Heya, friend. I identified strongly with your inner monologue, if not from the same cause. I'm peri menopausal. I hope it brings you a bit of comfort to hear that many other women are having the same thoughts and feelings.

If I can share what's helped me: I went back to a strategy I learned in my adolescent years... Sometimes confidence breeds confidence. I do my best to practice it until it becomes internalized and "exuded."

As you move through your journey, know some old lady in Baltimore is rooting for you.

Good questions! I think it was short by today's YA standards - - maybe 200 pages. Definitely not a collection, just a short novel. It was more a historical fiction.

You're kind. It turns out I'm looking for suspender clips.

I can't see my picture... Did I do this wrong?

"It's torture, and I helped!"

Friend, where were you in June?!?!

Cool stuff, though. Now when I switch things up I have a tool!

That's the game of bobbin chicken. Risky, but oh, the HIGH you'll get when you win.

Has the nonprofit applied for the Google Ad grant? Worth looking into it, if not.

What's up with that? I can't see any of the pictures hosted here.

Don't talk about my dad like that.

Green is not a creative color.

This is wholesome in the weirdest way.