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There are Few Things more Horrifying to Me than Living a Long, Long Life.

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After Great Expansion comes Unexpected Contraction.

Warning: Adult language ahead. Proceed at your own discretion ; ) ~ ed. In May of this year, I found myself in beautiful San Diego, locked into what I can only describe as one of the most expansive ...
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The Museum of Broken Love: What we Learn from Walking Through our Heartbreak.

Some losses do not leave. They collect themselves into rooms, hang themselves on walls, and wait for you to walk in and recognise them. There is a museum in Zagreb, Croatia, called the Museum of ...
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For The Men who are Too Afraid to Open Their Hearts: It’s Not Your Fault.

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We are Running out of Excuses as Men.

I wrote the first half of this poem years ago, on a hundred-mile run I was training for in support of a domestic violence charity. It sat in my notes for years, unfinished until this weekend. I ...
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The Last First Day: What my Son Starting Preschool Taught me about Letting Go.

There is something different about doing something for the last time. Today, my youngest started preschool. Five years ago when my daughter started school, everything was new. She was my first and ...
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I Got So Good at Healing Myself, I Forgot I was Allowed to Be Pissed Off.

Sometimes those were exactly the right questions. The trouble was that I got so good at examining my reactions that I stopped considering the possibility that some of them were reasonable. I could ...
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Are We Shaped by the Places We Come From or by the Lives We Choose to Create?

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The Story is Not Over: Choosing Humanity over Hatred Matters.

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I Stayed because Leaving felt Impossible. Until Now—Until I was Pushed too Far.

I was on the floor, sobbing, my daughter crying next to me. That was the moment the marriage ended, in my mind at least. For over a decade, I’ve lived in tune with the rhythms of the Sacred Mayan ...
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I Had a Meltdown at School Pickup: The Mental Load & the Unsaid Expectations are Real—it’s Time We had this Conversation.

I got a phone call from my son’s school to pick him up. As I arrived at school to pick up my kid, I had a clue that my kid was not really sick. I saw it was the colour fun run—a day where kids run ...