Author Archives: Rebecca Cooper

Last week, Craig and I had a “thing”. Rarely do we disagree, and this wasn’t so much a disagreement, or a fight – this was him saying something that hurt my feelings.  And bless this man; he is marrying one of the most sensitive women of all time ever, ever, ever.  Anyway. He hurt myContinue reading “. On Really Hard Things.”

“You’re just not good at it.” He shrugged his shoulders in a way that made me think the whole world probably agreed with him. Ages ago, it fell out of his mouth. He laughed. “You never have been.” And I agreed because I suppose he’s right. I was young and it was summer and isn’tContinue reading “. Pep Talks .”

You whiten your teeth, slim your face, enlarge your eyes. Raise your cheekbones, resize your earlobes, erase blemishes. Elongate your nose. Hide those under-eye bags that never seem to go away. Fix your eyebrows. Don’t forget that frown line that showed up in the middle of the night back in 2004. Right then – that’sContinue reading “. On Filters .”