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Unboxing Challenge — Day 6: My “Baby” Cat!
Everybody has the sweetest cat in the world. So do I! Here’s my uncommon tribute: When she was a kitten, I adopted her BECAUSE she was so visibly ill. My ex and I had intended …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 5: Readers
Back in 2011, various people were telling me that aspiring writers need an online presence and that Tumblr was the way to go. I started off just posting inspirational quotes or other reblogs, with …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 4: Memory
I just spent this afternoon, for the first time in nearly three years, in one of my old bedrooms, on my old bed, both of which have belonged to a succession of someone-elses over time, yet …
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Unboxing Challenge — Day 3: Living in Berlin
Wrote this a few mornings ago, but it’s a suitable follow-up to yesterday’s neighborhood-inspired post. This one, now, is about why I love this city on an even broader and deeper level. Frankly, what Berlin …
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Unboxing Challenge: Day 2 — Literary Mind
My middle school goal had been to become a screenwriter, but somewhere in my junior year of high school, a Spanish teacher stopped me after class to ask if I’d ever considered majoring in …
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Unboxing Challenge: Day 1 — Sex Hair!
Unboxing Challenge: Day 1 — Sex Hair! It took me ’til well into my 20s to embrace my natural hair texture. I grew up longing for shiny, sleek hair, because I’d internalized the nonsensical idea …
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Introducing the Unboxing Challenge!
Ready to Unbox Yourself? “Whoever the essence of us is — we are born, we are all individual, we are all unique, and we are supposed to be that exact person. We’re not supposed to …
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Unboxing Challenge: Unbox Your Divine Gifts — A Meditation
“The universe is prodigal in its support. We are miserly in what we accept. All gift horses are looked in the mouth and usually returned to sender. We say we are scared by failure, …
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(Self-)Love Across Lifetimes
Maybe-strange but true: there’s a young woman I kept seeing in dreams and meditations for several years, and I eventually deduced that she was a WWII-era, past-life version of me. I have gathered …
Hope Against All Odds: The Miracle of the Gems
This story isn’t mine; I read it in a memoir several years ago, but I want to share it because it holds some powerful lessons for all of us, and it has left a powerful …