February 2012
1 post
“If you had to give one piece of advice to people in their twenties, what would...”
– Dear Sugar (via agoldfishnamedgeorge)
Dear Sugar’s coming out party is tonight. The jig is up!
October 2011
1 post
So let us dismantle your mania. →
If you have never ventured into the realm of Dear Sugar on the Rumpus, you probably should. Before you do though, prepare yourself a glass of wine and a box of tissues. This stuff is no joke.
August 2011
2 posts
On Homelessness
On the range of really pathetic days I have had since coming to the city, this one is somewhere near the top of the list. It’s 3pm and I have literally done nothing of substance yet…and I was awake at 8am. That’s 7 hours of nothingness that I just accomplished. To top it off, I finally left the apartment and I am sitting at…wait for it…STARBUCKS. The place I loathe (except for their generous...
What We Have Going For Us- The Hairpin →
Today I will make a list with boxes beside each item, instead of bullets.
On Quitting My Job →
“The thing is, I’m not special. I’m timid, I’m of average intelligence, and I have trouble controlling my bitchface. I’m not more resilient or hireable than anyone else. I just knew that it was either work harder and save some money, or remain miserable for an indeterminable period of time.”
I have to say, I don’t have the bitchface problem most days but that’s pretty...
July 2011
4 posts
How to be a big kid
I landed an interview! Woot woot! First interview in the city! I got my (brand new) big kid business suit out, ironed everything with a miniature iron using a kitchen chair for a ironing board (only one big kid step at a time, people) and studied up on my youth development. I was ready to go. Showered, makeuped, hair done-ed and my phone rang… the interview has been rescheduled for next week...
June 2011
2 posts
“My experience tells me there is something else going on behind this trend,...”
– Melanie Notkin: It’s Time to Stop Calling Career Women Without Children “Delayers” (via huffingtonpost)
Knee Deep
Here I am, knee deep in chicken poo and I have no idea how to begin the story of how I got here, or why I am here at all. Nevertheless, here I am on a farm in Hurley, New York, busy wading through chicken shit, making friends with the spiders that terrify me, living in an old trailer and running from bees that burrow into my hair.
If only I knew how I got here.
The extraordinarily vague...
It's not about you →
“The purpose of life is not to find yourself, but to lose yourself.”
May 2011
6 posts
A Literary Sin: On Giving Away Books →
I feel as though this woman saw into my soul and then wrote about it. We’re kindred spirits, obviously.
In going through my things, its the books I find hardest the part with. I pack them away in boxes, whispering to them, “I promise I will be back for you and maybe one day, we will have a home of our own where you can live a good life on a shelf, and I will read you now and...
It's True What They Say
20-Somethings are totally selfish.
Fuck it. People are totally selfish.
I have spent the last couple months totally engrossed in myself. Not in the good, introspective way either, mostly just the anxious, stressed out way. I haven’t really done much of anything besides being anxious, stressed out and working. Let me tell you something: work+stress+anxiety does not = happy MG. Shocking, I...
April 2011
5 posts
Things you should care about... →
I am seriously digging on Thought Catalog these days.
Watchallthatisawesome:
The most INSPIRING talk on food EVER… and by an 11 year old.
“Think local, choose organic, know your farmer, know your food….”
Loop! →
The amazing Lauren’s first ever Loop newsletter! Lauren knows just about the most interesting cast of characters I have ever met, so I have no doubt these stories will be funny, surprising, strange and heartbreaking each and every week. Sign up! There is no way you will be disappointed!!
“At one of my recent talks someone stood up during the Q and A and announced that...”
– Derrick Jensen, Beyond Hope (2006) (via villagevoice)
March 2011
11 posts
Dear Mr. Regnerus
I would like to take this opportunity to respond to your opinion column in the Washington Post titled Say Yes. What are You Waiting For?. I know It was published a couple of years ago and all, but in coming across it tonight, I found myself cross-eyed with confusion. I thought maybe I would clear some things up for you.
(I’ll warn you, this first point I am going to make might be a bit...
Mark Regnerus' take on why I should marry young. →
I think I'll wait.
I come from a rather daunting line of marriages. My parents have known one another since they were kids, having grown up across the street from each other. My eldest brother and his wife began dating when they were adolescents, and then married right out of college. Then my other brother went crazy and waited until he was a whopping 28 years old until he married…but as it turns out he knew...
Marriage is dead. →
“One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree....”
– Lewis Carroll
Choose your own adventure: International Women's...
Chances are, if it weren’t for facebook status updates this day would have gone unnoticed in your life. The women’s movement is over, isn’t it? I know for a fact that you have better things to be doing with your $54 Victoria’s Secret Bombshell bra than burn it…and feminist, isn’t that just another word for lesbian?
Get real, ladies. Little do you know,...
More College Graduates Take Public Service Jobs →
Another example of how our lazy, spoiled and self-obsessed generation is changing how things get done…
February 2011
9 posts
Homemade Pickles
Unwittingly got myself in quite the pickle this week.
In my noble quest for that high-paying, good-doing job have been recreationally applying for jobs in New York City. The truth is that I have every intention of moving to NYC once my season at the homeless shelter is over at the end of April but before then, I am simply unprepared to make those transitions.
On Tuesday, between a rousing...
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than...”
– Anaïs Nin
An Email to Our Parents « Thought Catalog →
No, but really.
That little flame that lights a fire under your...
I’ve been wallowing in the black pit of my twenties a bit lately, frightened by those silly things in life we call uncertainty and doubt.
And I am sick of the winter. So that certainly doesn’t help things.
You’d think I’d be used to it by now, the uncertainty and constant transition but I’m not. Still, each time I face a transition I get fraught with fear, imagining each and every one of the...
WatchNow THAT’S a 20-Something who I am proud to say is my friend.
Home
Today I would like to talk about a place. This place is a mythical place. They sing songs, make movies and write poems about it. We dream about it when we’re not there and longing for it has even been known to cause illness…
The place I am speaking of, of course, is called “home.” More specifically, your parent’s home. The place you grew up. Even more specifically,...
January 2011
4 posts
A starting point.
If I were to write a personal ad it would probably look something like this:
25 year old woman with a love of good beer, conversational sarcasm and NPR in search of someone who will listen to the rantings of her increasingly crazy ideas while she tries to navigate her way through the treacherous terrain of her 20s…or maybe just her life.
That pretty well sums it up, actually.
After...
NYTimes Mag: What Is It About 20-Somethings? →
I dare you to try and read it in one sitting.
The Question Remains...
What is it about 20-Somethings?
The NYTimes asked it back in August 2010. Subtitled, “Why are so many people in the 20’s taking so long to grow up?” As I sat reading in my childhood bedroom after getting home from my less-than-full-time job I thought, “Ouch. Way to take the low-blow, NYT.”
It turns out the article made plenty of excuses for me as to why I am in my...
20 What?
20-somethings? 20-everythings? 20-who-cares is more like it. Right?
But we can’t seem to drop it. Its all about the 20-somethings. They’re moving back in with their parents in real life and on TV. They’re entering the workforce (or at least trying) with their annoying idealism and social networking savvy. They’re even taking up some 17 printed pages in the NY Times...