Yes, it might actually be that damn phone. Journaling, Very Literally Journals are (I think) supposed to be a place for yourself to collect your thoughts. Whatever lies heavy on your chest, whatever you can’t/don’t want to share with others, or just a random thoughts dump. I feel like it turned into us interviewing ourselvesContinueContinue reading “Journaling in the Time of Social Media”
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Lamentations of your unemployed friend in their twenties (excerpt from my diary)
My phone storage is full. I need to get my life together. I don’t have the leverage of being a student with at least some time still to go before I graduate to decide what’s next. There is no safety in a structure or a schedule that university life would set for me, where IContinueContinue reading “Lamentations of your unemployed friend in their twenties (excerpt from my diary)”
ROMANTISIZING SUMMER 2025: When Life Gives You Tangerines
I’m standing over the sink, washing the glasses, and smiling to myself over the familiarity of the routine summer always sets up for me. The shouting of the orders over the counter, oil sizzling in the kitchen, clicking of the glasses on the bar trays as they are carried through the restaurant, Aneta’s laughter fromContinueContinue reading “ROMANTISIZING SUMMER 2025: When Life Gives You Tangerines”
3 Simple Ways To Take Action
This post includes 3 simple ways to take action and make a difference regarding the genocide in Gaza. Photo by Mike van Schoonderwalt on Pexels.com 3 Simple Ways To Take Action: We Speak With Our Wallets3 Simple Ways To Take Action: Non-Fiction NovemberOn Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan PappéFreedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson,ContinueContinue reading “3 Simple Ways To Take Action”
Tables, Conversations, and Safe Spaces
Are we giving some topics a seat at the table, or is our table just a side table for kids so they don’t bother the grown-ups? That’s how I feel when I talk about mental health for example, or women’s status in society. Does that seat count, and how important is it to have it?ContinueContinue reading “Tables, Conversations, and Safe Spaces”
Grief is a thing with fetters
It’s one day ahead in the calendar, but it was Wednesday last year when I had this weird feeling that I needed to hug my friend when I waved her goodbye as she got on the bus. I don’t usually hug. Not that I don’t like it, it’s just not in my habit. So, anyway,ContinueContinue reading “Grief is a thing with fetters”
World Mental Health Day in my world
Mental health In lights of the World Mental Health Day – that I’m… not late to, because the conversation shouldn’t start and stop on that day – I wanted to share… let’s call it a diary entry, that I wrote in June of this year. I think I’m at that point again, in a way.ContinueContinue reading “World Mental Health Day in my world”
My Little Hawk 