(Originally posted: 9/30/17)

Ready to escape the world for a bit with some Staunchly Picks? Here are five things I love and I think you might love too. Although are any of us even capable of love anymore? That's a q for a different day. 

(Originally posted: 9/22/17) 

You guys I don’t even know. Hollywood loves Sean Spicer. Earth is violently rejecting us. Betsy DeVos thinks men are the real victims of campus rape. Juggalos are marching. 30 Rock is leaving Netflix (note to Netflix: you can remove literally every show I care about from your streaming service, I’m still not going to watch The Ranch). Our HHS secretary thinks he’s J.Lo. The Elton John Doctrine is the new Truman Doctrine. And I’m falling deeply, madly in love with Jimmy Kimmel.

(Originally posted: 9/8/17)

How was your week? I spent mine reading a lot of really good detective fiction, listening to “At the Ballet” from A Chorus Line for an essay on unhappy childhoods, and reintroducing an array of rich, plummy fall lip shades into my make-up routine (despite an average heat index of 95 degrees).

(Originally posted: 9/1/17)

Today is the 30th issue of Staunchly and she is getting some preventative Botox to stay fresh & current! JK modern beauty standards are bullshit, all you need to do to stay fresh & current is take showers and have opinions. Anyways, this is really more like a spicy chemical peel (which reminds of my facialist in college who used to give me these deliciously intense lactic acid peels which felt like she was slicing up tiny jalapenos on a cutting board made up of my epidermis and every time she was about to apply the peel she’d warn me: “It’s salsa time!”).

(Originally posted: 8/25/17)

Blame it on the eclipse.

(Originally posted: 8/17/17)

We have a very exciting guest post this week (!) but first we need to debrief a little because wow. This week was trash. 

(Originally posted: 8/11/17)

Before we get down and dirty with Staunchly’s August picks, here are some things I’ve been thinking about over the past few weeks, in no particular order…

(Originally posted: 7/28/17)

Staunchly is back from summer vacation! To quote Duchess Kimberly Denise Jones: Been gone for a minute now I’m back with the jump off.

(Originally posted: 6/2/17)

This was a challenging week, for reasons I will no doubt write about once I get my head on straight (everything is copy, right?). In short, an incident Monday night triggered some past trauma and my body had an extreme, involuntary reaction. I’m feeling much better and stronger now, and in control of my mental faculties—except, of course, when I see a particularly chunky corgi on the street or think about how the world is ending thanks to some inbred climate change deniers who think God just has a thing against polar bears.

(Originally posted: 5/21/17)

Today’s Sunday Self-Care Recipe is going to be short and sweet, because I have something very important tonight, something all daughters must at one point do—I have to take my mom to a U2 concert. I happily plan on being the youngest person there and jamming out so hard to that song from Friends. No shade: I love me some Irish dad rock.