TW: racism, derogatory language I am truly, honestly petrified to write this. I left Braintree to move to Washington, DC in August of 2015. I had no job, no friends, no sense of “social status.” It was a clean slate. It was then I started to think really introspectively about myself -- why I always [...]
I was on top of him in bed — naked and hungover. You gunna blog about me? he snorted. I rolled over back onto my side. No, shut up. I had not intention of blogging about him. There wasn’t really a story there. We were drunk, we had sex, he asked if I’d blog about [...]
I knew I wanted to make the hike up Monserrate. I hardly planned anything on this trip, but I knew I wanted to do that. It was on my very, very short list of "must-dos." I didn't know when exactly, but I knew it would be done on my two-week Colombian adventure...eventually. I woke up [...]
"I was ~literally~ a different person in Colombia. There's Colombian Beth and there's American Beth." When I told my parents I was going to Colombia alone, it was kind of like *ummmm but but WHY?!* My mom is very open-minded when it comes to travel -- she was in the Peace Corps for two years [...]
I had strum up this idea 5 vodka sodas deep a night at the bar about a week after Thanksgiving. Men are cancelled. I had been "breadcrumbed" by a guy who had been chasing me for about a year, then got a fiancé, broke up with said fiancé, took me on a date where we [...]
Confession: I'm really bad at chilling the fuck out. When I'm not worried about work, school, guys, money, my chronic illness or how my body looks in the mirror, I find something else to worry about. I can't remember exactly when my anxiety started, but I can't remember a time where I didn't have anxiety. [...]
TRIGGER WARNING: sexual assault, rape. Hey gorgeous, can I take you out to lunch? Damn those legs. My headphones suddenly becomes a mental shield. I know you heard me. His presence is so close. The cigarette smoke fills my nostrils. Hey let me -- "Can you just fuck off? I'm not interested, leave [...]
I wasn't going to write a blog post today. I wanted to avoid the cliché of being the single gal with a dating blog writing a post on Valentine's Day. But, the Universe suggested otherwise. I was on my morning walk with Kevin and I passed by a guy who I slept with a few [...]
Let's take one more shot and go back to your place. My half-eaten ramen bowl sat in front of me with a cocktail glass half full of a crushed lime and watered down Tito's. Two more tequila shots please! Rail's fine. Rail tequila? I'm equally grossed out as I am offended. He closes out his [...]
Are you going to talk me afterwards if we have sex? I felt his breath on my neck, his naked skin against mine. Of course, I just can't stay the night. That answer was good enough for me, even thought it really wasn't. The door shuts behind him after he leaves my dorm. I wait [...]
