Author: Morgan

The Merida Situation

by  on  in The Not-So-Trivial • 21 Comments

Look, you guys know I care a WHOLE DAMN LOT about body image. A whole damn lot. But this crazy hullabaloo over Merida getting a makeover? I’m not on board. To summarize, if your twitter feed hasn’t been as aggravated by this as mine: This past week Merida of BRAVE fame had her official Coronation as an official Disney Princess,… Read more →

“That’s Why Her Hair Is So Big, It’s Full Of Secrets”

by  on  in Laissez Faire Beauty, The Not-So-Trivial, The Trivial, Twenty-Seven Tresses • 1 Comment

{photo by Jill Krause} My hair has always been a weirdly important part of who I am. My eternal mood ring, it is unmatched in its ability to reflect my internal sense of self, with or without my permission. Still, almost counter-intuitively, I’ve always regarded it as “just hair” — and my willingness to try new things with it reflects… Read more →

My Friend Paul Is A Male, Childless CEO With Something To Say.

by  on  in Friends, The Not-So-Trivial • 0 Comments

I don’t publish a whole heck of a lot of Guest Posts on this site. In fact, with the exception of my super depressing September 11th Series, this might actually be the only one. But my friend Paul texted me yesterday after having stumbled across that dumb Mom-Blogger-Trashing Wall Street Journal article from last week asking if I’d consider publishing… Read more →

How The WSJ Took A Giant Dump On Women

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{Image via The Wall Street Journal.} {I know, right?} It’s weird, I recently wrote a piece about cursing and motherhood and yet, here I am sitting down to write THIS piece and all I can think of are expletives and whatever the opposite of a euphemism is. Oh, Wall Street Journal, SHAME ON YOU. This morning the Wall Street Journal… Read more →

This Is Why Our Collective Body Image Is In The Shitter.

by  on  in elsewhere, The Not-So-Trivial • 3 Comments

Kelsey is a dancer for the OKC Thunder Girls with an enviable physique. But this week, she’s not getting press for her moves between quarters. Rather, she’s the subject of ridicule by the CBS Houston (who alleges that they’re simply reporting the ‘word on the streets of OKC’) for being too chunky to cheer. Or is she. Claire Crawford, the… Read more →

Casual Coachella-Day (Or, How I Spent My Spring Vacation.) (What?)

by  on  in Casual Fridays, Friends, MamaStyle, Scott • 4 Comments

We don’t take many vacations around these parts. With both of us being self-employed, it’s hard for us to find the time to take off of work to take those much needed life-breaks. So most of the time, we just don’t. I travel for work, and we’ll do quick trips to visit our sisters on the weekends, but that’s it.… Read more →