Why I’m Reluctant to Write About Not Wanting Kids

• July 23, 2012

  The other day a writer pal of mine tweeted ...

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hometown girl

Up-Close Inspiration from Michelle Obama

• July 19, 2012

When I first learned that Michelle Obama was coming to ...

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Feminism is for Lovers

Words With Friends: Communication and friendship are the keys to a healthy marriage

• June 10, 2012

Ten years ago in the newsroom of The Courier-Journal in ...

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Birmingham

What is True Beauty?

• June 9, 2012

What is true beauty? That's the question I was contemplating ...

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books

Summer Reading List – Part 1

• June 5, 2012

As an English teacher I am constantly reading something whether ...

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live like you mean it

My Summer Resolutions

• June 4, 2012

I know that summer doesn’t technically start until June 20, ...

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Letter to My Younger Self

• May 2, 2012

Although this probably breaks some sort of woman rule, I'm ...

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Feminism is for Lovers

Togetherness

• April 9, 2012

Yesterday Edd and I celebrated our sixth anniversary. So much ...

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live like you mean it

An Ode to Poetry (and Carrie Bradshaw)

• April 2, 2012

In the second Sex and the City movie, Carrie Bradshaw (who, in ...

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live like you mean it

31 Before 32

• February 15, 2012

As some of you know, last week I turned 31 ...

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