Michelle Schultz
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Bio
I'm mostly an editorial writer. I love to share my opinions and experiences. I don't hold back and I swear so if you take offense easily, my articles probably aren't for you. I'm a single mom just trying to stay sane.
@loreleismom
Stories (99/0)
She Conquers
Women in power. There’s not a ton. The numbers are not in our favor. Even with a woman Vice President, the numbers for women in power in the United States are low. Although we are far from the most suppressed group in the world, we are a breed that is slept on. Only twenty-six percent of the house and senate is made up of women. For state legislatures we sit a bit higher at thirty percent. Of fortune five hundred CEOs, women make up about seven percent.
By Michelle Schultz3 years ago in Viva
The Little Black Book
I was on my way home, or my place of living at that current moment. I was sharing a flat with three roommates in New York City, this was my fourth apartment since coming here from my hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Everyone told me I was crazy to move out here alone and that I would never make it big in the journalism industry without a degree. But here I was, bar tending in any place that would take me. Which meant taking the subway, constantly.
By Michelle Schultz3 years ago in Humans
Money, Money, Taxes, Bullarchy, Money, Money
I am damn near twenty-seven years old and for some reason I am still learning money management. If you were raised like me, and if you were a millennial, you probably were, you learned how to balance a check book and that you absolutely need a degree in order to get a career (bullarchy). That is what they drilled into us in school. That was about it. I don't know about you, but I have used my checkbook twice in the five years that I've had it. In fact, do those things expire? That's probably something I should look into.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in Lifehack
Dear Lorelei: I Can’t Explain
Dear Lorelei, It's June first, twenty-twenty and the world is in chaos. We've been in quarantine or bored in the house and in the house bored since March thirteenth or at least, that's when my job sent me home. But I truly believe that is for the best right now. You will be four in two short months and trying to explain the world to you has been hard and heartbreaking the entire year. I've been telling you the world is sick but it's more than that and getting so much worse. The day you came to me and asked me if you were super good, if you could go back to school the next day, I cried and I prayed harder than I've prayed in a long time.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in The Swamp
Wedding Stress
I'm getting married! I'm still getting used to saying that. I say it to my fiance about nineteen times a day. It hasn't started driving him nuts... yet. I never really thought I would get married as a kid. I always thought - even growing up, that if I did get married, I would elope in Vegas. So when I realized that I needed to start planning a wedding, I got a little scared. I know there's a lot to it. But I'm a low - stress person. If it causes me stress, I try not to deal with it. Everyone told me, planning my wedding, it was going to be impossible for me to not stress about it. They weren't wrong.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in Families
Superwoman?
Jessi was born into a fairly normal family: a mom, a dad, soon she had a little sister- me. Before Jessi turned seven, our mom died of cancer. Being a little girl without a mother is hard enough, but she also had me. I didn't realize growing up that she had inherited me as a responsibility, but she did. My dad was grieving and trying his best to find a way to stay home and provide for his two daughters, so my sister pretty much took over the roll of mother to me.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in Families
Twenty-Three Years
Dear mom, It's been twenty - three years to the day since you died. I have accomplished a lot in that time. From being able to go to the bathroom by myself, to graduating high school, having a baby, and now graduating again and soon getting married.
By Michelle Schultz4 years ago in Families
5 Reasons Canada is Better
I was at work and we were talking about the latest Trump endeavor (him killing Qassem Suleimani) and how weird it is to live in America right now. Like it's kind of a double edged sword - if your proud to be here most of the world thinks your an idiot and let's be real - it's not the best place in the world to live anymore.
By Michelle Schultz5 years ago in Wander
5 Things We Never Thought We'd Do As Parents
Before I became a mother I never thought I would be a mother. Of course, when I got pregnant, I had an idea of how I would parent. I was going to be my little girl's best friend. But there is a giant list of things I would never thought I would do as a mother starting with this
By Michelle Schultz5 years ago in Families
Lorelei's Letter - Letter Eight
Lorelei's Letters is a series of posts addressed for my daughter, but that have general statements that I believe everyone should hear from someone, at some point in their lives. Basically, they are letters from mother to daughter, trying to explain this crazy world, and give some advice. A lot of them are on dark topics that I hope my daughter will get through with no scars. I hope you enjoy, or at least take something from the letters. Know that no matter who you are, where you are, or what you've done, you are loved. - A mother
By Michelle Schultz5 years ago in Families
