photo by Leslee Mitchell.
Where did the blog's name originate? Take a trip to the blog's very first post and find out.
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Welcome back!
I'm Mary Catherine, the creator of this blog and all its content. As a lifelong writer and blogger of 3 years, I have a wide range of interests - from social justice and spirituality to motherhood to trashy reality television. In a moment of introspection (and a futile attempt to make this blog "about" just one thing), I realized - if I care about all these things, chances are, you do, too.
A 29-year-old Southern girl, I grew up in Alabama, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina with my husband, Jordan, and our labradoodle, Tom Hanks. We welcomed our precious son, Mac, on December 15, 2017.
I graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in English, joined Teach For America in 2011, and was employed for four years in the world of non-profit educational equity. In 2016, I chose to leave the world of full-time employment to pour some energy into figuring out what I could do that best feeds my creative and people-loving soul. This is a start. About a year later, this went viral.
Here you'll find a huge variety of posts about pop culture, lifestyle, home decorating, bad TV, being a mom, politics, humor, and life in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina.
Things I love:
- My very close-knit family and our very close-knit friends
- MY DOG
- The United Methodist Church
- Potato products, starches, and carbs, pretty much indiscriminately
- Watching my favorite movies over and over again
- My buddy Mac
- Funny and smart women (and people, generally, but especially women)
- Ice cream
- Exercising and not exercising, depending on what day you ask me
- The Office
- The first bite of something I really really wanted to eat
- Beautiful clothes
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Good manners
- Singing, writing, and acting foolish
- Social media
- Cooking and baking, and experimenting with both
- Trying to empathize when I don't agree
- My husband, and how he never gets upset when I (constantly) accidentally physically hurt him
Things I do not love:
- The smell broccoli and onions leave in the house hours after you've cooked them
- People smacking their gum
- Ads or articles about animal abuse
- Social media (double edged sword)
- Constantly breaking things/accidentally hurting myself/being a klutz
- When guys shave their beard along their jawline
- The sinking realization that I just said something dumb
- Folks who don't care to try and walk in someone else's shoes
- How long it's taking for all children to have access to great education
- Heavy meats, like steak
- The feeling you get when you've watched way too much Netflix and kind of hate yourself
Take a look around. Stay awhile.