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On Friday, I wandered into Barnes and Noble and remembered something I didnāt even know Iād forgotten. The glee. The sensory joy of touching the spine...
Have you ever spent time with optical illusions, Kindred?
Two faces that might also be a vase?
A rabbit that might be a duck?
A Mordechai that might be...
I canāt be the only one feeling it this week. Right?
You knowā¦Ā it.
The endlessness of the longest days of the year. The heat. The lack of rhythm.
The...
Girl Math
girl math /ĖÉ”ÉĖrl mæθ/
(noun)
Informal, humorous
Definition: A playful, slightly unhinged system of accounting used primarily by women t...
CuĀ·rate
/ĖkyoĶoĖrÄt/
verb
- 1. select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition):
I never really know what Iām going to...
Iām a talker,
Except when my whole nervous system is flooded and I find myself choosing silence over trying and failing to capture what Iām really fe...
Itās happening!
We havenāt evenĀ startedĀ Azamra yet and Iām already in that canāt-sleep, weird-dreams, slightly-sweaty-but-glowing state. Delirious wi...
For every mom who saw it coming....Ā Happy whatever you want to call this day Kindred.
You ever had one of those moments with your kid?
The moment of t...
Esther messaged me last night after reading through theĀ Azamra landing page:
WOW. I wish I could do this. Iām just not ready yet. But iyH one day. Iā...
So apparently I run a cult now.
It seems that when you stop offering unlimited access to every person who emails, texts, or wants to āpick your brain...
Last night at bedtime, my son Deeds (three years old,Ā mischief maker and part-time prophet) hit me with a line:
āSo dragons make fire, yeah?ā
āYeah.ā
H...
IāmĀ notĀ aĀ noĀ person,
Feel me?
Iām the eternal people pleaser. The one who always wants to find a way to say yes.
They make up idioms about people like ...