Is this your first time? Look, I know we just met, but I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful thing. You can subscribe to my RSS feed, follow me on Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, or even Facebook. But whatever. I’m breezy Read more →
A very personal fundraiser.
As many of you know, after the birth of my daughter Delilah in 2009 I suffered from a severe case of postpartum depression and OCD. It caught me completely off guard, but it shouldn’t have — one in seven mothers will find herself in its grasp. The illness and subsequent recovery changed my life in many ways (for one, I now… Read more →
“Don’t Put That On Instagram”
“Don’t put that on Instagram” she says, as I snap pictures of her digging into the cookie dough we’d just made together. She’s long had final say of what bits and pieces of her life I can share online. “How do you know about Instagram?” I ask, fully aware that she scrolls through my feed liking photos but never having… Read more →
Inconceivable.
Trying to have a baby is an emotion coaster. I never realized how lucky I was with Delilah — one cycle, one test, one healthy baby. Fertility at 27 and fertility at 34 are entirely different animals. I’ve peed on 40 ovulation sticks and at least 12 pregnancy tests in the last four months alone. At this point if I’m… Read more →
Never Gonna Say Goodbye
A year and a half ago I went to work at BuzzFeed, and I kind of just left the lights on and the door unlocked on this blog, but still it was pretty obvious no one was home. It’s not that I didn’t want to have a plan for The818, it’s just that I didn’t have a plan for anything… Read more →