Category: In My Own Words

These are all my thoughts, opinions, and other things.

In My Own Words, Lifestyle

In Seven Days, I Turn 30 Years Old

RaeAnna

In a week, I turn 30. I'm very much looking forward to it, but a small part of me is dreading it. Society deems women of a certain age unworthy of... everything, and I am now about to be a woman of a certain age. There are so many exciting things about aging, but my existence has always and almost solely been validated for the way I look. Who I am is just a bonus to the way I look for the man I'll one day trap/catch. The world has told me so many things about aging and my existence in the world. I would be lying if I said I hadn't ended up on the kitchen floor in a full on panic attack about aging in society.  

Close up of The Awakening on Galveston Beach.
Books, Fiction, In My Own Words, Lifestyle

Remembering and Rereading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

RaeAnna

The Awakening by Kate Chopin came to me the summer I most desperately needed to find a woman who understood. I was in the midst of a crisis: The crisis of being a woman. I was finding out its darkest meaning in the most horrific ways. Finding one person, however fictional, validated the tragedies I lived and the ones I had yet to experience.

In My Own Words, Lifestyle

COVID Came For Us; We Almost Didn’t Make It

RaeAnna

I have not been open about the way this year started. We were more than careful, but COVID came for us anyways. Dylan was hospitalized for almost three weeks on the other side of the country and spent two weeks on oxygen and another week before he came home. I floundered at home struggling through my own severe case of COVID and the worry that my partner of five years could never walk through our front door again.

Blog + Dog, In My Own Words, Lifestyle

Happy National Puppy Day from A Pack Mom

RaeAnna

Every day is puppy day because I have a pack. It’s a chaotic zoo. A furtacular event. No moment, big or small, goes without the dogs. I attribute it to their being enormous, multitudinous, and very attached to me.

Blog + Dog, In My Own Words, Lifestyle

Happy First Birthday From Your First Human Mama

RaeAnna

A year ago today, thirteen beautiful and unique puppies were born. Tessa went through 38.5 hours of labor and seventeen hours and one minute between the first puppy and the last puppy were born. It was just the beginning of an incredible adventure. Three months later, nine were happy and healthy in their forever homes and four stayed with me. A year later, they are all thriving and celebrating their birthday with their families.