fashion clothes

Since this is the last edition of TTPMOT for 2013, and I didn't write one last week because I was busy with family and gratitude and holiday stuff, this one will be extra ranty. I hope you are wearing your big kid undies today.Off we go.Keeping People Alive When They Are DeadThere are two major stories in the news right now that involve patients being kept alive through the use of machines when they...

2013 wasn't the worst year, but it was far from the best. Before we flip the calendar over, let's take a journey for a second. Here are some of my favorite things. This list is by no means all inclusive.Pinterest. Seriously. I freaking love this site. If you aren't following me, you should be. I have almost as many male followers as female, which has to mean something. I'm not sure WHAT it means,...

These retrospective posts are hard, you guys, because they make me go back and relive so much of what has happened in the last year. Some good, some awful. I cried and laughed while writing them, I'll do it again re-reading them.The things I do for you people.Sheesh.2013 will go down, for me, as a year I'm glad to see go. It wasn't the worst, but it was far from the best. I could use a little boring...

1. Stop falling for manufactured debates and controversies.Stop allowing one person's opinion to turn the internet into a three week long argument complete with ranting statuses, soapbox proclamations, open letters, comment trolls and snarky replies. For the love of all that is right and just in the world, stop reading comment sections. Stop taking everything so personally. Stop believing that...

On the way here for Christmas, my brother and his family were in an accident.A terrible accident. One that they had no business walking away from. I got the call when I was in a kitchen filled with laughter and lightness, at the house of friend. The look on my face told them all that something was very wrong. I rounded up the kids and said we had to go. We had to go now. Some of my friends...

My Mom and I had a complicated relationship.That sentence may qualify as the understatement of the year.Possibly even the decade.She was a complicated person. I am a complicated person. Though we shared little else in common, we shared that. Over time, all of the things that made us each who we were and are became insurmountable obstacles. When she died just over two months ago now, I hadn't seen...

Squirrel!!!Seriously though, I get distracted easily. I start these challenges, then I forget to finish them. I'm trying to tie up loose ends before the end of the year, and for that you are welcome.Hey...they are a few days left in 2013. ;)Here are the bands and artists from the tail end of the alphabet that I know and love.X - I got nothing. I tried.Weird Al YankovicHe did weird before it was trendy....

In this strange and beautiful online world, I have had occasion to meet some truly amazing people. This writer today, one of them. She needed to let these words out of her head, and she needed a safe place to do it. She asked if I would be willing to share her story here. With my deepest love and respect, a tale of what it's like to live with and love someone with mental illness, with physical...

At some point last night, I put my phone down and sighed. It seemed like everyone on the internet was completely and totally preoccupied with the controversy over the words spoken by Phil Robertson and the resulting moves A&E made in their wake. I would like to discuss the First Amendment issue here since that seems to be the most talked about online. Essentially, there isn't one. Really....

This prompt....The last time I responded to this one, I copped out. Completely. Told a story about when I asked one of my college professors for a letter of recommendation instead. All true, but still a cop-out.Day 30 ~ Write a letter to yourself, including everything you love about yourselfGah. Here we go...Dear Me,I know you pretty well, and I know that before you actually begin typing anything...

It seems like I have just been shaking my head a lot lately.A lot.Do you ever look around, watch the news, talk to other people and wonder what the hell happened to the world?It's Tuesday, time to be pissed.Claire Davis, Caleb Medley and every other person shot in the head for no good reasonMaybe it's just me. Maybe I'm more sensitive to these shootings because I spent way too much time in a waiting...

This is just proving my hypothesis....that there was no way that any of my answers in this challenge were going to be the same that they were three years ago.This one couldn't be more different if I tried.The first time I responded to this prompt, I talked very abruptly about how I didn't see the need to change anything about myself, that I was pretty fantastic and that I didn't even have time to...

I dread writing Christmas cards for a few reasons. It seems like every year I send out more and receive fewer. It's one of the things that I hang on to, a bit like the rusty and antiquated dinosaur I am.I'm a walking contradiction sometimes. I know this. I write online. I have an entire virtual persona. I blog and admin a page on Facebook and some of my best friends are the people who only reside...