This is a story about my (im)perfect family. About sacrifice. About love. Everyone hears about the perfect family. A loving mother and father, two-to-four kids. But "perfect families" are the rarity these days, and what you have in reality is one big hot mess of humanity, stepping on everyone's toes, breaking rules, and now and then wishing they had any family but their own. See this lady? She's the start of my imperfect family. Not the cause of imperfection. But the start of ... VIEW POST
Warning: True Southern Belles should avert your eyes. Things could get ugly up in here. I have ugly hands. All you hand models out there? God love ya. I could never be a hand model. I used to think I had normal hands. Pretty hands, even. Now? I have no idea what happened. My hands are oddly shaped, with square and chubby palms. They're giant man-hands. For some reason, no matter how hard I scrub, the knuckle skin looks like I haven't washed it since last year. I promise you, I've ... VIEW POST
It was the middle of the day when she went to get water. Not morning, when other ladies would be there. Not the cool of the evening, when the sun would retreat to the horizon. The middle of the day. She chose this time out of necessity, because she’d been slut-shamed before. Yeah, I said it. This woman with five husbands in her past and a new “friend with benefits” – she came to the well to get water at a time when she knew no one else would be there because she couldn’t take the bullying ... VIEW POST
Here it comes. That hard talk no one wants to have. The one we have with ourselves that admits we can do better. Do you see this app? This one right here? It looks innocent, doesn't it? Rated 4+, you can choose from a variety of cool photos to use as your phone background. There's even a cool search function where you can look for a specific topic. Kittens? Yes. Darth Vader? Yes. The great thing about this app? This age 4+ app? It pulls photos from the internet. So anything that is ... VIEW POST