Before I moved to LA I had never been here. Not once. The first time I saw my apartment in person was the day I moved in. Before I moved to LA I had never drove 30 hours straight, packed up all my belongings and said, screw it – let’s go! A year before I…
Author: Ashley Renee
Who Are You When No One is Watching?
Did you see the movie Us? The Jordan Peele film is full of twists and turns and tons of fan theories. I believe one of the underlining messages is that sometimes we are the actual monsters, the villains, the bad guy. We can be our own worst enemies and often the bad guy in our…
Where Did You Go?
I feel like death is surrounding me. Kind of a morbid way to start a conversation…or blog, or anything really. It’s 100% true though. In the past month alone I’ve found out about several deaths of people that played important roles in my life at several different times in my life. I’m starting…
Turning Pain Into Passion: How This Singer Overcame Her Domestic Violence Situation With Music
You can’t tell what a person has been through simply by looking at them, certainly not in Rozen’s case. She’s beautiful, has an infectious laughter, an energy that can brighten any bad mood and a voice that leaves you wondering how such a small woman can be packing so much heat. After my husband…
Thank you Neyo: An Open Letter From a Wife to a Married Man
Have you ever heard a man reprimand another man for cheating on his spouse? I haven’t, ever. What I have heard is men bragging about cheating, sympathizing with the cheater, assisting him in said cheating, or being amused by it. I’ve seen this circumstance time and time again and very rarely have I ever, certainly…
Stop Making Me Your Relationship Goals: A Word to Single Ladies From a Married Woman
“You are goals.” A statement I’ve heard plenty of times from close friends, associates, to absolute strangers. Though I know it is being said from a very positive place, I absolutely can’t stand it. Not just when people say it to me, but when it’s posted under couples pics, to celebrity couples and…
5 Times your Girlfriends Gave you Horrible Dating Advice
If I had of listened to my friends dating advice I would have been pregnant at 16, married to a scammer, with a body count well past a fifth graders counting abilities or possibly…and I mean this in all seriousness…dead. As much as our close girlfriends love and care about us, lets face it, sometimes…
Six Funerals and a Wedding
My Funeral is next week. I remember accidentally saying one week before my wedding. I dont know why I mistakingly said funeral instead of wedding. Maybe it was due to hearing the word funeral so much as so many close friends and family were losing loved ones so close to our wedding, maybe…
8 Signs You are Self Sabotaging Your Dating Life
It’s Summa summa summa timmmmee and after getting quite a few calls, texts and outright cries for help about men and dating issues I figured I would come out of hiding and help my ladies out. Around spring and summer men tend to totally forget their home training, morals and the fact…
5 Issues You Need To Stop Bringing into Relationships Immediately
Recently I hosted a ladies wine night at my house which consisted of a ton of wine, appetizers, vegan cheesecake that was a hit or miss depending on who you asked, trash talking, confessions of daddy issues and some deep revelations about ourselves few of us hadn’t even realized or admitted to others prior to…
