This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. In trying to do everything, do we sacrifice the personal goals that matter the most? Most days I get out of bed at 5:45am and practice yoga. I do not leap or spring, in fact I’m a zombie until 7am, when BOOM! I feel […]
Your infertile friend doesn’t want your sympathy. She just wants your friendship. One afternoon when my son was a colicky, refusing-to-sleep newborn and I was stuck home with him, out of my mind from sleep deprivation and round-the-clock nursing, a good friend played for me a voicemail she’d saved for a year, in which I […]
This originally appeared on Eat The Damn Cake. Republished here with permission. I want it to sound weird that gay people weren’t allowed to get married; I want women to not feel guilty for eating; and I want being nerdy to be a real option. I want more movies and TV shows to have female […]
This originally appeared on Overland.org. Republished here with permission. The process of dying isn’t always about the patient, it’s about their loved ones. Nine months ago my mom asked me to buy an axe and chop her head off. I joked with her. Told her it would be a messy way to go. She was […]
We plan our futures with our partners, but we examine our present with our friends. I was tired, exhausted, and still getting over a cold when my partner dropped me off at the airport a few weeks ago. Not for the first time, I thought maybe I should skip this trip. As much as I […]
Little girls aren’t taught to be brave, leading to fully-grown women having dreams far bigger than their sense of agency can execute. You’ve seen Nymphomaniac, right? Art cinema is slow in arriving to the small Colombian mountain town where I live, but even I have managed to (start) watching Volume 1 of Lars von Trier’s […]
This originally appeared on Of Sugar-Baited Words. Republished here with permission. We’ve all been programmed to believe that self-loathing is the norm, so self-acceptance must be a lie. New words and concepts are being coined all the time. Last year was the year of the “selfie,” and I can barely remember a time before “Google” was […]
Navigating the real world in your 20’s is hard enough. Try doing it as an alcoholic. If you or a loved one has ever attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you are likely to have heard some variation of this slogan, “If you hang around a barber shop long enough, eventually you’re gonna get a haircut.” […]
