Because “expert” advice is doled out regularly for free on the Internet like candy from a Pez dispenser, is actual expert advice losing its financial value? My brain has been picked over like a dead gazelle. Dear God, the flies! Get them off me. Who can relate? Complete strangers on the Internet feel entitled to […]
“Cancer patients are expected to be poster children of a movement, meant to reassure the masses that this plague, and even imminent death, can be overcome with positive affirmations and attitude adjustments.” As if anyone needed reminding, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the pink is out in full force, Pepto Bismaling the world […]
“Doing what you love” is an elitist and privileged aphorism. Many individuals in marginalized communities do not have the means to just do what they love. “You have to just do what you love!” Various forms of “do what you love” serve the purpose of being inspirational and cause people to question the meaning of […]
We are scared to face women who have gone through a pregnancy loss or the loss of a baby and we don’t know what the hell to say—even if we’ve gone through it ourselves. I had a miscarriage. It’s not something I’ve written about before. But last week’s launch of Dr. Jessica Zucker’s “pregnancy loss cards” […]
We need to look at both sides of the issue when we talk about medication, not just one side or another. Everyone will have their own experience. Yesterday, a blogger named Erin Jones posted a selfie with her new antidepressant prescriptions. After trying to live her life without medication, Jones wrote in a Facebook post […]
We are all pulled in too many directions—just in different directions. No one person or category of persons has cornered the market on “Busyness.” Although there are plenty of people who would like to believe they have. Florence Nightingale asked, “Why do people sit up late or get up so early? Not because the day […]
What token of acknowledgement do I bestow upon the man who decided that my resistance and pleas were of less value than the penis he pushed into me? I don’t need flowers or a card, I’ve always been a low-maintenance kind of girl. And I certainly wouldn’t expect you to know that, traditionally, copper is […]
That first week after our wedding, we lived in a pink cloud of newlywed euphoria laced with malaise. You wouldn’t have thought we had both just experienced the best day of our lives. Four weeks ago, I woke up utterly depressed. I had just married the love of my life a few days earlier, so […]
