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Emotional bodybuilding 🏋️‍♀️
I lost, so I forced a laugh. Instead of a red- hot rage or flush of self-hatred, I squeezed my stomach and wheezed a little chuckle. Each ha got easier…
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What if it ends? 🔚
Not starting for fear of an ending isn’t self-protection. Ends are inevitable, beginnings are not. I wrote this back in November of 2020 when I was…
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On a porch somewhere 🌅
“Where am I the happiest?” I wrote, like it was a trick question. On a patio overlooking practically anything, I answered without hesitation. Funny…
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Wishes for a Thursday 🌅
I hope you are rested, I hope you are wrapped in a robe of fuzzy self- forgiveness. I hope there is a delightful to-do still to be done, and that a…
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A sweet prescription 🌞
Something soft, a squishy schedule, and a dose of “no” fill the soul like sunshine. I just finished writing a draft of a story about my “blankie,” and…
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Stalled out ⚙️
It stalled out again and again. My dad, patient, waved the cars behind me around us. I swore by then I’d broken the manual transmission, certain I’d…
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The ol' switcheroo 🪑
An IKEA table topped with a Mexican blanket our friends bought us at a desert gas station. Four wooden chairs, flaccid and creaking with age, scooched…
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Notes To Self
Notes to Self is on hiatus! Reminders, advice, and stories for myself in free verse. Sent daily and kept short, so you and I can read together over coffee. ✨

Notes To Self

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