She Left Anyway
At 52, I lost my job and got a cancer diagnosis in the same season. My body and my life asked the same question: what exactly are you waiting for? This is what happened when I stopped pretending the reasons made sense.
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Why Don’t We Do This More Often?
Why don’t we do this more often?
And nobody ever answers. That’s the part I only just noticed, after years of participating in it. It’s phrased as a question, which means somebody is genuinely asking for the reason — and there isn’t one. T...
What Goes in the Boxes
Nobody tells you that packing is an argument.
Not with Rick, not with Garion, not with the calendar. An argument with yourself, box by box, item by item, about who you actually are versus who you’ve been carrying around out of habit.
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Expansion, Not Abandonment
I was at the lake, watching Garion and the other boys throw themselves off the dock like they’d never once considered that gravity might not catch them.
I’d come from an acupuncture appointment, so I was already loose, already quiet, alrea...
My Name Is Becca
To the people who’ve known me longest, I’ve always been Becca.
To almost everyone else, for about thirty years, I was Rebecca Allen.
Rebecca Allen was the board chair. Top five in my field, globally. The clean headshot, the title under th...
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At 52, I lost my job and got a cancer diagnosis in the same season. My body and my life asked the same question: what exactly are you waiting for? This is what happened when I stopped pretending the reasons made sense.
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