So what's not on fire these days? Every time I turn around a new city, new country, or an entire continent is on fire. It's disturbing seeing our planet in great distress, yet I feel hopeless watching her die. I don't care about politics or debates. They only cause division and warfare, ignoring the real problem at hand. I don't care if you think climate change is not real or caused by human hand. But I think we're all in agreement our mother Earth is important and needs our …
Life
5 Simple Rules to Live by for a Happy Life
Life is hard. I don't mean that in the cliche kind-of-way, but it's true. As soon as you get ahead and take a breather, the universe throws another meteor at your head. You know, the meteor? The one wiping out the dinosaurs and causing a mass extinction 65 millions years ago. Well life is the same way (maybe less dramatic and catastrophic?) One minute your moving into your new apartment, all excited and full of hope, and the next you end up gulping and chewing down a few roaches in …
Don’t Teach Your Daughters to be Friendly
School is back in session and summer is slowly (extremely hot still) but surely turning to Fall. With pages upon pages of back-to-school pictures of happy kiddos and life wisdom, I've discovered a trend I'm not cool with. Overall lesson of this article is don't teach your daughters to be friendly with everyone. I viewed countless articles and posts where mothers are encouraging and teaching their daughters (only daughters, never sons??) to be friendly, inclusive, nice, polite, and talk and …
The Many Ways I’m Not a Southern Lady
Let's do something fun. I've posted topics recently on my many dresses (like here and here), and I feel like it's time for a break. So I'm going to share the 10 ways I'm not a southern lady. I came up with this fun topic one day as I scrolled through IG (hey! follow me yo!) So what did I noticed? I saw a trendy feed of lavish southern ladies (specifically southern state ladies, who are self-proclaimed southern) sharing specific traits. Now I mean absolute no harm or will-ill in …
4 Ways to Empower Bullying Victims
Last month an 8th grade boy committed suicide in our schools. A few years ago, a college teen girl hanged herself in my neighborhood. We all asked the same question, why? Why did they take their own lives? Simple, they were bullying victims. One was threatened and harassed online by insecure girls, and the other was belittled and beat up for being quirky and quiet. No one did anything to stop it. Even the school knew his torture and plans to commit suicide and didn't intervene. I …