Creative nonfiction on trauma, memory, and survival. A raw personal essay about childhood wounds, motherhood, and healing through words.
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This piece is a reflection on the challenges of balancing work, family, and personal well-being, particularly when faced with a demanding job. Through personal anecdotes, they recount the stress and eventual realization of needing to prioritize their mental health over work demands, leading to a pivotal moment of change.
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Marking a year of journaling, they ponder profound emotions and fleeting beauty, finding solace in the notion that love shapes identity.
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A raw reflection on exhaustion, motherhood, and the state of our planet. Between parenting, politics, and the weight of global crises, this personal essay explores what it means to keep caring when the world feels like it’s falling apart.
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November 2
In this piece, the author contrasts the frustrations of learning to sew with the deeper struggle of unlearning blind faith after leaving a cult. Through motherhood, she explores resilience, distrust, and the longing to believe again—examining how trauma reshapes the ability to learn, trust, and find meaning in faith.
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November 1
A raw and reflective essay on living with Bipolar Disorder while navigating friendship, motherhood, and forgiveness — part of the #NanoPoblano2025 challenge.
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The Great Wall
A meditation on intimacy, distance, and the quiet unraveling of connection. Between the ache of touch and the silence of separation, this piece drifts through memory, longing, and self-recovery — from the heat of a shared bed to the cold clarity of a Cape Breton night. What begins as the familiar rhythm of two bodies pressed together becomes a reckoning with solitude, desire, and the haunting question of what it means to want again.
09
Sep
Writing as Resistance
I’ve launched a fundraising page for the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), an organization delivering urgent medical care and aid to children in Gaza and across Palestine. I’ve dedicated my two books, Ruptures and Mommy and the Blues, to this fundraiser—every order fuels aid through PCRF and UNRWA. Writing is resistance, but saving children will take all of us.
Free Palestine. Speak truth to power.
18
Aug
Leisure
The author reflects on their fascination with observing the lives of others through windows, expressing a longing to understand human emotions and experiences. They grapple with the disconnect between internal feelings and external perceptions, highlighting the struggle to connect deeply while acknowledging societal norms that inhibit vulnerability and authenticity.