by parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Feminist AF, Loving
This is an excerpt from the funny, feminist, dating memoir I’m writing, Amy Dates: Tales of a Tinder Slut. In times like these, it is crucial that we speak up and don’t tolerate misogyny in any form. Even on Valentine’s Day.Especially on...
by parrish | Jan 7, 2025 | Being Human, Exploring
Facebook Memories tells me it’s been 16 years since I fell rock climbing in Costa Rica, resulting in a few stitches in my head and a serious concussion that went undiagnosed for years leading to multiple chronic health issues. When my babies were babies, I hurt...
by parrish | Dec 18, 2024 | Being Human, Creating, Exploring, Mental Health
I’ve always loved a journal. Everything about it. The feel of it in my hands. The soft, blank pages inside. Every journal is an opportunity. Every journal is full of potential. From the little locked diaries of my childhood to beautiful journals handmade by my sister...
by parrish | Nov 11, 2024 | Creating, Mothering
This piece was first published in 2017 as part of an anthology but over the past week, leading up to my first son’s 14th birthday (wtf!!!), it kept coming to mind. Today, on his big day, I pulled it up and reread it and wow… as a writer, it always stuns me...
by parrish | Nov 3, 2024 | Being Human
TW: violence, death, abuse Last week in my town a fifteen year old boy was killed. A family is broken. An unimaginable loss has filled those hearts, grief their now constant companion. That alone is devastating, more than any family should have to bear. But...
