Devrie Brynn Donalson

A refreshingly honest, wonderfully humorous, and entirely inspiring exploration of change, fear, and what it really means to be alone, from everyone's favorite TikTok oracle, Devrie Donalson.

Dear Reader Just Doing Your Best,

Give me a minute, and I'll tell you a story. 

I'll tell you about my junior high soulmate, my haunted house, and running away to Scotland to lose my virginity. I'll tell you about my ardent belief in the power of cheese and the goodness of pigeons, the rules for attending my funeral, and my struggle to reconcile feminism with Brazilian bikini waxes. I'll tell you about my greatest failures and the many ways I have suffered because of my fear. I'll tell you about my greatest triumphs and exactly how I figured out how to be a person I'm proud of. 

If you've ever felt the visceral fear of being abandoned or the anxious anticipation of change, you might find something here like hope or validation. If you've ever wondered if you had it in you to start over, or if you've found yourself questioning what you've always believed, you might find a road map to navigating both. 

I can't say I know a lot, but my life has been one of many lessons. The wisdom I have managed to collect while the universe desperately chased me down, clobbering me with things to learn while I scurried around like an oblivious rat in search of abandoned street pizza, I happily share with you now. 

What I hope you find in these pages is a little laughter, a little healing, and permission to be okay. I hope you find the courage to embrace change and the sudden joy of believing you have always, always been enough. Above all and against all odds, from one pizza rat to another, I hope you feel seen. 

Sincerely,
DD

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you’re gonna die alone

Madi Van Houten

My pain was a thing that howls at the moon. 

But I know that there is a monarch butterfly garden named after my grandpa in the neighborhood he used to love. I know that there is a very patient cat who endured lassoing by a tiny cowboy buried somewhere no one remembers. I know that someone received an arrangement of tiger lilies on a warm August day years ago, and that they only lasted about a week. I know that I'm gathering things I call precious, and someday someone will swipe their fingers across the top and marvel at the dust before they carry them away. I know that it's okay to make room on my shelves. I know that snowfakes melt.

 There is too much life ahead of all of us to be described in sed-to-bes. I pray we are all hungry until the day we die. I pray we never run out of delicious new things to fll up our plates with and try. After all, we only have the one life. We only have the one chance.

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