Every year around this time, there’s a musical inevitability. Like gravity. Like glitter in your coat pockets until March. Mariah Carey arrives. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is basically the holiday’s emotional North Star. Thirty years old, somehow ageless, both nostalgic and aggressively modern. The moment […]
I love the holidays. I love this season. I love the lights, the warmth, the collective permission to be softer and louder at the same time. I love joy. I love giving. I love finding the gift. The one that says “I see you” without requiring a long […]
What is something others do that sparks your admiration? I’ll admit something mildly scandalous (in the psychological sense, not the TMZ sense). I am deeply, profoundly envious of people who are oblivious. Yes, the blissfully unbothered, the cheerfully unaware, the folks who stroll through life as if chaos […]
I have a confession that would make any dermatologist sigh deeply: I do not care for the cold. Actually, let’s be real. I straight-up wage war with the cold. When that first icy breeze hits in November, my skin immediately files an HR complaint. I get hives. Rashes. […]
This past week has felt like an emotional battery warning blinking at 5%. Everyone I’ve talked to from friends, coworkers, to random commuters with dead eyes clutching coffee cups have been saying the same thing: “I’m so drained.” It’s become the week’s unofficial mantra, right up there with […]
It’s that time of year again when I start buying gifts for others and, inevitably, start thinking, “But what about me?” Now, before you roll your eyes and mutter “consumerism at its finest,” hear me out. I’m a firm believer in the sacred ritual of self-gifting. Some people […]
There’s something oddly humbling about thunder. You can be mid-sentence, mid-bite of your overpriced salad, or mid-scroll of your phone, and then BOOM! Mother Nature drops the mic. It’s the kind of sound that doesn’t ask for your attention, it demands it. Lately, though, thunder hasn’t just been […]
The first crack of thundersends one dog scurryingtiny paws, frantic heart,vanishing beneath the coverslike a secret we pretend not to keep. Rain taps at the shutterslike a memoryI haven’t quite made yet.The kind that lives in muscle and moodbefore it ever finds words. The leaves sway lush, green,resilient […]
You ever walk through soup? Not metaphorically. I mean real, breathable soup. That was me today on my way home. Dragging my legs like they were filled with lead and regret through the thickest, heaviest air this side of a pressure cooker. The kind of air that slaps […]
Here’s my Tuesday truth: my brain is soup. Not a bisque. Not even a nice gazpacho. Actually, I don’t like gazpacho. But that’s besides the point. Back to the point at hand. My brain on soup. Just lukewarm, slightly over-salted cognitive broth simmering under this June sun. It’s […]
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