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Under-slept

No, under-slept isn’t really a word.  In fact, every time I type it into a document of any kind with the technology that assures me it

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Doing … and asking

I was blessed with discipline in spades and a passionately fierce willingness to do for myself and not really wait for anybody to get in line

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Water Your Own Grass

The grass is always greener.  We want what we think she has.  We want what we think he can do.  We want somebody else’s results, somebody

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Panic

Oh fuck, my FitBit died.  Like, black hole, can’t resurrect it, can’t tell the time or track my steps.  Its replacement is on its way, but

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The Only One

It’s uncomfortable thinking I am the only one sometimes.  The only one that doesn’t drink.  The only one that doesn’t eat shit.  The only one that

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Falling in Love

Yes, of course, this connects to the obvious: I am falling in love with a man, only in real life and not in theory.  Like, I’m

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Travel

I’m being too healthy?  What does that even mean?  Somebody just said that to me in the elevator after I left the gym.  Somebody else said

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Adulting?

I’m an adult.  I realize I have been an adult, on paper, and by most societal standards, for a long time.  I’m 33.  I’ll be 34

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Start acting

If we want self-esteem, we must do esteemable acts.  If we want to reduce our fear, we must take action and walk through it.  If we

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Snow Days

The mind is seductive.  It’ll pull you in from anywhere, for any reason, at any time.  It’ll convince you that you’re not doing enough, that you’re

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