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Using Your Single Years to Prepare for Motherhood
From the time that you were a little girl playing with your baby dolls, you have dreamed of being a mother. Yet here you are in your 20’s or 30’s, still single, and still with the same desire to nurture a tiny human. What is a girl to do with that desire? Society prepares us…
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How I Read Over 60 Books in 2024
What’s the first thing that you think of when it comes to reading? Do you envision squinting at tiny print, struggling to make out the complicated words staring up at you? Or do you see a nerdy bookworm spending all day in the library? I have always been an avid reader, but had never set…
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Resisting Hustle Culture
I’ve been telling everyone that I’m in my “grandma era” as of late. Many nights I want to be in my cozy pajamas, in bed at 9:30 with a cup of chamomile tea and a good book in hand. I’m in my mid-20’s, and even though I don’t feel very old, I have had a…
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You Are What You Wear
It’s 6:15. You have 10 minutes to get ready to meet your friend for dinner. Your first instinct might not be to throw on a dress when you can just as easily put on a t-shirt and shorts. While maintaining the image of perfection is not necessary, wearing clothes meant for just the gym has…
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What Time Is It?
Your alarm goes off as you hit snooze for the thousandth time and roll over in bed. “How is it Monday morning again?” you groan to yourself. Maybe it’s just me who struggles to get going in the morning and is in shock that the weekend went by so quickly. I sometimes feel as if…
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Is Life Meaningless?
Do you ever wonder if anything you do has any impact? Do you ever go to work day after day and from one social activity to another and wonder “what is the point?” Do you ever get to the end of a long, busy day and sigh, wondering if you actually did accomplish anything of…
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My Story
Everyone has a “story.” To some people it may mean describing where they grew up, their family background, where they went to school, their passions in life, or their biggest fears. I’m sure most of you have at one point been asked this question in an interview: “Tell me about yourself.” I don’t know about…
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Why Start a Blog?
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve loved to read and write. Grammar and English were always my strongest subjects, which is rather ironic considering I now work in finance. I had an active imagination as a child and loved to dream up silly stories, including one that I vividly remember writing about a…