A field guide to growing up without growing apart
In my mind there are three things that make an adult, and as of one week ago I officially have leveled up to all three. First, paying for your own health insurance. Nothing says welcome to the real world, sucker, like a monthly bill for […]
Last week I took a pregnancy test for the first time in my life. I’ll spare you the suspense—it was negative, as I suspected it would be. But in the past three months since I stopped taking the pill, my heart has become more and […]
Have you guys been watching The Bachelor this season? Ben isn’t the most interesting of men, but he’s tall, kind, and young, which make for a winning combination if you ask me. In college we used to gather together with junk food and craft projects […]
The condition of the month this month features another millennial figure, the legendary singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. Born in 1989, Taylor has been growing up alongside us. Like the authors of the Twenty-Something Condition she has had to weather the transition from early twenties to mid-twenties, and all […]
So…I’ve officially taken my last birth control pill for a while, presumably until after I give birth to my first child! My husband and I have been mulling over the idea of starting a family for a while now, but it basically took all of […]
Saying yes isn’t always easy. But I think it is worth it. We had much needed snow storm on Monday, bringing about two feet of snow to northern Utah. In years past we would have had feet of snow by this time of year, but […]
The last thing I like to do is go to large parties where I don’t know many people. Another thing I dislike is encountering people with whom I’ve had an embarrassing interaction in the past. But those two things are precisely what is happening this […]
I’ve never wanted to live alone. To me living alone has always seemed like a bad idea. I don’t want to be lonely or lazy, have high expenses or tons of housework. I don’t want to have to call people to hangout with all the […]
Recently one of my high school basketball teammates posted a photo of the team from our senior year, 2007, with a nostalgic caption about how much she missed “the best team/friends ever” and all the great times we had back then. I clicked “like” on […]
Guys- my mom likes Donald Trump. I don’t mean that she is crazy about him or thinks he is the best thing since sliced bread, but she likes him, respects him, and would vote for him for president. To me, Donald Trump appears obtuse and […]
For this month’s COTM I’ve asked my fellow princesses how they feel about the words YES and NO. Which one do we say more of and how has that changed over our lifetime? This is a fundamental question I’ve thought a lot about in the […]
I love learning about people’s quirks. Everyone has a million little things that make them unique. So I thought we would explore that a little further this month. I asked the princesses to talk about a unique passion that they have. What something that we […]