Some girl wants to be Barbie when she grows up. The place card in the middle of my table tells me so. A pain in my chest resonates. It’s a doll. She wants to be a plastic doll? It feels like nothing and everything all at once.
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It happens in a second. As quick as I can sharply inhale. Yet it happens quietly, so she doesn’t hear the sound. I glimpse the face in the photo we just snapped and I don’t recognize myself behind some added lines and layers. My finger hovers above the trash icon. Waging war with a battle I can never win. Fueled
Read moreThe last two months have felt like I am slowly getting my life back after a debilitating knee injury over two years ago. Thanks to some viscosupplement injections I have started to regain movement and function in a knee riddled with scar tissue and inflammation. I have biked, I have hiked, I have even rekindled a small romance with running. I have
Read moreThere are young girls all across this country actively distracting their entire student population and teachers every single day. At least if you believe what you read. What crazy acts of violence, illegal drugs, and debauchery are they partaking in this time? They wear yoga pants. Or formal dresses showing their shoulders. They show up to school with slightly pink hair after participating
Read moreI once had a boyfriend who held me down on the bed and spit in my face, refusing to let me leave the house. When justifying it later, as he usually spent hours doing, he said it was his only choice since he couldn’t hit me. Personally, I think I would have rather taken a punch. That is what I
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We've convoluted the word fat from something that describes a body type to something that describes someone's worth. And I can't stand it.
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 