The Queen of Break-Up Travel
The November rain fell in succulent drops on the ancient, cobblestone streets. I stuck my tongue out to capture a raindrop. But then I remembered I was in Paris. [...]
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The Comfort of Making Things
A few weeks before 9/11, a movie producer taught me to knit at a press junket. I was a marketing executive at Sony and spent my days with people who made things—movies, [...]
Notes from Nanea | Cleanse
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, I’ve been obsessed lately with cleansing and purging. Not with special teas or diets; nothing involving fasting or bodily fluids. I [...]
Sweatpants & Relationships | A Letter to Myself in the Wake of Divorce
Previously Published on http://www.theradicalnotion.com/letter-wake-of-divorce/ I wrote this letter roughly a year after divorcing my son’s father. I was living in a [...]
Sweatpants & Self Care | How to Keep Your Sanity Through Grief Anniversaries
As April rolls into May each year, I begin to feel the waves of major depression. Fuzzy thinking, sleeping all the time or not at all, no appetite versus wanting to eat all [...]
Personal Essays | Burn the Pages & Keep Going
The past teaches us important lessons about where we do and do not want to go, but we also need to let go. [...]
That’s What She Said | The Losses and Gains of Cutting Toxic People
Relationships can be toxic. Regardless of what we want to believe about the people in our lives, simply being in physical or emotional proximity to them can be detrimental to [...]
Personal Essay | The Strength in Weaknesses
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Minnesota is corn. Lots of it. Like, you are literally surrounded by corn. The second thing that comes to mind when I think [...]
That’s What She Said | Is It Better to Be Skinny or Sane?
My struggles with my weight are sure to surprise nobody. I am a 43-year-old mom of two teen boys who can eat whatever they want; in fact, they eat no less than six times a [...]
Meet ACE, My First Abusive Boyfriend
CN: sexual assault, rape abuse One of the hardest experiences in my life has been enduring and getting out of an eight year long, emotionally abusive relationship. It’s an [...]
