Miranda Kate

Tag: millennials

  • Hold on Loosely: What I learned in 2018

    2018 was a year of limp hands. Fists clenched so tightly, were forced open – forced to let go. While a painful lesson, there is a lot of freedom that comes from losing what you thought you couldn’t live without. Because I now know that I can – in fact – live without it. And…

  • Dear divorce

    Dear divorce, Thanks to you, I learned nothing on earth lasts as long as it should. Dear divorce, You spread the heinous lie that ‘happiness’ is on the other side of leaving, that it’s the only answer You convinced them that ‘children are resilient;’ after all, we ‘want you to be happy.’ Dear divorce, You…

  • The new chapter

    This isn’t what I wanted. I don’t mean that in a boo-hoo-poor-Miranda kind of way, it’s really more just a matter of fact. This isn’t what I wanted. When I was dreaming and wondering and planning what my life would be like, this was not it. I never imagined I would move to the Midwest…

  • The truth about control and love

    I tried to control him Boy did I try It did not work out (clearly) But not for lack of trying. If you’ve ever been in the hair products section of a Wal-Mart or Target, you’ll get an idea of how much women love control. We want it, we need it, we thrive on it.…

  • I’m not ready for marriage, but I’m doing it anyway – a man’s perspective.

    Last week I proposed to my girlfriend and, amazingly enough, she said yes. If you knew me, you would know that is nothing short of a miracle. As I began to share the news with family and friends, a trend developed among my male cohorts. Their response took some form or another of the sentence,…

  • The comeback kid

    My mom loves to remind me of the day I learned to ride a bike. There was a big hula balloo because the Rodriguez siblings had gotten new bikes! Oh, happy day! My new bike was sans training wheels which only added to my excitement. Unfortunately, as six-year-old Miranda soon realized, learning to ride a…

  • A good man is hard to find?

    You may recognize this title as one of Flannery O’Connor’s most famous short stories. I read it for the first time in my AP literature class in high school and being sixteen and more interested in boys, didn’t think too much about it. This fall I read it again and was a lot more taken…

  • My kind of broken

    Kelly Clarkson has this song called ‘Dark Side’ that I really love. It’s not as well known as some of her other hits but I think it has a lot of truth to it. The gist of the song is that we all have a ‘dark side’ and she wonders if we can be loved…

  • The Breakup

    *deeeep breath* Oh how I wish this post was about the movie with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaugh and not my own life right now. The downside about blogging about your life is that you can’t just post about the fun/happy/photogenic moments (I mean I guess you could but it wouldn’t be very honest). My…

  • Phil Dunphy & what we actually want from men

    If you’ve ever seen Modern Family you probably know and love Phil Dunphy. He is the sweet, hilarious, goofy, loving father and husband in the Dunphy family with some pretty amusing lines. As an example, here are a few of his ‘Phil-osopohies’ And: Or my favorite favorite: Phil is so endearing, one of the qualities…