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Softness: a Yearning
18 years. Countless, often overlapping roles. Sleepless nights. Fatigue & despair. I ache and ache and ache. Young bones carrying a soul that feels broken. It makes no sense. Your 30s are when you’re supposed to have it together. All I feel is an incessant dread and anxiety that continues…
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Top Media
Documenting the things I love to watch, in no particular order: Everything I love ends, which is distressing. Fortunately, we live in the age of streaming and I can (& have) re-watched over & over again. Coping mechanisms & all. There is certainly a commonality between all these shows, and…
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Visa Turmoil
PSA to all: double, triple, SEPTUPLE check the instructions. My hubris is that I gave a cursory glance over the visa application and necessary requirements and thought I had everything under control. To move to Spain, the most important part of what I should have done was start the FBI…
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Pear Chin
Pear chin. Dimpled chin. Strong chin. Butt chin. All my life, folks have poked fun at me for my butt chin. That centered inverted dip that closes off the oval of my face. I didn’t know any other way to refer to it, so that terminology become part of how…
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Going Yonder
A dream realized. I will be making my way across the ocean to live abroad. I have yearned for international life since I was young, reading about faraway places. Then, when I first was able to experience international travel, and experience life in countries that at least valued whether their…
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Hey. What’s up. Hello.
I do not know what I’m doing. I have no idea, and I feel like the older I get, the less I know. My hope is that this will serve as a way for me to grow comfortable with the unknown, and welcome it. I have spent decades of my…