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No Wire Hangers
::Last week to Gail:: Me: I hope she’s nice to me. I’m really looking forward to it. ::text:: Me: I’m crying in my mother’s SUV now. I am perpetually 14 years old in her presence. Me: The night got a...
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Why didn’t anyone like me?!?!: Why I was a bully.
When I was little, I had many of the personality characteristics I have now. I was determined, prideful, creative, intelligent, funny, competitive, and obsessive. I was and am very much my father’s...
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The Antagonistic Aunt: Why does this kid like me?
I’m gonna be upfront about something. It’s pretty politically incorrect. Here goes… I don’t like kids. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I want to be Carrie from Sex and the City 3… I’m just...
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A Call for Censorship
I am a librarian. Now, most people think that means I shush folks, shelve books, and push my glasses up my nose with my forefinger. Indeed, I’ve done all of those things, but there’s more to it than...
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Big Girl(?) Woes
You know, for someone who doesn’t make a dime off her blog, I’m incredibly reliable, fueled only by your follows, likes, and comments. Maybe it’s because I think too much and without some kind of...
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Three Ways Public Education is Doing Your Child a Disservice
Gail: So, remember how bored you were earlier? Me: Lol. Yes. Gail: Maybe you should’ve read some blogs. I have a GREAT one I’d suggest, but it’s only been updated once this month. Gail, you hear these...
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The Mommy Wars: As Witnessed by an Unwilling and Childless Casualty
As a Southern 26-year-old, I’m living a life that’s more Friday Night Lights than Sex and the City, (as evidenced by my incredibly dated television references). With that, comes a social media news...
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An Open Letter to My Engaged Teenage Cousin:
Recently, you announced to the world, via Facebook, that you are engaged. I thought you were joking, not only because you just celebrated your first boyfriend, first job, and 18th birthday, but because...
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Lessons in Parenting from Social Media
I don’t have children. For the time being, I don’t lament that fact. I, however, do work with children and have a bachelor’s degree that required quite a bit of child development and child psychology....
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A World Without Grace
I was in class the day Grace came into the world. I left early, when I got Gail’s text, planning to visit her in the hospital. Gail and I, being Gail and I, she was comfortable telling me that she was...
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Things I Will Not Do as an Adult, Wife, and Mother
Gail’s engaged, y’all. I know, I know. After she’d lived with Terry for three and a half years, we’d all pretty much lost hope, but there it is: my best friend is getting married. Some people do buy...
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The One Promise I CAN Make to My Future Children
Dear Future Children, I have six or seven unopened pregnancy tests under my bathroom counter, right now… and not out of hope, but paranoia. I’m not ready for you yet. You’re really more of a concept,...
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No. It’s not okay if I get pregnant.
I’ve had to abandon hormonal birth control, because it makes me sick. While I’m considering an IUD, that’s something of a process, so it’s just condoms and somewhat hypocritical prayer for the time...
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My Escape From Social Media
I am a millennial in every sense. I haven’t had cable for years. I go nowhere without my Kindle. I use a tablet at work, instead of a notebook. I have six figure student loan debt, for a degree that no...
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Cheering for the Underdog: the Frustrations of a Teen Librarian
I’m a married, thirty-year-old woman, with a degree in education, who has every intention of having her own children… and I don’t like kids. That statement is usually met with confusion or melodramatic...
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Teenagers are Starved
… for attention, structure, and loving authority figures. It’s not always reflected through school shootings, stabbings on behalf of Slenderman, or torturing animals in YouTube videos, either. Those...
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The Beginning of Things
For my entire life, I’ve struggled to live in the moment. On my first day of kindergarten, I was disappointed, because I didn’t have a desk like the big kids. I couldn’t take my lunch to school. I was...
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I’m ready for children.
At 21 years old, I was in the midst of the lowest point in my life. While my college classmates were planning their futures, I was struggling to get through the day. While they were attending concerts...
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I am beginning to HATE going to the movie theater.
When Jake and I met, I was living in Shetland, a suburb of the Metro, where I substitute taught nearly every day, before commuting to my half time librarian job in the city. Jake, an oil man, lived...
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The State Fair: A Family AfFAIR?
Y’all, it is my favorite time of year: the beginning of the last third. Nearly everything good about the year is still ahead of us, with only my birthday in the rear view mirror. I still have the...
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