THE DEAR DIVORCEE

"You're so ass backwards!" Then, my mother snatched the cup from my 13 year old hands and marched to the counter at the fast food chain and, after a moment, ...

As a child, I was celebrated for being a dreamer, encouraged to think big. The sky is the limit, I felt. Something within me seemed to be watching and guidin...

I've blogged on and off for years, dating way back to my grad school days, so when I began blogging about life after divorce, I felt confident I could write ...

In 2016, Glennon Doyle retold a story on Elizabeth Gilbert's podcast Magic Lessons . Doyle had been yearning for a spot to be completely honest, so she respo...

It was Ed Sheeran's song "Cross Me" that allowed me to own an acronym I never thought could ever apply to me--HBIC. Here are the lines from his song that I l...

The first time I heard "All I Want is You" by U2, I was a sophomore in college watching the film Reality Bites (1994), directed by Ben Stiller. And the most ...

In a dream last night, I opened the door to enter my bedroom. The room, though, combusted. Fired air blew me to the floor, and I scrambled to close the door ...

On one recent weekend, I went to lunch with my boss, and we dined at a local wing place, laughing and talking for over two hours. Towards the end of the meal...

I spent too much time believing that I would remain unwanted and unloved as a punishment for divorcing my husband. As penance, I decided to give up hoping fo...