Nobody puts baillee in the corner

Age: 22 Who was your first crush? Besides the typical boy on the playground who’s name I don’t remember, honestly David Bowie when I saw him in the labyrinth as a little girl. Then I wanted to know everything about him and had a crush on him ever since! Who was your first kiss? My…

This isn’t going to be one of my usual blog posts. If you blocked me for spamming your Facebook feed with updates about my latest project and decided to seek refuge in my blog, keep on scrolling buddy. If you’re with me so far, here’s some context: The idea for this project came about when…

I lived in the same town for 18 years. I paid my summer dues by working at the local water park. I got excited when we got to go two towns over to see a movie we wanted to see because our theater didn’t have it. I still sing the lyrics to our school song…

(Yes, it’s named that because this is a piece on self-reflection aka its about “Me, Myself & I”. And yes, I am pleased with myself). Do you ever wake up and realize what you’ll never be? Before I dive into this, I don’t mean as though you fixate on your flaws, but rather, it’s more…

There are many universally known and accepted facts. Fire is hot. Ice is cold. Baillee bottles up all of her feelings. These are the things we know for certain. Now that we have reaffirmed these truths, we can get to the good stuff. This isn’t meant to be a Burn Book. This isn’t a guilt…

Once upon a time, there lived a prospective writer, who also had a badass unicorn and the ability to turn any food into breakfast tacos because this is my autobiographical moment. All* of her teachers told her she had potential, but she continued to doubt herself because her writing didn’t sound like the authors she…

I want to start off by saying I don’t have kids, so I don’t yet fully understand what it means to be a parent. But I do know that my mother never hindered me. She helped me move to Austin on my 18th birthday because I had my heart set on St. Ed’s. She supported…

I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. I feel like we create unrealistic expectations that we wind up either forgetting about by the end of January or beat ourselves up trying to maintain. It’s exhausting. My solution isn’t to be more athletic or to be more financially savvy but simply to be. We…

I never thought I’d write something quite like this. 2014 was a rough year for my love life. There were a lot of nights spent watching the Casino Night and wedding episodes of The Office. There was a lot of 2AM chain smoking on my front porch. There was a lot of first post-Blake breakup Amy Winehouse.…

I love the movie Just Friends. It’s ridiculous. It’s over the top. It has an almost mullet clad Ryan Reynolds. More importantly, I think it has some intrinsic value. I know it sounds silly for a movie I fell in love with in the eighth grade to be applicable a decade later (by the way,…