Hot Mess Summer

by Melissa Foster

There’s a lot of freedom in being happy with yourself and not looking for someone else to try to make you happy.”

were writing a guy for myself, he’d be loyal, smart, and laid-back, with some cushion around the middle because he likes to eat, so he can appreciate where I’m coming from. A guy who is kind to everyone and likes to laugh, even during sex, and looks like hell in the morning so he can be down with my frizzy hair and puffy eyes.”

In writing, they say show don’t tell,

it’s hard to let your kids deal with their decisions and face the consequences,

“Honey, bringing a child into the world is an adult decision. Children don’t owe us a damn thing.” “I didn’t do it because I owed you. I did it because I love you.”