Beautiful You

Mermaid or Whale?

One of my students from two semesters ago sent me the below story (I’ve shortened it a tad for relative brevity).  It’s been making the rounds on email so maybe […]

2 conversations

2 conversations

At the grocery store this morning, Happy and I were picking up milk and broccoli.  Walking towards the dairy, a lady who I didn’t recognize hollered, “Oh, that’s BF’s baby, […]

Beautiful You update

Beautiful You update

By Wednesday at 5 pm (and hopefully well before  5pm), I will have finished the final proofread of Beautiful You’s 432 pages.  I then sent it back to my editor who gets […]

Want to star in a book trailer?

Want to star in a book trailer?

In a few months, Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance hits bookshelves.  And in those months, I’ll be making all sorts of plans to make sure that the book […]

This inspiring bag will be joining me on an upcoming trip to the theatre.  I just had to say to the theatre.  It sounded fancy.  Like my bag.  Truth is I am going to a play, y'all.  A play called Dixie Swim Club that my friend Donna Scott is in.

Show Your Stuff

I was 22 when my parents handed me the key (and car payment) to their 1992 Ford Escort.  The freshcort, who went through a series of names– Shmello (short for […]

Be a Body Warrior to Meet!

A weekly feature I used to do here on the blog was “A Body Warrior to Meet.”  And I miss it.  It featured women of all ages and backgrounds celebrating their […]

Go ahead, enjoy it!

I made a little summer resolution this week and wrote about it for last week’s Charlotte Observer Style section.  You can check it out below (do you need to make this […]

beautiful you. the workshop

beautiful you. the workshop

beautiful you. the workshop is a one-day self-awareness and empowerment retreat based on Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance.  Led by Rosie Molinary*, participants will use writing exercises […]

Q&A with Allison Winn Scotch

Q&A with Allison Winn Scotch

One of the books tucked into my beach book basket is Allison Winn Scotch’s latest, The One That I Want.  I first discovered Allison as a freelance writer and found […]

Random Bits

Random Bits

Sometimes, I feel like such a fraud saying that I am a writer.  My work time is compressed into the 15 hours that Happy is with the babysitter each week and, […]