Self

–> I wrote the below post after attending one of my very first post-grad weddings. This was approximately four years ago. When I sat down to re-write the post from my much older, wiser life position I realized that I feel the EXACT same way. That said, I’ve added a few notes in bullet points below where issues and items have adjusted now that I’m …

I don’t usually write about my birthdays until my actual day of birth, but this year I’ve been thinking about the whole ordeal much more than at previous turns. I will be 29 on August 7th. That’s one month from last Saturday. I cannot remember if my little girl self had thoughts about what I’d be doing as a 29-year-old. I remember thinking I’d be …

Dear Nora, I found myself with tears streaming down my face at the news of your passing. I was sitting in my wide-open cubicle at work when I read the news on Facebook. Not the most convenient place to be unreasonably crying one’s eyes out, but I decided that if you’d scripted my discovery of the news of your death, you’d have me crying at …

75% of that title is 100% true. I learned how to play several notes on the guitar, and you can absolutely learn those same notes too. But this isn’t a post about how my ring finger is way too small to master a G chord or how I now hate John Mayer slightly less because playing the guitar is way harder than I thought. This …

If you’re either a long-time reader of this blog or one of the dozen female friends who suffered with me through my early 20’s, you know that I do not have an abundance of experience with relationships.  I have dated, some people for more than one month even, but until R, I did not reach the coupling milestones many people achieved by the time they …