by Molly Malley | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog
I was sitting around a fire pit with a friend on a cool-ish summer evening a few weeks ago, talking about this yet-to-be-written post. By the time I was tucked into bed in their guestroom, I was convinced that I would change my proposed angle. But as things often...
by Molly Malley | Jun 19, 2019 | Blog
Every once in a while, questions of future planning and where I want to be in five years pop up. Six months ago, I’d never have believed that my answer would be: I just want to be alive. It’s not drama. It’s not hyperbole. It’s what (I’m...
by Molly Malley | May 15, 2019 | Blog
Remember that pinup contest I wrote about entering at the beginning of 2019? I ended up dropping out. Not because I thought I couldn’t be a mono-boobed Bettie, but because I thought I would be in the throes of chemo—and that didn’t seem at all practical....
by Molly Malley | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
I have a personal mythology that I grew breasts overnight. It’s most likely that it’s just that: a myth. But—if you believe the words of the disproportionately male horn section of the middle school cadet band of my youth—something changed about me. And it...
by Molly Malley | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
I woke up New Year’s Day with my head whirling. No, it wasn’t the wine or that one extra Virtue Cider I had at the Downtown Ludington Ball Drop the night before. I was dizzied by possibilities for this next journey around the sun. I wouldn’t just be...