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2024 was the worst. Never have I wanted more than to disintegrate into the earth, to close my eyes and disappear, to join my dead mother for one more hug, one more long, ambling, talking-about-nothing-and-everything conversation at the kitchen table like we always did. Some days it still feels like a nightmare I’m waiting to wake up from.

But in 2024 I had my son. The most joyful, sleepiest, curious, cuddliest baby. The baby I wasn’t sure I wanted even though we planned for him. The baby who, in some ways, saved me.

In 2024, my friends showed up in droves. Strangers and acquaintances poured their love onto me in the form of notes and food and texts. People shared their time and energy and money to help alleviate some of our pain, and at the time in my life in which I felt most helpless, most depleted, I physically felt their love. It mattered.

My goals for 2025 are very different from previous years. Though I’m working more than ever, I hope to slow down for once. I hope to start querying a book. I hope to continue moving through my grief in a way that allows me to show up for my kids and my husband. I hope I continue to see life as a gift, this lifetime as an opportunity to be better and kinder and to make other people’s lives a bit nicer.

Not to be morbid (that’s just who I am now), but we’re all gonna die. One day we will all turn to dust, the earth will explode or we’ll have a heart attack in the guest room of someone’s house. And when our bodies are taken away, and our souls have moved on to bigger things, there will be all this STUFF. All this unusable, leftover stuff that has no purpose anymore. If 2024 has taught me anything, it’s that the only thing in this life that matters is how much we love each other. How well we treated one another. How we made each other’s lives a little more bearable. It’s the only thing we can take with us when we go. Go love your people.

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11 months on 11/11. Please enjoy some poorly staged photos of this near-one year old who obviously can’t leave anything be. Today would also be the original Ruby’s 101st birthday. She’s not here with us physically, and boy do we miss her, but we know she’d be pretty thrilled with what a curious, playful thing her namesake is shaping up to be. Ruby James loves books, just like her great grandma did, and I like to think that’s a little piece of her with us today. Happy birthday to the Rubys. ❤️

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I am so grateful to have been loved and mothered by so many incredible women in my life, from best friends to bosses, but I am especially lucky to have been raised by strong, funny, curious, kind, thoughtful, optimistic women. Love to my grandma, the original Ruby, my mom, and my aunt. And lucky me, to be cracked wide open by my amazing little girl. To be her mother is exhausting and exhilarating and I couldn’t be more in awe of it all. Thanks to my mom who taught me how to love, and helped me become the woman who would be Ruby’s mother.

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What an amazing birthday! Thank you so much to everyone who shared, donated Sunday or used my code to donate at another time. I’m so grateful to everyone who made this possible, especially Mississippi Blood Services. MSB - your team is the best! I need so many transfusions and hosting a drive helps offset costs; your donation means more than you think! 🩸🩸🩸#DV91

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Happy Mother’s Day to my gorgeous mamma and all the mammas and mamma figures out there—new or seasoned, living or passed. You do the most difficult work, and we love you so much for it. ❤️

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L to R: Grandma, mom, and Aunt. ❤️ Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there, those with us and those who’ve moved on to another place.

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Shopper’s sky! I know what you’re getting for Christmas, @deenkat 🎄💋

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Our first Blow Out Bootcamp was SO FUN!!!! Our participants gave themselves voluminous Blowouts like pros! Who else is ready to get a group together and have a class? Such a fun thing to do with all your besties! #doitlikethepros #blowoutbootcamp #mcorleysalon #girlsnightout

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Get ready, @hedwigonbway bc we're coming for ya! #teamdebdoesdallas #windspearoperahouse #girlstrip

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Me and my Lebanese grandfather, whose parents came to Ellis Island for a better life. They made their way down to McComb, Mississippi, to meet family. They owned their own businesses, created a community, and thrived among family. My grandfather served as an officer in the US army. Afterwards, he wanted to be an actor, so he went to Hollywood. They weren't ready to put a brown man in a leading role on the big screen in the 1930s, let alone a brown man with a thick southern accent. He came back to Mississippi to eventually have a successful career in radio and television. On his 90th birthday, he received more than 2,000 letters. When he died, the TV station received so many calls from across the nation about his funeral, that they streamed it live on the internet, something he would have LOVED. Woody Assaf is an American legend in the south and the son of Middle Eastern immigrants.

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If my grandfather were alive today, his mind would explode if I told him about Snapchat, Uber, and the accuracy of my Yahoo! Weather app. Happy 99th bday grandpa!

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