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Follow along for some unhinged ranting about writing, life-ing, and things that I am reading or hyper focusing on at the moment. Could be a book series or Orcas, your guess is as good as mine.

  • 19 Things I Wish I Could Go Back in Time to Tell My Younger Self

    19 Things I Wish I Could Go Back in Time to Tell My Younger Self

    I wouldn’t say that I regret any of my adult decisions because my choices made me who I am and I’m pretty okay with myself. With that being said, things could have been a little easier and sometimes I fantasize about what I’d say to younger me if I could go back in time. I…

  • The Moth, Star Wars, and Facing my Fears

    The Moth, Star Wars, and Facing my Fears

    I hate speaking in public.  I really hate it. If you’ve ever been to one of my readings, you know that I’m usually three or four Ketal One and soda’s in before I can even approach the stage. This is because it terrifies me to climb up there and have everyone looking back at me,…

  • Self-Care Lessons I Wish I’d Known Before my Breakdown

    Self-Care Lessons I Wish I’d Known Before my Breakdown

    After suffering from chronic depression, unbearable anxiety, and panic last year that lead to an all-out mental breakdown, I’ve been on the long, hard road to recovery. I’ve had good days and bad, perfect weeks and weeks of relapse where I slip backward, but all in all, I’ve been on the mend one act of…

  • This Little Shit That I Love

    This Little Shit That I Love

    Every morning I walk my dog, Oliver, around the block in the freezing cold begging him to make a doody so we can go home and I can get to work. Yesterday while walking him, bundled up like Ralphie’s little brother in A Christmas Story, we’d rounded the corner to come home and he still…

  • On Getting Pregnant

    On Getting Pregnant

    I spent my entire adult life doing everything in my power to not have a baby. Condoms, the morning after pill, the trusty pull-out method, any and all means necessary to just not be pregnant. And turns out, it’s not all that easy to get pregnant in the first place. I mean, not when you’re…

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I’m m.e.evans

M.E. Evans is a journalist and the author of the bestselling feminist memoir, Naked In Italy. She is known for her stinging prose and dark humor. When she’s not holed up and writing you can find her talking about books on her podcast You’re Gonna Be Great! (YGBG!) or writing about books for the bookish lifestyle newsletter, The Main Character Society.

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