for #NanoPoblano2025
NanoPoblano is the world’s least official November blog challenge. Participants and supporters are called Cheer Peppers. The BIG goal is 30 posts in 30 days. You can share your goal and your progress and your posts on the Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1336744293025187/
Exploring addiction through Buddhist philosophy—the realm of hungry ghosts, craving, and the search for peace in sobriety and creative healing.
Marking a year of journaling, they ponder profound emotions and fleeting beauty, finding solace in the notion that love shapes identity.
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.
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.
A raw and reflective essay on living with Bipolar Disorder while navigating friendship, motherhood, and forgiveness — part of the #NanoPoblano2025 challenge.
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.
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.
Creative nonfiction on trauma, memory, and survival. A raw personal essay about childhood wounds, motherhood, and healing through words.
