Countless hours, days, weeks, months, and years spent wondering if I am good enough. I haven’t shaved my legs for a few weeks. It wasn’t intentional. I just haven’t made the time in the morning to get it done. There is a part of me that wants to just say I’m done. I’m going to […]
I love having people around to remind me that, no, the world doesn’t actually revolve around my diaper change schedule. When you have a child, you prepare for the fact that your life will change. Throughout the joys and tribulations of your pregnancy or your partner’s pregnancy or waiting to bring your adopted child home, […]
Anxiety has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I’m never quite sure when it’s going to happen. You would think after all these years, I would have some kind of warning sign before it starts. The situations are different. The settings and people change, but the feeling is […]
A single woman in the United States, over the course of her lifetime, could end up paying $1,002,096 more than her coupled-up counterparts. Society just doesn’t cater to single people. I’ve been in long-term relationships without a break since I was 16. I’m now almost 27 and am finally starting to understand the awesome side […]
Since I was a child, my family has treated my sensitivity as a symptom of self-centeredness, a way of privileging my own emotions over others’ by, in their view, exaggerating them, inflating them, even inventing them. Sarah Bernhardt was a late 19th-century dramatic actress from France, earning her moniker, The Divine Sarah, for her celebrated […]
And if I were to get pregnant, I’d do it again. You’ve seen the ads on Facebook. “If you used Zoloft during pregnancy and your baby was born with a birth defect, you may be entitled to compensation.” Pfizer is accused of hocking the drug to pregnant women despite known risks, including “holes in the heart, […]
Girls don’t simply decide not to have a voice. We teach them. I think I was 12 years old when I set my first one. My first New Year’s resolution. Always being a bit heavier as a kid, losing weight was at the top of my list when January 1 rolled around. My resolutions would […]
We all just do the best we can. I am still just doing the best I can. Hundreds of times over the last six years, I have been told of my strength. I have been told of my persistence, my courage, my unfailing optimism. I have been told how much I must hurt, and yet […]
