I live in a gentrifying neighborhood. My neighbor to the left, Yolanda, is a Mexican immigrant who owns a bunch of chickens and roosters, while the guy to my right is a retired NFL player with a brand-new Audi, whose personalized license plate spells his name, Trey (which says
Chip Gaines (from HGTV's 'Fixer Upper') has a saying with his kids, "the Gaineses can do hard things." > I want our kids to be drawn to what's uncomfortable because the good stuff takes work. It's an honor to do
Okay so I was in Google Analytics last night and 762 of you are repeat readers???!!! What?? I do nothing to encourage people to come back! 😂 WHO ARE YOU?????!!!! I want to know! So for the next week, I'm opening up my Twitter DMs to anyone. I'
Yesterday I wrote a post [https://www.madisontaskett.com/how/] in just 10 minutes and it was pretty good! I'm proud of it. I can write impactful things so quickly, because every night for the last year, I've written (whether I've posted or not)
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It's after midnight. I spent all night writing a post that ended up being too personal to publish (and it wasn't that great anyhow). But it's my honor to write each night even if it's bad, even if I have to throw
Last month, I realized that caffeine makes me manic [https://www.madisontaskett.com/done-with-caffeine/]. So my curious self decided to experiment w/ varying levels of caffeine (turns out even just half a coca-cola makes me weird) and now, sugar. This week I tried eating chocolate cake and
I just turned off all the lights and put on one of my all-time favorite night songs. For 4:55 I danced all over my living room, watching the moonlight stream in through my office windows, feeling alive, being so aware that I am alive! I have a body
Okay, that was the last thing I'll do today, now I really need to allow myself to rest. It's okay to rest. It's okay to rest. It's okay to rest. It's okay to rest. It's okay to rest.
I've spent the last year cutting out a lot of my 'drugs' (people and workaholism are my main fixes) but I haven't cut all the chaos out of my life yet. Because I'm scared. What if, underneath the addictions, there is nothing?
> "Maybe you'll be able to retire by the time you're 40!" "Haha, we'll see Dad. I love you!" I hung up and reflected. I'm doing okay financially, but it was a real road to get here, and
I'm at an occult bookstore to get my cards read for the first time. Melissa, my  friend who is about as woo-woo as I am (aka, not at all) recommended it, and even though I excitedly agreed, now I'm feeling a bit scared and I
Rituals are important. This bottle of champagne, a gift from a figure in my past, has been sitting on the bottom of my fridge, haunting me for months. I was going to throw it away, but my then-roommate said, 'You should drink it instead, as a fuck you.