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Dash of Sass: Let’s Stop Trying to Be Right & Just Be Real

July 1, 201528 CommentsMandy Hale

I’ve been in a bit of a creative slump lately that has definitely affected my writing and tweeting and posting. I’m not sure why, but every summer around this time, I hit a creative wall. And because I don’t really have anything brilliant to say, I stop saying anything at all. When I saw this beautifully perfect quote by Brian Andreas, it occurred to me that perhaps I don’t have to say anything brilliant. Or … » Read More

Things I’m No Longer Apologizing For

May 13, 201540 CommentsMandy Hale

Last weekend I posted something on my personal Twitter page that a lot of people disagreed with. I got hate tweets for two days about it, which was baffling to me, because when did having a differing opinion become so offensive to people? Are we all supposed to be cookie cutter versions of one another, never having or voicing a contrasting idea or thought or viewpoint or opinion? How boring would life be if that … » Read More

Love is Messy

May 6, 20159 CommentsMandy Hale

I was reading this well-known and beloved quote from The Velveteen Rabbit today that popped up in my Timehop and something occurred to me that I’m not sure has ever occurred to me before.

Love is messy.

We always talk about life being messy, and it is. But love…LOVE…real love, true love, life-changing love…is impolite. It’s untamed. It’s not always pretty. It knows no boundaries and lives by no rules.

Love is messy.

Look no further than a grandmother’s … » Read More

Dash of Sass: Be Who You Really Are

April 30, 20159 CommentsMandy Hale

Today I hereby give you permission to feel exactly how you are feeling without apologizing or stifling or excusing or resisting. I give you permission to drop the politeness and the masks and the sugar-coating and just be REAL. To stop wasting time justifying and rationalizing and analyzing and just say what you mean and mean what you say. To accept yourself in all your brave, broken beauty and to stop trying to pick up … » Read More

The Single Woman’s Dash of Sass: Oprah’s Lifeclass (Day One)

March 27, 2012CommentMandy Hale

Quote of the Day: “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the whole person you were intended to be.” ~Oprah The Single Woman Says: As most of you know, I was invited to go on the road with Oprah as she films her Lifeclass in several cities across the country as a “VIB “ – Very Important Blogger – basically covering the event … » Read More