If you live under a rock, or don’t stalk me enough on Twitter and Instagram, you have no idea that my women’s empowerment org Moredinary is teaming up with Yetti’s women’s empowerment org, Certified 10 for Think This Way: Developing the Negatives. Our hope is that everyone will leave with a new ...
Two Years Subtle: Happy Blogaversary Ever So Roco
I felt silly buying a cupcake for this, but I had reason to celebrate. Every year I let arbitrary dates pass me by without so much as a wiggle of my ear. Every year I forget the day I went natural and neglect the day I met you. But this year, on this occasion, I remembered. On February 17, 2014, a ...
Fake Sister, Real Life: How my imaginary sister made me a better person
I was ten and learning the steps to a long dance with loneliness when she first appeared. She was the most loving, caring, nurturing, imaginary being I’d ever conceived. My therapist may have a different term for her, but I called her my sister. And I needed her in the same way that my flesh and ...
Fighting the Sunday Sads
I do what I can to make Sundays special. I like Sundays. The mornings are always glorious. The afternoons tend to be sweet. But every Sunday evening around 5:00, I start to get this dread in my stomach as I begin to acknowledge that time is running out. Apparently this is a thing, and for most ...
I Ain’t Trippin’ Over Weight Loss
The first time I lost a significant amount of weight I was 13 and my Gram was dying. Going from 180 to 160 lbs was less about my parents having a “blimp for a daughter” and more about trying to avoid packing three grandparent deaths into two years. I would take the long way home from school, ...
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