It begins in my gut. What was that that bothered me? Shit. Now it’s in my chest but I still can’t remember what I stumbled across or thought about or saw that made me feel left out, forgotten about, less than. I wonder how I have any room for organs at all when my body is so filled with this… Read more →
Month: May 2014
Never Trust A Big Butt And A Smile
If this isn’t the greatest photo ever taken, well then I just don’t know what. Because obviously MTV Generation + BBD = ALL THIS ^^. We are in it to win it you guys. [Those buck ladies grooving with me are my fellow travelers through the blogosphere (from right) Cara, Jessica, Jen, Heather, Jill, Me (duh), Isabel, & Heather, if you don’t… Read more →
The Internet Can Be Beautiful and Horrible and Confusing Sometimes, And So Can Life
If you’d asked me five years ago if I thought I’d ever meet someone “from the internet” I would have thought you were creepy and changed the conversation. There was a time when meeting people from the Internet was something I considered a one-way ticket to inspiring your own episode of Law & Order. But now? I can’t imagine my… Read more →
Coming Home: Surviving Culture Shock In Your Native Land
[Editor’s Note: I hope you guys will welcome Lindsey to The 818. She’s someone Scott and I both go way back with (Scott to birth, while Lindsey and I met early in High School). She’s on of those rare people in our lives whose relationship with each of us pre-dates our relationship together. And last year after she married Mike, who… Read more →
Stop What You’re Doing And Bring Back Our Girls.
There have been days of my life…so many days…when I’ve thought I had a bad life. When I’ve thought that this world in which I live comfortably with a roof over my head and food on my table and an education in my mind is anything other than one of privilege and abundance. That this incredible life in which I use that… Read more →