Panic Attacks and Little Debbies
I need to be more transparent. I need to stop glossing it over. I need to stop posting about a life that is edited with filters and lighting. I need to tell more people that [...]
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The Thirty Day Honesty Challenge . . . It’s Not as Easy as You Might Think
What’s so important about honesty? That depends on whom you ask. Some will say the reason to be honest is simply to avoid being labeled a liar, and untrustworthy—it’s [...]
Notes from Nanea | Dear Little Brown Girl
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, I created this space, with the help of many amazing and talented people, with the intention of offering comfort in a chaotic and [...]
Notes from Nanea | The Toxic Myth of Relentless Online Positivity
My dear Sweatpants & Coffee tribe, The truth is that we now live in a hashtag world. We curate our lives with Instagram filters and carefully edited bite-sized blurbs of [...]
That’s What She Said | Dumb Lies You Need to Know During Hard Times
We tell ourselves dumb lies, especially when times are hard. The voices that live in our heads tell us lies about our value, but here is some truth. [...]
Sweatpants & Parenting | How NOT to Lie to Your Children About the Tooth Fairy
The trick to being a good parent is less about being perfect and more about being creative. Being the mom to two 10-year-olds and a 17-year-old means that there have been [...]
Sweatpants & Parenting | Curiouser and Curiouser
By Bronwyn L. Emery My daughter is starting to ask the hard questions, but thanks to the Internet, I think I’m ready for her. You wouldn’t believe some of the great [...]
Personal Essay | Regrowth
By Bronwyn Emery When I was a child, a group of my friends got together and went to my mother and begged her to make me stop telling lies. First, they verified that my cat [...]
12 Beautiful Quotes From Fantasy Authors
There’s a reason that some of our oldest and most important stories start with “Once upon a time . . .” Tucked among the fantastical characters and magical other-worlds [...]
