Tina L. Hendricks

Dear Pamela,

I’m so sorry for the behavior of the media lately. The idea of you not wearing makeup has them up in a shameful roar, and I’m pissed. Although I love seeing your face, my gut has been bothered by what has been hurling around. I feel an unrequited friendship between us; therefore, I’m a bit …

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Tina L. Hendricks

Shedding my skin…

Molting: The act of casting off body parts. What about when we cast off more than just our skin, hair, or shells? What about relationships? What about ripping ourselves away from our abusers?  Molting your abuser is not the beautiful loss of the old and a glistening into the new as we imagine in nature. …

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Tina L. Hendricks

Call Bullshit Everyday

In the last decade, I’ve called bullshit on, well, the bullshit, so often that I finally live a virtually shit-free life. If you’re not doing the same, I fear you’re not living your most happy and authentic life. If you are like I was and doubt your worth, this challenge will be so damn hard. …

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Tina L. Hendricks

Hunger

To know the empty, the nothing, the starving ache, Is to breathe, to love, to reach and break.To know the hunger, the barren, the freezing chill, Is to eat the last, the stale, no waist, and love it still.To have so little, is the agony of more, to feel the thirst, Is to have it …

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