confessions of a child-free cat lady

I don’t remember playing with baby dolls. Barbies? Hell yeah, for hours. (And I mean hours.) Bratz? You betcha. Polly Pockets, Betty Spaghettis, Samantha Parkington, screaming crying pooping blobs with arms in The Sims? Absolutely. But baby dolls? Participating in any kind of mothering make-believe? I’m drawing a blank. Maybe this is because by the […]

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idiots need not apply

Hi, I’m Holly, and I’m a recovering #girlboss. I was born in 1990 and easily formed 50% of my entire personality in the early 2000s, worshipping Lizzie McGuire, another 30% in the mid-00s when multiple teachers told me my Power of the Pen stories were hilarious, before they dinged them for “too many pop culture […]

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the good, the bad, the abercrombie

This could have been my “Joker.”  Because as much as I hate having to make a reference to supervillain movies made without superheroes in them and/or things that made men mad on the internet—it’s true. Netflix’s “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” documentary could have been a tea-spilling takedown and instead, […]

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