Love, Marriage & Other Bad Ideas
Sometimes Second Chances Are Only for the Lessons You Still Need to Learn
Sometimes your intuition whispers. Mine apparently had to start screaming: STOP BEING FUCKING DUMB.
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LET'S talk about it.
Marriage. Divorce. Motherhood. Grief. Trauma. Money. Starting over. Bad decisions. Small-town shit. And all the messy parts of life we usually clean up before telling anyone about them.
No cleaning it up for company here.
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Three stories. Three different sides of what this is going to be: raw, unfinished, funny when it can be, and useful when it needs to be.
Can We Be Honest?
Starting Over Isn't Inspirational When You're Actually Doing It
Maybe starting over again and again is not failure. Maybe that is how you eventually design a life that actually feels like yours.
Read the story →What the Actual Fuck
I Don't Think I'm Cut Out for Small-Town Life
I moved from Massachusetts to rural Georgia and apparently there was an entire set of unwritten rules. Nobody gave me the handbook.
Read the story →Pick your poison.
Life does not happen in neat categories, but we had to put the damn menu somewhere.
Pick your poison
Love, Marriage & Other Bad Ideas
Marriage, divorce, dating, sex, breakups, second chances, co-parenting, and decisions that seemed reasonable at the time.
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Motherhood: Uncut
The love, guilt, exhaustion, hilarity, and things mothers apparently are not supposed to admit.
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The Shit That Hurts
Death, loss, grief, trauma, missing people, and the things that do not wrap themselves up neatly.
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Surviving
Abuse, leaving, going back, rebuilding, safety, and what happens after everybody thinks the hard part is over.
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Broke & Starting Over
Money, housing, jobs, pride, asking for help, losing shit, rebuilding shit, trying again.
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The System
Courts, social services, government, advocacy, the people who help, and what happens when the systems do not.
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Small-Town Shit
Community, culture, politics, rumors, family names, unwritten rules, and life where everybody knows everybody.
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What the Actual Fuck
Some stories do not need a category. Sometimes life just needs its own drawer.
Explore →Our regular bullshit.
Recurring series for the things that deserve their own label.
Can We Be Honest?
The things everybody thinks and nobody wants to admit.
Nobody Tells You This
The stuff that would have been nice to know before learning it the hard way.
I Fucked This Up.
Because sometimes the call is, in fact, coming from inside the house.
Enough about me.
What's your story?
You do not have to be a writer. You can use your name, your first name, or stay anonymous. Maybe somebody needs to read the thing you are scared to admit and realize: holy shit, me too.
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