I Am Tired of Every Hobby Needing to Become Content
I am tired of every hobby needing to become content. Somewhere along the way, it stopped being enough to enjoy making something. If you write, you…
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What Chronic Illness Does to Your Sense of Time
Chronic illness and sense of time are deeply connected in ways that are hard to explain until your life starts getting measured in appointments, symptoms, test…
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.…
Eight Years of “It’s Anxiety” Changes the Way You Trust Doctors
Medical trauma from being dismissed by doctors does not always come from one terrible hospital visit. Sometimes it builds slowly, appointment after appointment, every time you…
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…
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…
The Internet Keeps Telling Me to Pick a Niche. My Life Would Like a Word.
The internet loves to tell creators to pick a niche. Preferably, it should be so specific that an algorithm can look at you and immediately decide…
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…