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Published: July 13, 2025

I Will Never Have the Best Year of My Life

Me with my mom on my wedding day

When I graduated high school, my friend Matt was the valedictorian. In his class address, he said that our four years together were good, but they weren’t the best years of our life. The best years were yet to come. It was a good speech. At the time, I didn’t have much to compare it… [Read More]

Leave a CommentFiled Under: GriefTagged With: motherhood, parenthood


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Published: April 20, 2022

Sexual Harassment on the Frozen Foods Aisle

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You are so gorgeous. The words hit me quickly, quietly. Panic rose up in my throat even as I kept pushing my cart down the aisle. My heart racing, my anxiety spiking, an adrenaline rush of fear–all in a split second, before my mind could even process. Did that just happen? I immediately started second-guessing… [Read More]

Leave a CommentFiled Under: FeminismTagged With: advocacy, sexism


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Published: August 3, 2020

Challenge Accepted: A Controversial Instagram Trend

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Is your Instagram feed flooded with badass women posting black and white photos of themselves and writing out Challenge Accepted? My pinktastic, feminist soul initially loved this celebration of womanhood, especially the way my friends took part. My friends who decided to post are women who do volunteer work in their communities, who use their… [Read More]

Leave a CommentFiled Under: FeminismTagged With: Instagram


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Published: February 26, 2020

My Eye is on the Sparrow

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Welcome to the eighteenth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Spirituality. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength.  While brainstorming today’s blog post, I looked out at the bird-feeders in my front garden. Immediately the words came… [Read More]

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Published: February 26, 2020

The Problem with Strong Independent Women

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Welcome to the seventeenth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Strength. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Forgiveness.  “Brita is a strong independent woman who don’t need no man,” my best friend joked at a… [Read More]

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Published: February 18, 2020

Learning How to Live with Grief

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Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Respect.  Grief is a learning process. It’s been 4 1/2 years since my mom died. I still think about… [Read More]

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