Merci Dercqu

My waiter left both the table and me in shock. Granted, before we left the house to head on over to the ramen bar, I told my husband I felt a little matrony. I was wearing a midi, short-sleeve orange, patchwork dress, oval brown sunglasses, a gold chained belt to accentuate my waist and disguise my fat as voluptuous curves and a bob, curled under—very Anna Wintouresque. It’s the kind of outfit…

I guess this is progress. What a weird day this has been. New Years. The first day of 2025. The year my husband and I will be celebrating our seventh wedding anniversary, and a total of 11 years together. The year where I’ll greet the eighth anniversary of my mother’s death and the third anniversary of my dad’s. It’s the year I’d like to finally get pregnant and, most importantly, carry that…

Stand out from the competition!

The other night, I sat on the couch with my husband feeling helpless. Three years ago, I was hustling! I was working a full-time job, spending all my lunch breaks hunkered down in my car writing a trending article for Elite Daily.After work, I’d come home, clean the house for an hour, start dinner, do homework and spend the rest of the night – 4 or 5 hours – working on my internship and later…

Today marks one week out until the second anniversary of your death.

I’m trying to place my life that week out; trying to remember if there were warning signs that death was imminent — but all I remember was us casually talking like normal. I’d share with you my weekend plans, and how I’d just spent all of Saturday hopping wineries with my group of girlfriends. I’d share with you the painting I’d…

8 Reasons Why You’ll Love In-N-Out Burger

If you live near Philadelphia, you’re too consumed with trying to hunt down the world’s greatest cheesesteak. Ironically, the world’s greatest Philadelphia cheesesteak can be found at Romano’s Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant located in Essington, PA. PHL17s Weekend Philler did an incredible segment on the shop where they serve up a slew of tasty and amazing stromboli. The Philly Cheese Steak…

Check Out My Latest Articles on Unwritten

As of last week, I’ve had my debut article featured on Unwritten. I will be having articles published on Unwritten’s website on a weekly basis, with one posting tomorrow on Halloween!

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7 Things You Should Absolutely Avoid In A Job Interview

Why It’s Harder To Maintain Friendships The Older You Get

How My Husband Reacted to My Negative Pregnancy Test

We haven’t been trying to get pregnant for very long.

Even saying that sentence: I’m trying to get pregnant, sends me into a field of emotions. I’ve waited for this moment.

Yesterday morning, around 10 o’clock, I texted my husband to say that I was spotting. Women – we know our cycles.It’s why I knew I’d have my period for the first week of our tropical honeymoon. Our bodies sometimes operate…

My Mom is Still Attached to My Wedding and I’m Broken About It

I’ve been my own worst enemy throughout this wedding process ordeal. 

Not too long ago, my best friend came to me in the heat of the moment and said, “You’re making this harder than it has to be.”

At the time, I was furious. Why would I be making this harder than it has to be? In all actuality, how is any of this my fault? I became so distant from my friends, my family, recoiling into myself like…

Speaking Candidly About My Wedding

Since I’ve lost my mother, there’s been one thing that’s been difficult to vocalize: I don’t want to get married without my mom.

If I could just sign a marriage certificate while sitting on my olive green couch eating a steaming hot pizza from Domino’s and consider myself a wife, I’d opt for that any day of the week. People think that because I don’t want to get married that it means I don’t want

Why Saturdays Are the Worst

Every Saturday morning is met with an irrevocably loud silence. I’ve always been amused by the way people often describe silence as deafening because it’s ultimately the biggest contradiction, we as a society, make. We attribute these emotions and abstract concepts to simple feelings because silence, can actually be one of the most destructive and overwhelming forces out there. The reason why is…

Another Laborless Labor Day Weekend

I go into Friday with a long, laundry-list of items on my checklist. Most of them center around chores. I often crave the ability to wake up on a Sunday morning, sit outside and drink my coffee with the whole day sprawled out before me, ready to be enjoyed. I daydream about smelling the roses but I’m too busy smelling the dank, leftover Chinese food spoiling in my fridge from the week before.

I…

The Reality of What It’s Like to Lose Your Mom

There’s something to be said about the abstract side of grief. I was reading a book this morning called Mistaken Identity. It’s a story about two families from Indiana whose daughters’ identity were swapped, thus forcing one family to bury who they believed to be their daughter, while their actual child lay comatose, in the warm and loving care of another family.

The story in of itself is…

Things You Shouldn’t Say to a Motherless Bride

I often feel like those around me hate me. I don’t live up to this “traditional bridal” role, and it often makes me feel worse on top of how shitty I already feel.

When my mom was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer at the age of 55 in 2011, it never occurred to me that she wouldn’t be around to watch me walk down the aisle. While I feared losing her, I was wholly ignorant of the concept of…

I Have Anxiety About my Bridal Fitting Tonight

I have my first bridal fitting tonight and I’m pretty anxious. For the past year, anytime it came to doing things for the wedding, I’ve politely skirted around the issue. When my future mother-in-law would ask, “When are we going to look at bridal gowns together?” I’d kindly smile, say, “soon” and avoid the subject until it was inevitably brought back up to me thus perpetuating a cycle of…

We Planned to Make a Baby Tonight, But Life Had Other Plans

Today was going to be the day John and I tried to conceive.

For as far back as I can remember, I had always been eager to become a mom. More specifically, I always wanted to get pregnant. I remember being five years old and shoving shirts underneath my pajamas so I could pretend I was older, in labor, and then finally holding my small Thumbelina doll with wideset eyes and pouty lips that my…

What Do You Want to Write About?

Do you want to become a successful blogger?

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What do you want to write about?

It’s a simple question with a complex answer.

Often, whenever a writer sits down to write they have a list of topics they need to discuss. Maybe it’s movies or politics.Pe…