Bottling Starlight: Thoughts on the Search for Femininity

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I’ve always wanted to be a girly-girl. Even when, as a child, I would scream inside at the touch of lace – a prerequisite, I inferred, to being girly. Instead, I opted for elegance, and I could pull it off back then. I was thin as a rail, a waif, until 21 and a baby. I was willowy. Even back then, I felt lost. Awkward and gawky with too-big glasses and *too many freckles*.

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Let's be honest... Katherine J. Parker sitting under a tree at the same playground she cried at in March.

Let’s Be Honest…

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Let’s be honest… I’m terrible at keeping a blog running.  I used to be ashamed of my failure, hiding each new attempt at regularity behind a thin guise of rejuvenation.  Pardon my dust I’d say when I really meant Please don’t notice how lazy I am. But I wasn’t lazy, not really.  Mostly—I was, and

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