Raspberry Iced M

Do y’all remember those Sonic commercials in the 2010s?

This one was my favorite. And for 15 years, more or less, it’s been an internal, running joke in my own head.

“Why not raspberry iced “M” or one of the other 48 letters?”

It makes me giggle even now.

(It’s probably not even that funny, but if nothing else, you’re already getting a sense of what I find entertaining, and that will either create followers or trolls. At any rate, welcome!

Let’s look at the characteristics of a raspberry.

Raspberries are considered an “aggregate” fruit, and aggregate means “a whole formed by combining several elements.” Are raspberries complicated? This one is.

Raspberries are plump and are both sweet and tart. And so am I.

They’re versatile – you can put those suckers in jam, pie, smoothies, yogurt, muffins, syrup…and they’ll figure out how to adapt no matter what. Guilty as charged.

And lastly, they’ll spoil and start to stink if you leave them in a hot car for too long. Yep. Me too.

I’m Meg. I live a quiet life with people I love, although I can’t say I’m never the villain in others’ stories.

And rather than carry the guilt or shame associated with those villainous moments, I’m choosing, instead, to start over, and try doing life a different way.

Like the raspberry who tried to be a strawberry her whole life – because they’re more popular, easier to manage, and tend to be a little bit sweeter – I finally realized that it’s okay to be a raspberry anyway.

So follow along as we figure out who I am. I don’t have all of the answers, but at least I’m willing to try to find them.

Keep raspin’…and have a “berry” sweet day!

-Meg