What’s the hobby you swore you’d pick back up but absolutely never will? Here’s the thing about hobbies you swear you’ll pick back up. They’re lies. Beautiful, optimistic lies you tell yourself while scrolling the internet and pretending your knees still work. Mine is 5K races. I used to lace up shoes, pin on a […]

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So here’s my nightly routine. I lay down, close my eyes, and immediately become a piece of furniture. One girl climbs directly onto my face like it’s a pillow she personally owns. She settles in, breathes directly into my soul, and stays there for hours. Hours. I stop breathing somewhere around minute twelve, but I […]

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What’s the most dramatic exit you’ve made from anything, ever? I don’t want to call it dramatic, because it wasn’t. It was strategic. I got into an argument with one of my supervisors once and in that moment my brain queued up about twelve things I absolutely wanted to say and every single one of […]

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So damn tired!!

I ignored every warning older adults gave me because youth is basically confidence without evidence. Turns out your body remembers everything, jobs will absolutely steal your soul if you let them, and time does not care when you finally get smart. Wrote about it before my knees complained again.

#truth #aging #life #work #writing

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