Jenna, You Should…
Do this. Do that. Go left. Turn right. Fuuuuuuuuck. Can I ever do anything right? According to everyone else, no. Isn’t that what we are taught growing up? To be perfect little specimens? Quite frankly I am tired of being picked and prodded. I am not a heifer. I feel like that’s what we women […]
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Back to the Basics
I’m sad. I’ve been that way for a bit now. I can see it in the pictures that I take. I am smiling, but it doesn’t quite reach my eyes. I’ve been here before. This is nothing new. I am just so overwhelmed right now. I’ve gone back to my morning pages recently as a […]
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Lammas Day
Astrologically speaking August 1 marks the midpoint between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox. This totally reminds me of when I used to write press releases for the Science Museum. I did my internship there in college, but I digress. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, this “pagan day of harvest and thanks” is when […]
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Leo Season
Zodiac’s storyteller travels its journey through our galactic skies from June 23 to August 22. This fire sign also happens to be my moon sign. (Holy crap! Remember that time I got blown up in a food truck during a full moon? That’s some weird synchronicity.) Everyone spends a ton of time talking about their […]
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For the Children
First it was all the abortion laws. We were told it was to protect the children, an unborn life, forgetting about the women suffering over their labors. The mother could die for all they care. Her work here is done. She is left lying there, a deflated balloon, no longer a necessary pawn in this […]
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Et Tu, Brute?
We fight for our places in this world. We are in a constant war between ourselves and the people around us, their expectations of us that we could never possibly live up to. Maybe we don’t even want to. Maybe there is something different out there. I never really felt at home anywhere growing up, […]
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New Moon
I have been crying entirely too much recently. I mean, it’s been quite therapeutic releasing all of these pent up emotions. But give me a fucking break already! Between the red, puffy eyes and the ugly crying, I am getting real over this watery season we are in. I am not one of those people […]
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Words
Sticks and stones can break my bones, But words can never hurt me. They said to it the kids who were being bullied, to me. Guess what? They were wrong. Words can sucker punch you in the stomach. They can shoot an arrow into your heart. They can swipe your feet out from under you. […]
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Creativity
We tell each other to create things, but then we judge each other for what we created and how we created it. The inner critic inside ourselves is the hardest to stop listening to, even though they are sometimes the quietest of all to speak. They also do the most damage. and snakes and stones […]
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Distress Tolerance
Life isn’t fair. This one took me years to swallow. (Hello privilege!) I fought pretty hard to hide from it though. I wanted to keep it all inside. The unspoken pain that I tried to shove down, because I didn’t want it to be there. I thought that if I kept shoving it down that […]
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