shame

  • Should

    If there is a word I would take out of our collective vocabulary, it would be should.  Should is a wish-fulfillment fantasy. He should have treated me better. (Absolutely, and yet he didn’t.)  We shouldn’t have to do this. (Nope, and yet we do.) I shouldn’t have to tell you I don’t like that. (Maybe,…

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  • As Pretty Lynne, I usually write about things when they are going well, or when I’ve got it all figured out. Today is a little bit different.  Most days, I feel great about being a single woman. I am smart and capable and can figure out how to do things I haven’t had to do…

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  • Blocked

    I had a confusing thing happen recently and I wanted to write about it.  An individual responded to a story of mine on Instagram with a note that they clicked on the Reddit link in my profile and were “not sorry. Amazing work.”  We had a very pleasant and superficial exchange about my writing, and…

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