted
I’m feeling kind of frustrated with friend stuff. The first half of the year I was on a mission to meet new friends and cultivate meaningful relationships...
Crickets
I’m a person who values authenticity. I thrive on the truth. I want to hear and read something real. I’m not interested in glossy magazines and pint...
Check it off
I am not good at a lot of things, but one thing I am good at is getting an obscene amount of stuff done in a short amount of time. Especially when I’m rea...
Handicapped
I spent nearly a decade, from my late teens and almost through my twenties, in a fog of depression. Some of those years it was so severe as to be debilitating. ...
Conflicted
I’ve been dealing with some stuff on the friendship front that I’ve really wanted to work through here but I feel that I can’t. I don’t ...
Reactions
I was told, not long ago, that I am prone to overreact, to turn every minor set back into a four alarm fire. I was told this by someone who knows me well and wh...
I Don’t Know How
I’ve been really down this past week, stuck in a low, low funk. I thought it was my period, which took it’s sweet time showing up, and made me an aw...
Ambivalence in Parenting
Two of my good friends are pregnant. I’m having a hard time with it, but not in the way I expected. Mostly I’m not sure how I feel about it. I guess...
Just What I Needed
A huge thank you to the women who commented on my last post. I feel like I have a much better handle on the whole situation, both why it is difficult for me and...