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Heather Smith

Heather Smith

A Gen-Xer turns 50. Life lessons from the peter-pan generation.

2020. This year marks my 50th birthday. I woke up Jan. 1, 2020 without a hangover and thought “well, I’ve learned some things”. Then I…

Mar 8, 2020

I mean come on. She looks like she has it all figured out right? 1989. 19 years old.

Mar 8, 2020

Heather Smith

Riot Fest and the empty nest.

Christmas 2001 our youngest had just turned one. For the last two years I had been trying to communicate to my husband how unhappy I was…

Sep 13, 2019

Sep 13, 2019

Heather Smith

Liz Phair, the soundtrack to surviving.

I was late to the Liz Phair game. Exile in Guyville came out in 1993 and somehow didn’t hit my radar for about a decade. In 2002, when I…

Jul 10, 2019

Jul 10, 2019

Heather Smith

Mommas

I’ve been watching my social media the last couple of weeks as we wrapped up this school year. I’m watching more than one friend celebrate…

Jun 8, 2019

Jun 8, 2019

Heather Smith

The carpet is blue.

This is my sisters room. The carpet is blue.

Jan 15, 2019

Jan 15, 2019

Heather Smith

Cigarettes, dinosaurs and that calming blue smoke.

Today I was conducting some business at the bank, and my heavily bearded, perfectly coiffed teller had his Vape sitting at his station. I…

Jan 9, 2019

Cigarettes, dinosaurs and that calming blue smoke.

Jan 9, 2019

Heather Smith

Being single and Goo Goo Doll triggers.

So I’m laying in bed this morning doing what I do when I wake up in the morning, I’m scrolling through my facebook mindlessly. A friend of…

Dec 8, 2018

Dec 8, 2018

Heather Smith

Thanksgiving, 1970’s style.

There are two things that come to mind first when I think about Thanksgiving: black olives and mashed potatoes.

Nov 23, 2018

Thanksgiving, 1970’s style.

Nov 23, 2018

Heather Smith

And the baby turns 18.

It really hadn’t sunk in until about 4 minutes ago. The baby is turning 18 tomorrow.

Sep 23, 2018

Sep 23, 2018

Heather Smith

17.

I don’t know how it was exactly, that when we were 17 we felt so old.

Aug 6, 2018

Aug 6, 2018

Heather Smith

Heather Smith

Full time advertising employee, part-time traveler. Pisces full of words, moderate language skills. I like taking pictures. https://heatheringheather.com/

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