Confession: I never really paid attention to the ingredient labels on cleaning products. If it did the job then that was good enough for me. When my kids were still babies, I switched out a lot of products to “cleaner” versions since they were constantly putting things in their mouth. If your social media feeds…
An Open Response to “Beauty Pageants are Embarassing”
I came across an old article from 2015 titled “Beauty pageants are embarrassing – even if you name the right winner”, written by Jessica Valenti, former feminism columnist at the Guardian. It was shared on the Society of Pageant Women’s Twitter feed. As a pageant girl myself, just the title of the article outraged me….
I Was Bullied…
October is National Bullying Prevention Month. I had a childhood bully. I’ll never forget his name…David. For as early as I can remember, David bullied me all throughout elementary school. During that time, I lived in a very small town in northern Michigan. My elementary school was small, just one class per grade. We were…