I was updating the digital storage for my pictures from my time as a sorority girl—ten-plus years ago—and the reason I didn’t relate to the Bama Rush girls became clear: Greek life at my college was weird.
Read MoreEvery time I open TikTok, interspersed between my cat videos and “easy” vegan recipes and corporate funnies, there’s a woman doing her skincare routine. Or her hair. Or her makeup. And she likely just took an “everything shower.”
And it makes me very tired.
Read MoreThere is a dark side of living and learning, and that is that you have to accumulate knowledge of things that either bore you to death or just bum you the fuck out.
Here are some of the things I have learned that I wish I hadn’t.
Read MoreThis morning, I pulled the Eight of Wands.
Eight: Mastery. Correspondence with Strength (the eighth card of the Major Arcana). Wands: Creativity. Energy.
As good of vibes as one could hope for when sitting down to write.
Read MoreMy parents found a sealed envelope with my handwriting that said:
To Be Opened By Hannah Bauer ONLY on 01/22/2021
I figured three years late was better than never. (In hindsight, I prefer never.)
Read More2024 is the year of experiments. Because I said so.
Read MoreI run, and I think about being murdered.
Read MoreI signed up for the race in December 2019 and promptly began training. But like everyone else, I had no idea what 2020 would hold.
Read MoreThere are three types of people right now:
White supremacist insurrectionists trying to violently disrupt our democratic process.
People who are horrified by the white supremacist insurrectionists trying to violently disrupt our democratic process.
People who are upset about the “toxic nature of politics” and "the “end of civility.”
That third group of people is entirely complicit in the rise of fascism in the United States.
Read MoreI was in second grade when Santa brought my little brother and I the best present any kids could wish for: living creatures.
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