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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.

  • Look Inside Your Vagina (or you’ll die)

    I’ve had a mole on my face, next to my sideburn, for as long as I remember. It seemed innocuous enough, until recently when it started turning into some weird bumpy thing. Then, my sister who is a nursing student was all, “CANCER this and CANCER that,” and I got all panicky and went to…

  • Ho Ho Whore Nuts

    Ho Ho Whore Nuts

    It’s that time again, where parents encourage an overweight stranger to touch their children and whore nuts are all the rage at Whole Foods. No, it’s not one night in Bangkok, it’s Christmas. I love Christmas. I hate it. I’m conflicted. Christmas is a struggle for me because I feel split between two different parts…

  • It’s Amazing I can Walk Anywhere

    There are two basic skills that I’m inexplicably terrible at: walking and swallowing. Nine times out of ten, if I’m drinking something, I choke on it. And I fall down no less than 9 times on any given day. The other morning, I took Oliver for a walk. I crossed the street and started down…

  • A Little Pile of Graveyard

    The other night, F and I came home from a movie to find out trash destroyed and an entire chicken carcass missing. I panicked. I’d read a lot of articles about shit that dogs shouldn’t eat and knew that cooked chicken bones were at the top of that list. Convinced that my dog was dying,…

  • 7 Things I’ve Learned About Therapy

    7 Things I’ve Learned About Therapy

    Looking back, I’ve definitely needed therapy for pretty much my entire life. I mean, obviously. Mostly because my childhood was,  uhm, interesting (more on that later) but also because I’m just the kind of person who needs some grounding.  A lot of grounding. Despite the fact that I’ve obviously always needed therapy, I’ve only ever sought…

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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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