Dear Daughter, As you navigate the choppy waters of womanhood (and damn, those are some high, white-capped swells), please, oh please, hear my voice, my love. Hear it, sweet child. Please don’t shrug me off. Hear it ringing through the din, right through these confounding, life-sorting years; right past your indifference, your boredom with me, […]
To Be Strong Women, Our Fires Must Burn
“You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.” ~ Nikita Gill To be strong women, powerful women, women who stand up for other women, women set ablaze with fierceness and desire, ones who are daring, adventurous, provocative, and bold, we […]
The Day She Decided to Stop Pretending.
“Forget me nots, second thoughts, live in isolation. Heads or tails, fairytales in my mind. Are we we are, are we we are, the waiting, unknown?”~ Green Day, American Idiot She wasn’t taking care of herself. The stress, the commitments, and all the self-doubts were piling up like snowflakes during a winter squall. Her skin was itchy, crawling with micro-bugs […]