*Trigger Warning: Blood, hospitals, and medical descriptions “Help! Grab a paper towel,” I tell my husband as my hand rushes to my face, feeling hot blood starting to pour out of my nose. “Can you help my wife?” My husband frantically asks the woman at the front...
Everyone knows that mothers don't have time for themselves. What people are just now discovering is that mothers in quarantine somehow bend the principles of mathematics and have even less time for themselves. Every day is the same struggle of trying to work from home,...
I feel bad. I've felt bad for what seems like forever, but really it's been about four months, and after getting very sick recently, I've felt really bad for two weeks. Truthfully, I haven't felt really GOOD in a few years, but let's chalk some...
Look, I hate to brag, but I'm a pretty chill girl. Sure, I'm not very spontaneous when it comes to traveling and I have a Virgo moon that makes me clean up after people uncomfortably too soon and casts a critical eye on things (and...
One of my favorite compliments I've ever received, that probably wasn't intended to be such, is that I have a lot of inertia. If you don't remember your high school physics class, inertia is one of the fundamental principles that establishes the resistance of any physical object to...
A few months ago I published an essay on Refinery29 about my personal journey with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), AKA my potential overshare of an emotional and physical roller coaster without my period for a year and a half....