I'm just going to come out and say it: moving sucks. It's expensive, time-consuming, and emotional. There are so many big and little things that need to be done, so I've created a list. This is everything I can think of that I have had to do while ...
You Are Allowed to Tell Body Shaming Relatives to Back Off
Ah, Thanksgiving. The holiday based on celebrating European colonialism and fraught with endless familial obligation. Hooray. One especially insidious issue is that of relatives commenting on your weight or your food intake. They often do it in suc ...
4 Things I Learned In One Month of the Miracle Morning
In April I wrote that I was going to try the Miracle Morning, from the self-help book (affiliate link) of the same name. To recap, the basic premise is that you get up about an hour earlier than usual and do a series of tasks called Life S.A.V. ...
Sounds Hokey, But I’m Trying It: The Miracle Morning
(Note: this post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure here.) I stumbled across the book The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod by accident -- I was looking for something to fulfill one of the prompts in my 2018 reading challenge. The category ...
Loving My Difficult Dog
I adore my little chihuahua, Wesley. But he is not an easy dog. He came to me in a way that let me know he wouldn't be simple. He was malnourished, unneutered (at an estimated 9 years old), had a skin problem and a heart condition, and he had been aban ...
Keep Your Body Issues Away From My Dog
I briefly mentioned Wesley, my foster chihuahua, awhile back in a general post about life. Since then, I have officially adopted him and we're very happy together. What I'm not happy about, however, is the comments I get from strangers about his body. ...
Life Gets in the Way
In the time since I last posted, a lot has happened. Or, at least, enough has happened that it hijacked my brain and made things like blogging seem impossible. Mainly, my wonderful new apartment has turned out to be not-so-wonderful. See, not too lon ...
What is “Millennial Pink,” and Why Do I Care?
Apparently my generation has its own shade of pink. I didn't know this until recently, when I read about it in The Cut. They say it "refuses to go away," but that was the first time I'd heard about it. Millennial Pink is a shade somewhere between past ...
When it Rains, it Pours, and Other Such Clichés
I swear, there is so much truth to the old cliche, "when it rains, it pours." Sometimes it feels like you're in a rut for a long time, and then when you make one change, others follow. For months I was toiling away pretty happily, doing my blogging work ...