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  • Ctrl + Delete: Decluttering Life and Letting Go

    Decluttering isn’t just tidying up. It’s about reclaiming space-for growth, for joy, for the person you’re becoming.

  • Whichever Comes First

    Perhaps my mission is provisional: live well, laugh at the absurdity, and keep questioning-even the idea of having a mission. What’s yours?

  • False Choice

    False Choice

    The trick, perhaps, is to live a novel-length life with a poet’s intensity. To stretch time wide enough to hold all your gifts, but to inhabit it with the urgency of poetry.

  • Not One But Two

    Not One But Two

    Ah, the quest for positive male influences! I grappled with finding one noteworthy man who’s not also a disappointment. Eventually, I settled on two: Dad, the calming, laughter-loving anchor, and my child’s father, who, despite being a mystery, gifted me an extraordinary daughter. Talk about mixed reviews!

  • Picture That!

    Well, I’m older-that’s for sure. Did I picture this? Honestly, I don’t remember what I thought life would look like back then. I was just cruising, grateful to be alive and doing my best in keeping my daughter alive. I thought I’d be in a healthier relationship, maybe even with the same person. Instead, I…

  • Seven Laws, One Reader, Many Lessons

    My Honest Reflections on The Seven Spiritual Laws–Deepak Chopra I just finished reading The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success — a book almost as old as I am, yet somehow one I only stumbled upon recently. And while not everything in it was new (thank you to the many self‑help books that came before), Deepak…

  • Three Cities, Three Selves

    Every other year, “travel more” somehow sneaks its way onto my resolutions list. You’d think by now I’d have a ready-made list of cities I dream about. But I don’t. Maybe I don’t actually want to travel; maybe I just want to want to travel. There’s a difference. Part of the problem is that I’ve…

  • Firsts Unlocked

    As an adult‑ish human, I’ve had my fair share of “firsts”—school, work, friendships, heartbreaks, and more. Most of them were exciting, some terrifying, and all eventually faded into memory. But there’s one first that has never lost its shine: becoming a mom. It wasn’t the best first in the traditional sense—it hurt like hell. But…

  • Doing It Afraid: My First Speech Experience

    Oh, this takes me back. I can’t help but smile. I never quite made it to the stage level, but I did give a speech once-at a public speaking competition-and I won. I even got a certificate for it. The funny part? I hadn’t signed up myself. My former English teacher believed I could do…

  • Admire….Unfollow.

    Whatever they want. You would think that with all the advancements we have made-technology, education, progress- that being ourselves and doing what we want would be the least of our problems. That we’d have conquered that already. But we have not. Too many of us have been so institutionalized that we lost the will and…