Category: personal essay
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I Am Sorry
A note from our writer, Luna Martha: So this is actually what I wish I had said to my mom. Letters hidden in my heart. Every sorry is bound to free my soul from the guilt inside my heart. # 1 Sorry for not being the daughter you expected me to be. Instead of acting…
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Keep Your Best Friend
When I was a child, I had a friend who was so beautiful, with red hair and big eyes. She also had a smile that was so beautiful. We were really happy. We were living next to each other, always playing together and going to the same school, but sometimes she was annoying before we…
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Love, With Miles Between Us
Little did I know I would fall in love with a person from the opposite side of the planet. Long-distance love isn’t just about the cinematic tropes we see on our devices, always sun-lit and reunions and smiles. More often, it is late-night calls where one is just waking up to start the day, and…
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Birthdays & Winter Ramblings
Birthdays are only celebrated once a year, and my birthday is on January 22nd, which means there is a slight chance each year that it might snow on or near my birthday. When I was a kid, I loved it when it snowed on my birthday because that meant school would be closed or we…
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The Age Of Social Media
I have such a love/hate relationship with all social media. While I can appreciate that it led my sister to find me and gave us the ability to form a strong friendship, or how the high school friends can so easily stay connected, and how the long-distance family can stay in touch a bit easier…
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My First Christmas!
There are moments in life that arrive quietly, yet change us forever. My first Christmas is one of those moments—bright, unexpected, and filled with a kind of warmth I didn’t know I needed. Growing up, Christmas was always something that belonged to other people. I saw it through windows, through stories, through the excitement of…
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The Path You Need To Be On
Image Source: Unsplash- Katie Drazdauskaite One of my favorite phrases to remind single people when navigating the dating scene is, “It’s only creepy if it isn’t mutual.” I will stand tall on this hill every single day for the rest of my life. I have yet to find evidence that states otherwise. It’s quite common…
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Holidays & Christmas Ramblings
Image Source: Unsplash- Tatjana Dimovska Christmas for me, when I was a little girl, always felt magical because I loved going to the Ohio Valley Mall to visit Santa Claus every year. There was just something magical about seeing a fat old guy in a red suit with a big white beard that made the…
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The House By The Loch Our Writing Retreat
Image Credit: Unsplash- Gary Ellis The whole year, I had been looking forward to my Scottish getaway; it wasn’t a normal trip touring areas of Scotland. No! this trip took me right up to Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A 30-minute drive from the airport, the house by the loch took us away from civilization,…
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It’s That Time Of Year
Image Source: Pexels- Enrico Perini Happy December! Can you believe it’s the last month of the year? Where did the time go? In Arizona, we have the cooler weather–not so hot and not freezing cold. Both discussions and more pop up as any conversation starter while those gather together to share as Christmas approaches and…