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 32-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. He’s 3 now! And our sweet girl Rosie was born at the height of the first Covid wave in April 2020.

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: deep-dives into subjects that fascinate me, 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.

  • Bravo.

  • Potato products, starches, and carbs, pretty much indiscriminately.

  • Watching my favorite movies over and over again.

  • My buddy Mac (and new baby!).

  • Funny and smart women (and people, generally, but especially women).

  • Ice cream during any season.

  • 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.

  • Acting foolish with abandon.

  • Social media.

  • Cooking and baking, and experimenting with both.

  • Empathetic people.

  • My husband, and how he never gets upset when I (constantly) accidentally physically harm 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.

  • Stumbling across some kind of horrible ad or article featuring a photo of an abused animal - gimme a WARNING, folks!

  • Social media (double edged sword).

  • 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.

  • Bad public education.

  • Most meat - unless you count McDonald’s cheeseburgers. I am many things. No one thing defines me.

  • The feeling you get when you've watched way too much Netflix and kind of hate yourself, but keep watching anyway.

Take a look around. Stay awhile.