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My boyfriend and I often joke that we lose one vocabulary word every day. We don't forget them exactly—more like watch them quietly slip out of use and disappear from daily conversation. Words now replaced by vaguer stand-ins, like good, nice, vibe, thing. Entire shades of meaning flattened into convenience. Vocabulary loss isn’t necessarily a …
I'm two weeks into being 31 and already I can tell you that turning 30 was much more exciting than turning 31. Thirty is a milestone, while 31 is just another year. The pressure of being the ideal high-functioning, impeccably balanced adult is a social construct than I refuse to acknowledge, yet why does it …
I got laid off from my corporate job as a content writer three weeks ago. It's a blessing in disguise, really. I'm free from my golden handcuffs, have a regulated nervous system for the first time in 2-plus years, get to rebuild my daily routine from scratch, have more time to pour into my music, …
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You never know what you have until it's gone, right? The COVID-19 pandemic has already taken away a lot of things from a lot of people, and it's not just the freedom to go outside I'm talking about. Everyone is suffering differently. To some people it's just a storm that they're waiting out, but for …
I don't think every 24 going on 25-year old wishes for a mother/daughter trip for their birthday, but that's all I wanted for my quarter of a century celebration. Although it underwent many changes, the initial trip had been planned almost a year in advance. At first we wanted to do a Boston getaway, but …
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