Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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What you don't want to hearAndy and Shelby were sisters who lived across the street from my grandma in Amarillo, and because we around the same ages, they were our best friends. In those years anyway. I don’t remember if it was Andy’s birthday or Shelby’s. I only remember they had a magician for the party…
This could be a metaphor for somethingA while back, I bought a van. This is true and also could be metaphor for something. I’d been looking for a van for months—scouring facebook and craigslist, sending messages that were never returned and blocking the numbers of guys who took my not buying their rustbucket as a…
We don't swear in this houseWe don’t swear in this house. We don’t use four letter words. We have a bigger vocabulary that that. We know words like solitary confinement and life sentences at seventeen years old and no chance of parole. We don’t use profanity. We’ll let a man freeze to death in a donated…
