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 …
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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 …
Stop Telling Women We’re Not Equal
First of all, I want to say every topic I discuss comes from God. He inspires me. I don't know if it's for me or for someone else but when I feel the stir I know it's time. So needless to say I've been thinking about this topic, passionately swirling around. I recently read an article on the Odyssey on the Christian rejection of feminism and why women aren't equal to men (check it out here). This little girl discusses why she's not a feminist and why women are second to men, and she uses …