It's been a while. Since I last wrote, I had a surgery to remove the scar tissue from my uterus. During my recovery, in response to the hormones I was taking, and a combination of life related stressors, I suffered a pretty intense nervous break down, and had to take several months off of work …
Sunday Mornings/Being a Quaker who Can’t Sit Still is a Little Bit Ironic
Sunday morning is kind of a time when I feel like I should be at church, but I don't attend church. I am a member of a Quaker meeting in Orange County, California. The funniest thing to me being a Quaker is that at a Quaker meeting everyone sits in silence and waits to be …
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Just Being/ Okay/ I’m Okay, Okay?
How am I supposed to just be these days? If I stay quiet IRL is that the same as not posting on Facebook/Instagram/Wordpress/My Blog for a week? Will you know I am okay? Will I know I am okay? If is the internet doesn't know that I am okay, am I okay? What is okay anyway? …
Racism in Your Back Yard, I mean MY Back Yard
I live in Santa Ana. I studied Urban and Regional Planning. I am white and I would consider myself upper middle class, and lately I have been noticing a lot of changes in the neighborhood around me. This morning I had the privilege of attending a Unitarian Universalist church in Laguna Hills, and I got …
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DIY Hair or Hair Trauma/Drama or I wanted to post all these Photos of Me with Good and Bad Hair Days
DIY Haircuts have always been a thing for me. The earliest memory I have of giving myself a haircut is when I was about 5 years old, and I was at my best friend's house in Bishopville, MD. My mom has repeatedly been saying that I really needed a haircut, and so I thought Why not …
You Will Forget One Day or Miscarrying is Lame
Hi Guys. Trigger warning if the title didn't clue you in, I'm going to talk about having a miscarriage right now. I have shared pretty openly about things in the past, and so I will share again, but this one might be less humorous than normal, because, well, it has to be. Charles and I …
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It’s Birthday Week or Let’s Kick Self Judgement in the Ass
I woke up this morning and after thinking about the lives of my peers I wondered if, on the precipice of my 34th birthday, it could be said that all the choices that I've made up until this point of my life have really been so poor that I cannot turn my life around. This …
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The Decemberists Feels or Trying to Make My Sister Proud
Today as I drove out to a friends baby party, I listened to the Decemberists. I don't know if I do this when I consciously when I want to think about my sister, but no matter what happens I always wind up thinking about my sister. The Decemberists make me think of my sister because …
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The Importance of Being Authentic or Tell Your Story or Quakers and Yoga
I talk to everyone. This is something else I got from my mother. I talk to the man who works on our lobby at our 21 story office building, and I talk to people in elevators even when it makes them slightly uncomfortable. I ask real straight forward raw questions, and while I don't expect …
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Try to Do it Without Laughing or Miracles Don’t Have to Be Big
I am posting this publicly with my friends permission to post pictures of her children. I didn't use their names, but if you know us you know them, and I mean this post with so much gratitude to the joy the kids and Roxy brought to me. This one is for you pup. Also said …
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