To be a woman in a world where sexual assault is at its highest peak of terror in correlation to what society will turn a blind eye to is difficult to absorb. To explain to someone who has never had to worry about walking alone in a darken street, to someone who has never had … Continue reading Enough
I am sure you've read the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost at some point in your life, or if you haven't I strongly suggest you do. As the poem bellows to an end, Frost puts into words, a pivotal point that touches most of our lives. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I … Continue reading The Road Less Traveled
Life; such a funny thing really when you think of it. One word holds millions of variations of meanings. We all think we know what it means until we start to disassemble it and really look at it holistically. And isn't it in those moments that we are tearing it apart, searching for some definitive answer … Continue reading This So Called Life
Vulnerability. Such a dirty little nasty word. For how dare we be real, raw or soft in such a world as today. I spent the better half of my life putting up walls, walls in which were meant to protect me from a life without morals, without truths, without integrity. Somewhere through the course of … Continue reading Free Fall
My head is foggy and everything I thought I knew and understood seems hazy. It’s as though for the first time I've opened my eyes to the sight that was always there, looming, a sight I chose not to see. Why is it that people always see what they want to see? Is it an … Continue reading Don’t get too near for there’s lions; beware.
By the time we are children, we females are presented with the very idea of what kind of life we should strive to attain. What type of ideals and roles will matter most. A twist in your thoughts that will forever be changed. Grow up to be beautiful, dress the role, fall in love, become … Continue reading Worth by a Woman
And no one will ever understand the depths of grief, until one goes through it themselves. No one will ever question the value of life quite like you will the moment you are weighted with the loss of it. Life asked Death, “Why do people love me and hate you?” Death replied, “Because you are … Continue reading Time Tells a Tale
Modern day dating, it's a joke right? Or could it at least come with a hand guide? Some kind of identifier so you don't have to use your heart as a punching bag for this process of elimination. Seriously, what the hell? Have you tried dating these days? Well have you? For your sake I … Continue reading Dating; at it’s worst
"I feel like she just goes to pose! She is THAT girl that goes places just to post." It might not seem like that harsh of a statement at first stance. But what if I told you that statement came from someone I thought I was friends with? What if I told you it was whispered … Continue reading Beautifully Broken
We all know that look. That dirty, gut wrenching, look. The one that defines the very coin, if looks could kill. Those hateful glares, the tension in the body language, the hatred oozing from within. Yeah, you know which one I am talking about. Well, I think it's safe to say every woman has seen … Continue reading A Woman Like You
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