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Five Minutes Peace

June 20, 2014

Wonderful happenings have been occurring left and right. Best friends’ weddings, amazing traveling adventures, dream opportunities. Gratitude has been abuzz and a-plentiful. Ideas and inspiration were flowing faster than my ability to record them. That’s why I was surprised when recently, I hit a wall: the I-just-want-to-binge-watch-tv-and-eat-cookies wall. It didn’t seem fueled by the familiar culprits of exhaustion and overwhelm, and since I eat cookies often, it didn’t seem fueled by a sugar craving (or crash). I couldn’t understand the…

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Are You Talking to Yourself?

June 4, 2014

I’ve lived alone for almost four years. There’s nothing like alone time as your default to really get to know yourself. There have definitely been solo dance parties, tireless scrub the floor at midnight extravaganzas, and stretches of time that were both eerily and nourishingly silent. Some days, I would go to the market around noon and when the person at the checkout counter would ask how my day was going, my voice would get caught in my throat because it was…

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