we all know the answer, but let’s dive in — The other day, while perusing Reddit for a little love-hate reading, I had the lovely privilege of reading some man’s rant about his vasectomy and how he didn’t receive adequate pain meds. What he wanted were T3s and all he was given was Tylenol or Advil. This was an absolute…

So, you’re getting quite happy at a pub down in Edinburgh, when the club downstairs starts hopping. Downing your whisky sour, you bop your way down the stairs and into the dark, smokey, and dancerific club. You have yourself a real good time and decide to leave. The bloke out…

even if you think you’ll die here. — I never thought I’d make it here, but I have. Just over a full year of breakdowns, rage, postpartum depression, anxiety, stress, so many tears, so many of the ‘I will never sleep again’ and the ‘I will never do anything again’. A full year of ups and downs, smiles…

The best advice you’ll ever get as a parent: take the entire day, and night, to yourself. Whenever grandparents would babysit, I would rush around trying to do everything. I’d clean the house, workout, work on some writing, study a bit of French. In the early days, I’d either sleep…

and it didn’t feel the way I thought it would At the start of the year, my friend and I did something really cool — we published a baby book together. It was fun planning out what the book would look like, getting together to talk about our project at…

Is there room for that type of writing here? — Medium is full of posts on how to make an extreme amount of money just by writing for 30 minutes a day. Promises that, you too, can be sitting on a pile of cash if you just write every single day. Or so goes the folklore. After writing on Medium…

Living with that Mom Belly A woman’s weight. You’d think we’d be over this obsession, this thought that it is more than her worth, that it makes up her worth, and yet… There’s nothing like putting your body through an absolute wringer. Getting pregnant, watching as your belly swells and…

It’s easy to romanticize 4 roommates — When New Girl originally came out, I was looking for a place to live. After not being able to find a roommate for my amazing apartment in an even more amazing location, I set myself up to move in with a girl from work, which didn’t work out — at…