THE MOJAVE TERRAVAN. Despite 2024’s shortcomings, it will forever be the year I bought a van and started building it out, all to ultimately head out and spend part of my life on the road. The van has been a consistent source of delight since I bought it at the end of March, and while I’m incredibly behind the self-imposed schedule I set for myself before I’d even found a van, building it out has been one of my greatest adventures.…
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1. THE RETURN OF ELLIE BLACK by Emiko Jean
I read a good amount of thrillers and I’m almost always deeply unimpressed by the “shocking” twists and turns. This book was not a disappointment. It was dark, quick-paced journey that I’d recommend to any lover of thrillers who is anxious for a book that breaks the mold.…
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March gets such a bad rap, y’all. She’s brought us a lot of chaos over the years, including a global pandemic, but she’s my birthday month, and I love her.
March is almost always a banner month for me, and this one was no different. I did a lot of things.…
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1 – MEGABABE’S GREEN DEO
I made the switch to natural deodorant when I was deployed in 2016. I was in Kuwait where daily temperatures liked to hang out in the triple digits, and I figured if natural deodorant could take care of me in that environment, it could easily handle the comparative cool of Virginia.…
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Last week, surrounded by the beauty and magnificence of Zion National Park, I turned 40. It felt like a very big deal and also like nothing at all.
Somewhere in my past, there’s a girl who can’t even fathom making it to 20, much less 40. For that girl, the present was so hard and so painful that it made thinking about the future an impossibility.…
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