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This Is Not Advice

Sandy Braz

Essays about love, death, grief, sleep, and Lisbon.

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How I Grieved Motherhood.

Me in the yurt, a year later, last spring.

For five days, in a town in the Algarve, I woke up before the sun so I could cry alone on the porch of a yurt I had rented for a few days. I wanted to grieve about the baby that never was and the...

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How to Summon a Matriarch Before 8am.

I heard yelling inside my apartment coming from the one-way street below. It wasn’t even 8am yet and the daily noise had already begun.

Yelling in my neighbourhood is not uncommon. I live downtown. The summer is when drunk tourists especia...

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How to Get Over Friendship Breakups.

On my road trip through the Algarve.

I was eating lunch on a roadtrip through the Algarve. I ordered a hot dish of periwinkles and rice. My grandfather, from Alentejo, once told me that we eat and drink hot things to neutralize the heat of...

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I Could Not Sleep So I Wrote This For You.

Costa da Caparica, Portugal

This is not advice. No one is the expert in who you are but you. Other people’s projections are often disguised as well-intentioned advice. But unless someone has been through what you are seeking advice about o...

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How To Be Alone.

Paris. June, 2011. Alone.

A Sunday in late June in Paris. 2011.

I am 31 and married but slowly starting to not be into the idea of being attached to anyone.

This fucking scares me. He is a good guy. And everyone tells me that I am lucky....

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    I’m a writer in Lisbon. I have interviewed and observed strangers for 25 years. Nothing I write is advice or even advisable. Essays about love, death, grief, sleep, regrets and Lisbon. Thanks for subscribing.

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