by MissNookie | Jul 20, 2020 | Personal
CW: How I have learned more about racism through my experience of language as a white child and as a woman. — When I was young, my summers were spent with my grandmother, who spent her summers traveling the US, the world, and a few weeks every year in South...
by MissNookie | Jul 8, 2020 | Personal
LOL! You probably know this by now, right? Or, maybe you’re just meeting me. Well, I think a bit differently than most people. I always have. For a good portion of my life, that set me apart and made me feel alone. Until I learned “how to human” as I...
by MissNookie | Jun 8, 2020 | Personal
No one can be 100% right. Not me, not you, not anyone. It’s pretty dang easy to be wrong, though. Super easy. Which is frustrating. It’s easy to be wrong, it takes constant effort to be as right as possible in any given situation, and we’ll still...
by MissNookie | Apr 6, 2020 | Personal
So today, as this prompt pops up on my calendar, I’m brought to mind my own missteps over the past year, and how just being me contributed to others’ unhealthy patterns of behavior. Where I was offering my friendship and advice, when what they wanted...
by MissNookie | Feb 5, 2020 | Personal, Podcasts
This writing is now available as a podcast episode! A conversation I had this morning. The genius (not his real name) Has anyone mentioned… …you’re ducking awesome? Me Quack! The genius What’s new? Me Nothing, really. Just loving life, working a lot,...
by MissNookie | Dec 14, 2019 | Personal
This writing is now available as a podcast episode! I said a few days ago in a writing, “Your experience is pretty much what you make of it, when it comes to women.” Let me clarify. I said what I said because I was replying to a man specifically speaking to the...
