My Super Shitty Life — I Have Irritable Bowel Syndrome

(originally published on Dec. 27, 2012, at xoJane.com)

It will never get worse than this.

I’m thinking that to myself as I rock back and forth on a toilet in a noisy bar. It’s Saturday night, a table full of my friends is wondering where I ran off to, and I have a potential date/booty call in a couple of hours. I’m sweating, I’m shaking and I’m trying to figure out what did it this time.

Read the rest on xoJane.com. 

Re-published on Jan. 2, 2013, at The Frisky.

xojane.com: It Happened To Me: I Looked Fat in a Picture (and I’m Getting the F*%k Over It)

(originally published May 8, 2012 on xojane.com)

I did a little bit of blogging about body image for xojane.com. I was only slightly terrified to write for my teenage hero, Jane Pratt. Read the full story (with swears and the offending fat picture) here.