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#200.
Last week, I wrote about not letting a number tell you how to feel.
This week, I’d like to take that all back.
I’m sitting here staring at the top left corner of my google doc, the cobalt blue icon’s jaunty top right corner folded over. F...
#199: 58.
I spent my 58th birthday alone, just like I’d planned.
Since I was a kid, my birthday always felt like an inside job. My mom would wake me up with a tray loaded with pancakes, orange juice, and a dainty vase and flower. And then she’d leav...
#198: Hamburger costumes.
My job as a volunteer counselor wasn’t complicated, because grief camp isn’t complicated. What we mostly do is play. Gaga ball, basketball, soccer. We zip line. We kayak. We tie dye. We compete in relay races and lip sync battles and scaven...
What makes our houses feel like home.
Dear reader -
I’m taking my newfound freedom and my broken-potato-chip brain to the Rockies for some R&R. I’ll watch the aspen leaves turn while giving my day pack and hiking shoes a pilgrim-esque workout.
In lieu of a new post, I’m shari...
#197: Letting go.
How do you know when to let something go?
Letting things go without having a say — more highway robbery than baton-passing — takes up chapter after chapter of my story. This includes my moves as a kid all the way up to the empty nest, with...
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