Kara Nesvig

Her features are perfect. Her skin is perfect. Her body is petite and toned.

I like to be reminded that someone else has intruded into my life, and that his silhouette is etched in the white cotton.

You relish your independence but then grow to hate it on Sunday afternoons when all your friends are cuddled up on their couches and you’re home alone twiddling your thumbs, thinking “What ifs.”

No one’s ever written me a love letter, so I in turn write hundreds.

Your skin doesn’t like it when you drink too much.

She posts a photo in a bikini and it gets picked up by several news outlets. Can you imagine that being your life?

In her lyrics, Gwen battles the same things all young women do.

Do you know how refreshing it was to see a celebrity female with a little skin spilling over the top of her pencil skirt the way mine sometimes does?

In effort to get out of my usual pattern of fooling around with the same four dudes over and over, I made myself a pact. For every (new) boy I kissed, I could reward myself with a new pair of shoes.

This comes as a serious blow to those of us who believed in true love.

I guess we like the sound of a book slamming shut, a door closing, a chapter ending. We like it so much we do it again and again.

This pair was sold to a private buyer, who donated them to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids. They were stolen in 2005, returned, and again stolen just last week!

Here’s exactly what to do when you accidentally sunburn your face.

Can you make a perfume that smells like my grandma’s big triumphant pink peonies, like her little lavender house and the pretty things she kept there? Can you make a perfume that smells like my heart breaking in the morning when I found out she had died?

‘At this age, you quit trying to look sexy and just focus on not looking gross.’

You can’t save country music when country music doesn’t play women.

I used to wear these silly thrifted little slips and nighties to bed when he still woke up thinking I was Christmas morning.

Take a break every hour or so if you work in an office just to stretch and walk around to give your brain a break and keep you from getting flat Office Mom butt.