Day Six Touching into your grief can be brutal. Even when the pain never leaves you, sometimes purposely turning to face it can be exceptionally hard. So today, let's focus on kindness "For all you have been through, for all you have seen, kindness" "Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind." - Peter… Continue reading Writing my Grief: Day 6 (Because 5 got too weird.)
Author: Papermarked_hope
#SecondhandSeptember: Plus Size Shopping… in Secondhand (need I say more?)
Shopping of any kind as a plus size person can be a nightmare, but secondhand clothes shopping is an actual personal hell for many I think. It certainly has been for me. Racks and racks of poorly sized and actually terrible options at Goodwills and Salvation Army.... hours spent to find next to nothing. Even… Continue reading #SecondhandSeptember: Plus Size Shopping… in Secondhand (need I say more?)
Best of 2020: Books and Music
A second installment of the definitely cliche, end of the year, list making... Books: The Hate U GiveSo You Want to Talk About RaceBridge of Clay The Atlas of Beauty The Minimalist ChristmasRethinkHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (reread)ScytheThunder Head The Toll I didn’t read as much this year as I wish I had… Continue reading Best of 2020: Books and Music
#SecondhandSeptember: High Fashion, Fast Fashion, and Frumpy Fashion… How has Covid Changed the Fashion Industry and How do we Want it to Change?
*this was started in September 2020... I went through a weird time in my life and I never posted or finished it, so I’m doing it now, because I think it’s worth it. Anyone who hasn’t spent ALL of the last 10 months under a rock knows that the world looks very different now then… Continue reading #SecondhandSeptember: High Fashion, Fast Fashion, and Frumpy Fashion… How has Covid Changed the Fashion Industry and How do we Want it to Change?
Best of 2020: Clothes and Housewares
As cliche as this type of post is, it's a lot of fun to go through what has made an certain time period unique and sharing it with the world around you. So without further ado... some favorites for 2020. Clothing I loved: Berks... my new Birkenstocks, a bright orange/tan leather. The first time I… Continue reading Best of 2020: Clothes and Housewares
The Next Three Days
As I’ve had the time and the thoughts to share, diving back into my writing, my goals, and my next year... it’s hard to not also look back at the last year. I try to avoid conventional New Years Resolutions for any one of twenty good reasons... but the changing of the year does bring… Continue reading The Next Three Days
So it’s Christmas, part 3
In all my wishing and planning for this year, I have found lots traditions and things I desperately want to try next year. It started with that Instagram question I put out there into the ether. My best friend suggested an Advent Calendar of some kind to help me count down the days. I started… Continue reading So it’s Christmas, part 3
So it’s Christmas, part 2
This ‘improving Christmas’ has become a bit of a pet project, one that has sparked my desire to write more again. I think this has largely to do with the feeling I can’t quite shake, the feeling that I can’t be the only one experiencing this right now. I’m not particularly religious and while Christmas… Continue reading So it’s Christmas, part 2
So it’s Christmas, part 1
It’s 2020. It’s Christmas. Not unlike our anniversary, our birthdays, or the occasion of buying our first house, this holiday season has felt disjointed, lacking, underwhelming... honestly, I’m having difficulty coming up with any adjectives that sound positive. I think the best I can manage is mediocre. While I’d like to blame this lameness on… Continue reading So it’s Christmas, part 1
Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
*disclosure: This the conclusion to a week long journal project I wrote in June 2020. This was written over two months later on September 3rd . I spent the first week of June 2020 starting a journey to understand and educate myself on racism in America and world wide, to understand my own racism and… Continue reading Activism Actions: From one White Person to Another, Day 81
Coffee & Conundrums 