You Are More Than A Woman
You are legs, voices, attitudes of those who came before you and of the babies you will one day bear.
If I Could Feel Your Touch Again
I run my fingertips
over the soft skin
between my ribs
and hip. The divot,
the place where your hands
touched.
I Love Jesus, But Not Always Those Who Follow Him
A woman on the corner stood on a small wooden box. Her hair was pulled back and she held a megaphone to her lips, screaming, ‘You should be ashamed of yourselves. Look at you! Look at what you’re wearing. You’re all going to Hell. ALL OF YOU!”
I Am Afraid Of Words
Words are terrifying because they can both create and destroy. Because I cling so desperately to them.
I Am A Woman
I am a woman
but I will not flit between
delicate and empowered.
I will not grace the vase
on your bedside table.
9 Struggles Only Those Of Us Crazy Enough To Run For Fun Can Understand
Having to explain, for the 20802375th time, that Yes, I actually enjoy this.
A Beautiful Life Lesson From My College Professor
“A good story is a worm-stick,” my professor says.
7 Truths My High School Students Taught Me About Real Love
It should make you glow. It should make you smile. It should make you doodle hearts in the corners of your term papers or carve initials into the side of your desk.
To My BGFFS (Best Guy Friends Forever)
Thank you for those full-body, lift-me-in-the-air type of hugs that changed my entire day around, for always wiping my tears (sloppily, but in the kindest way you could).
18 Pictures of Disney In Today’s World That Will Definitely Make You Shudder
Not a beauty anymore.