New Years Resolutions – 2021 (lmao yes I’m serious)

For those of you who are newer to my life, you may not know yet that I am very into New Years Resolutions, and take them seriously, and usually even have some degree of success with them. This is because I must constantly have a project or be reinventing myself or I will die. My …

New Years Resolutions – 2020

Most people who've known me longer than a calendar year are aware that I care about new years resolutions. I don't really have anything but generalizations in my head right now, but I feel like most people don't do them anymore? Like it was a fad that went away? Well, the people who DO do …

“Florida Is Hot” and other life-altering sins

In my last post, I talked a little about what Mother's Day means to me, why it always feels like a complicated and slow 24 hours each year. It's the anniversary of being kicked out by my very own mom. I made a couple of deliberate choices in writing that post: I didn't say anything …

Doesn’t the good stuff help with the bad?

Nine years ago on Mother's Day, my mother kicked me out. I ruined Mother's Day (didn't you hear?), and we didn't speak for 2.5 years. I look back to the Facebook messages I had with her in May 2010, and it's some major heartbreaking shit, y'all. I begged her to give me a chance, I …