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The Driftless Letters

by The Weed | Sep 1, 2022

Oh hi! I'm writing a substack. Because of course I am. Lol.You can find it here: https://joshweed.substack.com/p/dear-mama-shellieWhile I still plan to post content here, I think this is going to be the main thing I do as far as sharing my writing--blogging here has...

The Best E-course I’ve Ever Seen

by The Weed | Apr 30, 2021

Hey all! My website is back up! You may have noticed that it was down for a while. Technical difficulties doesn't even BEGIN to explain what was going on, and it was a mess of gargantuan proportions. But we shall not dwell on the past! We shall not dwell on negative...

Sometimes Good Things Happen

by The Weed | Sep 30, 2020

I just walked out of one of those therapy sessions that is really hard. (My own therapy, not with a client.) My new therapist is a rockstar. She is so good at eliciting content, and then she gently challenges in this perfect way. I think this might be my favorite way...

Daily Download #3

by The Weed | Sep 27, 2020

Met some of the Mayorgas today--Carlos's half brother. Amazing family. His nieces and nephews are delightful. Time to tune in: There is someone waiting to join. A particular vibration. You will provide passage. Your parenting journey isn't over. You felt it many years...

So turns out, I’m really just a blogger

by The Weed | Mar 25, 2020

Okay, I get it. Online writing has migrated to "platforms" and then then the platforms have migrated to even more platforms, and Twitter has remained its glorious self throughout it all, and the art of blogging died an ignominious death one sad night in about 2011,...

What it’s like to have a post go viral

by The Weed | Nov 6, 2019

When Lolly and I had our coming out post in 2012 go viral, we were completely bushwhacked by it. It was such a shock, watching that thing spread and spread. It was terrifying and electric. There is nothing quite like it. It's a gut-dropping feeling, and in many...

The New Phase

by The Weed | Oct 17, 2019

Hey, is anybody out there? *taps mic an annoying number of times* {crickets} Quick question: is blogging dead now? Yes? Cool. Well then, welcome to my WEBSITE where I publish personal essays about my LIFE right here on the WORLD WIDE WEB on this official WEBSITE that...

Dear family and friends: A letter about my divorce written on my 16th wedding anniversary. (By Lolly)

by The Weed | Jun 7, 2018

Dear family and friends, Today is an important day for me. It marks the 16th year since Josh and I were married in the Salt Lake Temple. It also marks 6 years since we had our first viral post, which brought many of you into our lives. I know that there are a lot of...

Turning a Unicorn into a Bat: the Post in Which We Announce the End of our Marriage

by The Weed | Jan 25, 2018

(And the post in which we sincerely apologize to every member of the LGBTQIA community) (all photos in the post taken by Kailey Shakespear.) (Admin note: You can view a copy of the original post from five years ago here. A copy was made because the original post was...

In the wake of a hurricane, things start to repair

by The Weed | Sep 23, 2017

(I wrote this yesterday.) Hello, world. I am sitting here with one of my besties, Zina Petersen, in her sister's beach house in Jacksonville Florida. Zina invited me to fly out as she housesits for her sister so that we can have our own wonderful little writing...

California Poppies

by The Weed | Feb 7, 2017

When my mom was sick--several years in--she went outside one afternoon in the summer and saw that poppies had grown spontaneously in our side-yard. They were orange and bright. She was something of a gardener. I have many memories of her outside in the backyard...

Stream of Consciousnesses

by The Weed | Dec 29, 2016

Stream of consciousness as we drive: I'm listening to the Brahms violin concerto. It's... I haven't decided yet. I'd never heard it before this week. I've been thinking a lot about poetry--it's like my mind revolves around the same things over and over and over again,...