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photo credits: unsplash.com The closer I see motherhood through my friends and now my sister, the more I see that motherhood is nowhere near “settling down”. No one is settling. It is a life many women have the privilege to choose. No one has a down time. Someone said moms never sleep. Something about being responsible for an actual human life keeps your brain awake at all hours of the day. Yes, they may be sleeping but their brains never fully shut down. “Light sleepers” is what they...

2025 was the year I graduated from monthly therapy, finished all my meds, and recovered a semblance of self that didn’t require extreme measures to get up in the morning. I finally went back to the dojo, barely OT-ed, and have friends who have no idea what I do for a living and like me anyway — all without a drop of alcohol. I don’t even look for it anymore. My lovely little life was hard earned. Then, on one sunny afternoon in September, I had the sudden urge to take a flamethrower and blow...

A few weeks ago, the world wept. We wept for women, people of color, the LGBTQIA+ community and every other group that’s neither white...