The Pioneer Woman of Vodka | Carri Ellen Brown
Parenting, Vodka, and Life in General
I don't remember where we were headed when he asked me that question. It was a question I'd heard so many times before. A question I loathed. A question that immediately put me in defense mode and caused me to throw up the walls I'd been trying so hard to break down. But it sounded different coming from him. "Carri, why don't you want kids?" He nervously looked at me from the passenger … [Read more...]
Today I'm linking up with Mama Kat for her Writer's Workshop. The prompt: This year in blog posts…choose a favorite post from each month of 2011 and share. *** January In January, I wrote two of my favorite posts: Monster was written after a particularly bad anxiety attack. In it, I finally opened up about my anxiety disorder and postpartum depression and began to talk about my mom's … [Read more...]
I was having a serious Twitter discussion with a friend (who's more like a brother) over Thanksgiving dinner. He can't, for the life of him, understand the awesomeness that is The Twitter. He can't figure out what the point of it is, and "By the way, what the hell does pound sign and then a word mean?" "That's called a 'hash tag'." I told him. "No it's not. That's a pound … [Read more...]
Dear 18 year old me: Listen up, sister. It’s your 33 year old self talking and you had better pay attention. You’re deep in your depression and self loathing and you think life will never turn around. You think you’re fat. You think you’re ugly. You think that nobody cares about you. Well guess what? You’re wrong. *** Head over to Chosen Chaos to read the frank letter … [Read more...]
Mom of a monster. Wife of a hot rodder. One half of One Martini at a Time. I don't look at the glass as half empty; I look at it as, "OMG! I'm almost out of vodka!"
