{berets and bongos} 91;
“the world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even...
View Article{cycle love} winter cycling;
one of the questions i get asked the most is, “you bike everywhere? even in the winter? isn’t that, like, cold?” the next question i am asked in terms of frequency is, “why are you carrying around a...
View Article{berets and bongos} 95;
{tampa. january 2012.} “a thousand doors ago when i was a lonely kid in a big house with four garages and it was summer as long as i could remember, i lay on the lawn at night, clover wrinkling over...
View Articleseven year old selves, a playlist;
{click above picture of three year-old mackenzie for playlist, because seven year-old me had an unsightly white girl ‘fro} like i said before, the sads don’t typically prey upon me in the winter, i’ll...
View Article2013: the year of “nope”;
i am a yes girl through and through. i say yes to new friends because, hey, new friends! i say yes to babysitting new kids for new families because, hey, money for me to blow on overpriced decaf...
View Articlei just want to wear all the hats, please;
{my preferred means of studying} i’m gonna whisper this really softly in case i startle any of you. i figured out i don’t want to apply to grad school. not this year at least. maybe not even in five...
View Articlepost-grad reading list;
the other night i had the pleasure of meeting a really kindred spirit in the unlikely place of a new frozen yogurt shop where i was attending a babysitters-parent networking event (feel free to...
View Articleanorexia at a distance;
{in honor of neda week, i have a thought or two about my experience with anorexia nervosa} when i wrote my “i binged on fun at remuda ranch” series (part one. two. three.) last year, i was hoping to...
View Article{berets and bongos} 100;
{charleston, sc. july 2012} “let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. it will not lead you astray.” -rumi. Filed under: mackenzie Tagged: adventures, advice, berets...
View Articlethings you learn at twenty-two {so far};
1. relationships and friendships should never be kept alive based solely on how you both really love paul simon’s album graceland. get a grip; everyone dug graceland, everyone will always love...
View Article{berets and bongos} 101;
“he told us, with the years, you will come to love the world. and we sat there with our souls in our laps and comforted them.” -dorothea tanning, “graduation.” {after a bit of a poetry drought [and a...
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