Hero. Icon. Trailblazer. Activist. Storyteller. Poet. Dancer. Singer. Speaker. Inspiration. There are many words that describe Maya Angelou and since her passing yesterday, not one seems to capture her essence. She lived a life and influenced generations with her words and passion. Physically, she is described as having a warm smile, and having a significant […]
Month: May 2014
My Feet Always Touch the Ground
It was nothing short of an existential crisis. Sitting in the chair, I realized my feet didn’t reach the ground. My feet always touch. Always. It’s an accepted fact of my life. Like gravity, like the sun always rising in the east, like it being impossible to find jeans long enough in a normal store. In […]
Tall Girl at the Party
There’s a certain point where it doesn’t matter whether or not I wear heels. I’m tall. Chances are extremely high that I’ll be the tallest woman at the concert, party, club, store, gym, mall… you get the idea. The question then becomes, not “Should I wear heels?” but instead, “How much taller than everyone else […]
Stop Slouching and Stand Tall
My awareness of just how tall I was started in junior high, and with it came the need to slouch, hunch, and in general try to be shorter. I had always been the tallest girl in class, sometimes the tallest person in class, but in junior high I became more aware of it. Perhaps it was […]
Resources for Women’s Larger-Sized Shoes
This post will eventually be moved to it’s own section, but my blog is too new for those details quite yet. In the meantime, here is the important part, the resources for where to find large-sized shoes. This list is an evolution and even in the past few months that I’ve been gathering the sites, […]