I mean, yeah, thanks for loving me and everything, but if we are being real here… 1. Thank you for continuing to pretend Chipotle is healthy. 2. Thank you for letting me choose to post the photo of us that is very clearly the one that’s better of me. 3. Thank you for every …
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“Where in the heck is the cap to this thing?!” These were the words I cried out to the desolate gas station parking lot, as I stood in a suit and heels, holding a massive jug of windshield wiper fluid with snow piling on top of my head. I had just run out of wiper …
Hello my darlings. Thinking about motherhood sends so many emotions through me, like electric, terrifying joy. It shakes every part of my soul. I’ve been writing about love since I first started to journal in elementary school, but meeting each of you will mean finding the single most astounding and remarkable love I’ll ever encounter. …
Recently, someone questioned my affinity for red wine. My answer, as most of my answers, was probably not at all what they expected. “We bonded.” I said laughing, and taking a sip from the glass that had inspired such a question. “Well, I used to hate it. I was going through a difficult time when …
Look at you, you’re starting to look like a grown-up or something. 1. You don’t feel the need to gossip anymore. 2. Jealously is futile and starts to fade away as a controlling force of your mind. 3. You handle conflict directly, maturely, and respectively. 4. You know how to apologize and admit fault. 5. …
“Those sure are a lot of rings,” the Subway employee said warmly, gesturing to the ring-covered fingers frantically rooting through my wallet in search of my debit card. I smiled back at him. “Any reason why you wear so many?” I extended my fingers and looked down at my hands for a moment before responding …
Falling in love is divine. It’s boundless, bewildering, irrational, transcendent and impassioned. It awakens the soul to the best parts of our existence. Falling in love is not a restricted extravagance either. We can fall in love repeatedly, and in such a plethora of ways. We can wake up every day and decide to fall …
We all thought we wanted the mysterious, romantic “bad guy.” We thought we wanted the guy that had feelings as deep as the ocean, and knew exactly what to say. It’s natural to want to be a part of that enticing image painted before you in romance novels and movies with pretty bad actors. However, …
It sounds a little laughable, doesn’t it? The infamous “sort of” relationships is not easily defined, yet is frequently exercised. It’s the situation that happens when you’re “with” someone, but you’re not with them in the fully and committed fashion. It’s essentially relationship purgatory. There are a number of reasons why we create these odd …