My mother was raised by her mother and grandmother. Her parents divorced when she was very young and her mother was a single, working...

I've made so many updates to the house! A very kind friend came and helped me unpack several boxes in the third bedroom and I've been...

There is a unique kind of agony and intensity attached to being a fat girl. I know. I've been one. And now, I'm a fat woman. And it's...

I’ve got to get out of the house. Right now, it’s winter and we just had a record snow fall and, of course, I’m going a little stir...

So, I know I've been gone from this particular blog for a little while. Apologies. I took a new job, got a dog, and basically had a lot...

The world of high school is so strange. As a teen, I often wondered how it was that some people seemed to navigate school without all of...

Filmmaking, as an interest for teens and young adult types, is one of those tropes that became the hallmark of a sensitive, complicated...

Even though the truth is relative, there is an obsession with knowing it, discovering it, and revealing it. Whether it's The Truth or...

There is something about ballerinas that inspires horror. At least, pop culturally, anyway. If you haven't seen Black Swan (Darren...

I continued the closet doors project and fancied them up. I'm pretty happy with them...and when I'm not anymore, I'll peel off that...