I am not pretty. At least, that’s not what I want to be known for. My dad recently sat down to tell me not to fall into “pretty girl syndrome”. They’re the ones that want to get by on looks alone. It’s a sense of entitlement they believe they deserve because they were born with [...]
Between hula hooping and my natural klutzy sensibility I’ve been getting a lot of black and blue marks all over my body. It’s not pretty and it’s definitely not how I like to present myself. While I’ve been rubbing copious amounts of arnica gel to break up the bruises, it tends to look worse before [...]
We didn’t have an actual date planned. I stopped trying to nail down a specific date and time after plans fell through twice and he never rescheduled properly. I was sincerely losing faith (and patience) with him, so when he text’d me about getting together in San Francisco that same night, I had mixed feelings. [...]
