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I’m not going to write about what the pandemic took from me. It took so much from all of us.
To write about what we have lost is like trying to catch a waterfall. Your hands can only hold so much.
But I’d be a liar if I said the pandemic didn’t give to us.
The coronavirus just smashed down a big ruler on society’s desk and yelled like a mean old schoolteaching nun, “PAY ATTENTION!”
For the past 6 months, I’ve had two bottles of lotion on my bathroom counter: one is called Happiness and one is called Comfort. Each day of these last 6 …
Oh, we love to measure ourselves. Against other people we know. Against us. Against people we’ve never met and never will meet. That’s kind of whacked but it’s what we …
Nothing prepares you for death, not really. No book no words no people no tests no support group. You aren’t fully prepared by the living or the dying, and certainly …
Oh sweet Jesus, I’m tired of the boxes they try to put me in. And the boxes I try to put me in. Athlete Intellectual Mother Veteran Woman Writer Boxboxboxboxboxfuckingbox. …
I am a walking collection of coping mechanisms. We all are. Not one of us gets through life in a inviolate state. It just seems that way as we watch …
Because someone should say it, I will. To all the good guys out there, feeling slammed lately in our society, I just want to say this: I love you. ❤️ I …
I stare back at everyone now. If you lock your eyes on me in a public place, I don’t look away anymore. I used to look away. We all know …
Pain is always stronger than whiskey. It’s stronger than the barbell, too. And the dumbbell and the treadmill and the trail and the bike and yoga and every way you …