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Note: This is 1 of 3 essays that was written for and published on The Flama last year. However, the site has since shut down (mostly) and my essay has disappeared… But the internet gods allowed me to find it in its entirety, so I am re-posting it here since a) it was fun to write &…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. We’ve all been saying it all damn year, haven’t we? 2016 IS THE WORST. I know that I’ve definitely been guilty of this sentiment, and it wasn’t really just because of the election (although that contributed to my year-end complaints). But in the past few days,…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Next week is the last day of National Recovery Month and I am taking a DEEP BREATH in order to tell you something that has taken me one year, two months and five days to admit publicly: I am in recovery. I don’t get want to go…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Let me describe my morning to you today: I woke up with Adam, lazily got out of bed as usual, showered and got ready to go to my usual coffee shop to work on this Tuesday morning. Once there, I picked up my Earl Grey hot tea,…
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Confession: I’ve been trying to grow out my hair for almost as long as I have been an adult. It’s been a long journey, mostly marred by me also having a fondness for changing my hair color constantly. In college, I went from short and red…