About

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.