Dear Amanda-at-14, I just want to let you know that caring about stuff is okay. In fact, caring is pretty cool. I know how much easier it is to pretend like you don’t care, because if something goes wrong no one has to know that it mattered to you. I know how much you hate …
Tag: thoughts
How to Be Happy (Hint: Not with this blog)
Wouldn't it be absolutely brilliant if you could Google search or ask Siri "How to Be Happy" and get a bunch of personalized returns? A link to your soulmate, a link to your dream job, and links to fun new hobbies would all pop up and you could save them and file them and never …
Being a Woman: I Did It All Wrong
I've been spending a lot of my time thinking about women. More specifically, what it means to be a woman and how I interact with other women. I think about the single moms that I know, the athletes that I know, the single women, the coupled women, the women I work with, the women I …
“Stay weird. Stay different.”
Sometimes I write shit to myself on post-it notes. And then I tear them up and throw them away. But today I was sitting here thinking about how I had NOTHING to offer this week on the blog (brain is frying) when I thought, "Just share the post-it. Post-its look cool once they're scanned." I'm …
Unpaid Writing Gigs
At 26, and in what I hope will be deemed “The Early Years” of my writing career, unpaid writing is something with which I am both familiar and comfortable. When I’ve spoken to older or more experienced writers, they have a hard time imagining themselves ever writing for free. They’re past that, they’ve made names …
