I Accidentally Sent a Sexually Explicit Text to My Employer
as a woman, I didn’t know what to do.
It was 3am.
I was driving home from a bonfire with a couple of friends. One friend had been drinking, and so I offered her a ride. She took me up on it. We left around 2:30. She was talkative, and I love her company, so we drove around a little. I circled onto her block around 2:45, then started heading home.
As I approached my own street, I noticed an awkward glow, like a streetlight, except there weren’t any streetlights at the top of my street. I got closer, then turned right onto my block. …
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The subject of exes is complicated.
It seems like everyone has different experiences with their exes. Some are friendly and close while others are distant and aloof. There are some exes who are still in love and other exes who move on easily and date within a month. There are exes who want to be amicable and exes who don’t seem to care if your friendship crashes and burns in the end. Basically, it depends on the person, and the way that the relationship ended.
I’ve realized over time that there are 5 distinct types of exes (at least that I’ve encountered or witnessed). Each of them have different habits and different ways of acting once the breakup is over, and they even have different ways of connecting with you after the fact. Exes are a slippery slope, but sometimes gaining understanding about them is what finally empowers us to heal. And breaking down their patterns can even help us feel less hurt in the end. …
The first time I got a hateful comment on Medium, I was deeply offended.
It was a comment on one of my political articles. An older man had posted a comment mocking me, my career, and my perspective. He quickly shot down my facts and used stinging words and expletives to get his point across. I’d like to be able to say that I took it with a grain of salt, but I didn’t. In fact, I was so speechless that I didn’t know what to do. Should I respond? Should I just leave it? Should I correct him on the various things that he had misinterpreted? …
I’ve never been fat before.
I’ve never had a good relationship with my body (or food, for that matter) so I spent many years thinking I was fat, constantly criticizing my figure, looking in the mirror and hating what I saw. I would see myself in pictures and complain that I looked “disgusting.” But now, years later, I look at those pictures and think, Damn, I was skinny. Why did I hate myself so much?
This year, though, I actually got fat. Like, very overweight. (To be clear, I’m not using “fat” negatively. I feel most comfortable describing my journey this way.) I weigh much more now than I did in March 2020, and I’ve developed stretch marks, flabs, and rolls. I’m guessing the cause is a mix of me sitting at my computer all day, not being able to go to the gym, and emotionally eating. Regardless, I look in the mirror now and I see a serious change. …
“Did you hear that Alicia* changed her pronouns again?” my friend asked me one day in conversation. (*I have changed this person’s name to Alicia to protect their privacy.)
I had heard that Alicia had changed her pronouns again, but I really didn’t have a problem with it, and I didn’t know why my friend did. So I just mumbled back, “Yeah.”
And then my friend said something unthinkable. “I think she’s really just doing it for attention.”
I was left speechless. This friend is incredibly politically correct, fiercely accepting of the LGBTQ community, and staunchly liberal. …
