Why do I let you make me feel like shit? When you get angry or upset with me it’s never a fight. You give me the silent treatment And I’m left trying to figure out what I did to wrong you. I try to understand how this escalated Meanwhile, I know that I can’t ask …
Recently, I started going to this book club with my mother. The book club features a group of older, Mormon women with whom I have nothing in common. Our last book was Circe by Madeline Miller. The main topic of conversation was the book’s comments on aging. Circe admires how humans can age and get …
On my last day and in my last hour of being 18, here are 18 things that I have learned being 18: It is okay to enjoy being around other people, you do not always have to be alone. Building and maintaining friendships is just as important as building a relationship with yourself. Your …
Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere. I used to be Mormon, a good girl, but I have since reformed and have become a bad girl in the Mormon world. I never drank coffee and now I can’t go a day without it. I never uttered a single curse word or said the Lord’s …
There were two different girls in my psychology class that had gotten married over the summer. Here I am having never gone on a date or been kissed I haven’t had a crush in years or been crushed on by anyone I can’t see myself meeting someone in the near or distant future I …
It has become widely acknowledged by most parents that if you have two children of the same gender then there is automatically the label of good one and the bad one. These labels can be broken down even more based on gender stereotypes. Boys: Athletic one and the smart one Girls: Pretty one and the …
When I was a little girl, I really loved Grease. I had the soundtrack and I listened to it non stop, I sang and danced all the time. But there was one song that I never really understood until very recently. “There are worse things I could do” which at its core tells the dilemma …