Winter Scales. Stretch Marks. Happy Skin.

January 13, 2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

I live in the frigid white north (AKA, Maine). A mile from the water, so we get all of those “warm” and “lovely” sea breezes. So winter time is particularly joyful. I know, you’re all reading this “from away” saying: But it’s so pretty! Sure it is. But it gets really old after awhile. It […]

I am fearful.

January 10, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I feel that this posting needs to start off with a few things before we get into the “dirt” of it… First, I’m not religious. By any means. For the longest time, just to get my paternal grandfather riled up, I’d say I was “anti organized religion”. Eventually, I just became a “non practicing Catholic”. […]

Transformation Tuesday: Not what you expect.

November 25, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

This is a different kind of Transformation Tuesday post. And in it, weight isn’t going to be discussed. First, because for me, it’s never been about the number on the scale. It’s been about what I see in the mirror, how I feel every day. Even before pregnancy. I also hate that once a woman […]

Leaving Facebook.

November 13, 2014.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’m just a small town girl, which has shown me one thing: I never, ever want to be famous. Ever. I never want to walk down the street, swarmed by fans and have cameras thrust in my face at every turn. I never want to have to struggle to keep my private life private. I […]

Baby Rebel is… well, gonna be a rebel.

October 28, 2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

We found out last Tuesday that Baby Rebel is a boy. And that he is already living up to his, now well loved, nickname. While it’d have been fun to experience life with a mini-me/girl, I realized very quickly, I’m best suited to be raising a boy. Make-up, princesses, actual style? I’d be a hot […]

The Ice Bucket Challenge.

August 18, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Let’s talk the ice bucket challenge. Ice bucket challenge? What’s that? Well, if you’ve been living under a rock or in a cave in the good ole U. S. of A over these past few weeks, this is the ice bucket challenge: If you’re called out to the challenge, you have to either donate $100 […]

Oh, baby!

August 15, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Just when you think you’ve reached the end of the road, you find that that Dead End sign you’ve seen is just a mirage. You actually have more road to go. Not just that, but there’s a fork in it to, taking you to a new, completely unexpected destination. We had just started to really […]

She ran a 5k.

August 4, 2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

I have two sisters. An older and a younger one. Smack dab in the middle I am. For the longest time, my older sister and I were super close (after 12 years of her hating my guts). I even lived with her for seven months of my life back in my 20s. We’re still close, […]

Brantley Gilbert has no legs.

June 17, 2014.Reading time 6 minutes.

This post needs to start with back-story. Why? Because anyone who has followed me here, on Twitter, Instagram or knows me on Facebook knows that while I listen to a pretty broad variety of music genres — my love runs deep and undying, for all things rock, metal (metalcore, ‘alterna’ metal, death metal, etc…), hardcore, […]

Life as I know it… Let’s rephrase that, My Insane Life.

June 7, 2014.Reading time 10 minutes.

Let’s talk about life for a second. I don’t know about anyone else, but mine is always a little insane. We’re talking the kind of insane where you’re stretched super thin and you’re looking at the clock thinking: Why can I not have just ONE more damn hour in the day? Lately, in my little […]