being you

  • Crazy Hair: A Memoir of Self-Doubt or Self-Love. (I havent figured out which yet.)

    My hair is a bit provocative. In the course of a single day, it can draw both raving compliments and ugly criticism. It causes normal people to do weird things like try to pat a complete stranger. I’ve been sniffed, okay? A simple change of style can evoke feelings of betrayal. People look at me…

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  • Be Who You Are

    I’m a Sagittarius. And an ESTJ. If you know anything about both astrology and Meyer’s Briggs, you probably know what a contradiction that is. And those who know me might just think I *like* being complicated and difficult. Well, friends, you might be right. Because as monster mother says, I was born this way. Of course,…

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  • Another new year is about to dawn and I’m all “Whoa there, Silver, what happened to 2011?” It seems like it went by in a flash, and there have been times in the past three months when I felt frustrated that I wasn’t writing as much as I ought to be. I mean, hello. I…

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