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A Flower Never Compares Itself: Addressing the Skinny-Culture Trend
If you're like me and you are a woman, or just a human in general, you likely grew up with multiple different media sources, other humans and subtle nudges to change the way you looked from a very young age. You were told or even programmed to believe that you were either too much or too little of something. Your thighs are too thick, your waist isn't skinny enough, your boobs aren't big enough, your outfit isn't trendy enough or doesn't fit in. On and on and on. This rhetori
Patty Marie Haltom
Jul 135 min read
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Dressed as a Man
I can remember the first time I intentionally dressed like a man. I was living in the Navy Yard, Brooklyn neightborhood in New York City. I was attempting to make it in New York, prior to when I was hired on as a Health Inspector for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. I was working so many different jobs, but just loving my life there having been in NY less than a year. Just 23 years old, first time living outside of my home state of Indiana and soaking it all u
Patty Marie Haltom
May 294 min read
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Wild Women easing back into the Front-country
It can be one of the more difficult things to do after spending an extended amount of time in the outdoors. After the initial shock of...
Patty Marie Haltom
Apr 7, 20242 min read
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An Ode to Solo
Solo: (solo experience) spending an extended amount of time alone on purpose. Solo. It's not something that can be summed up in one...
Patty Marie Haltom
Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Hitch-hiking Down Under
My first hitchhike in a different country: During the first part of 2017, I moved to work and live in Australia for 5 months l as an...
Patty Marie Haltom
Dec 3, 20237 min read
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36 and Living Wild
So, this is the moment where I begin writing this... the beginning of a book (Even just typing that - a huge chill of weird excitement...
Patty Marie Haltom
Jul 28, 20234 min read
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Let's start at the very beginning...(well kind of :) )
So, I've decided that in order for you all to know how much I truly love and believe in my busiess and this mission, I would need to...
Patty Marie Haltom
Dec 20, 20224 min read
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My love for and amazing relationship with winter...
Peaceful. Quiet. Serene. These are just a few words that pop into my head when standing outside on a cold night under the clear dark...
Patty Marie Haltom
Dec 20, 20222 min read
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Belonging and Sense of Place
For many years I have traveled from one place to the next searching for something I thought I could only find by moving around. Heck, I...
Patty Marie Haltom
Sep 18, 20222 min read
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Changing in Parking Lots
Hi friends! I am not sure who will read this, but I am planning to write to you all about my life up until this point (age 35) and moving...
Patty Marie Haltom
Sep 9, 20221 min read
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