I Would Like One Week Without a Side Quest, Please
I would like one week without a side quest, please. Not a perfect week, because I have realistic expectations and some experience with my own life.…
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Parenting, online schooling, family life, identity, exhaustion, humor, routines, and all the deeply unglamourous parts of raising humans while trying to remain one yourself.
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Labor Day Weekend Was Supposed to Be a Break. My Body Had Other Plans.
Labor Day weekend with chronic illness did not feel much like a three-day break this year. I went into Saturday already feeling bad, with my left…
I Miss Hobbies I Technically Still Have
There is a strange kind of frustration in missing hobbies you still love. Nothing dramatic happened to them. You did not wake up one morning and…
My Oldest Child Is 18, and I Am Not Emotionally Prepared
My Oldest Child Is 18, and I am not emotionally prepared for that sentence. I knew this birthday was coming, obviously. Birthdays tend to follow a…
I Still Call Myself a Gamer Even When I Barely Have Time to Play
Gaming as an adult looks very different from the version of gaming I remember having time for. I still call myself a gamer, although that occasionally…
I Would Practice Self-Care, but Everyone Keeps Asking Me Where Things Are
There is a version of realistic self-care that exists almost entirely on the internet. In that version, you light a candle, take a long bath, put…
Nobody Warns You That Your 30s Might Require a Complete Character Respec
When I pictured my thirties, I thought this was supposed to be the part where everything finally settled down. Apparently, reinventing yourself in your 30s was…
What Online Kindergarten Actually Looks Like in Our House
Before we started online kindergarten at home, I knew I was going to be involved. She is five, so I never expected to hand her a…
I Don’t Have Too Many Interests. I Just Have One Brain and Not Enough Hours
I don’t think having too many interests is actually my problem. I think I have one brain, a completely unreasonable number of ideas, and nowhere near…
Welcome to Narratively Inconvenient: Life Not Going According to Plan
I had a plan. It was not a perfect plan, and it definitely was not one of those color-coded, laminated five-year plans with quarterly goals and…