hey. i’m on a self-imposed mental health vacation. i’ll still have a featured blogger this saturday, but i won’t be back till next week. love to you all, alexis — Alexis

today’s guest post is by micheline, aka michie (me-shee) from flyrish foibles. i didn’t know what the hell a flyrish was either when we first “met” a few months ago, so i read her about page. “flyrish” is the way micheline describes herself: she is filipina and irish and a total fly girl (if you [...]

tonight i got an email asking me what happened to olivia. for those of you who don’t know who olivia is, she is a friend who i wrote about once a week for about eleven weeks. she’d been through a lot in her life, and needed some so-called peer review to help her sort through [...]

my brain has officially melted. the timing was totally coincidental, but my last few posts happened to be about some of the biggest moral issues i’ll ever face in my life. it’s been an emotional past couple of weeks as i dealt with dissension and sometimes mean-spirited comments and tweets, but i did my best [...]