“How strange: to land in the second part of your life, without even having lived its first.” – Trivarna Hariharan Life is weird. Everything is so weird all the time. I think about how weird my life is every time my dad helps me in and out of my wheelchair at the doctor’s office, andContinue reading “May 19, 2025”
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February 20, 2025
“I’m in pain because the day is ending and I am somehow never healing.” – Anne Sexton My entire experience of life has been altered in the most twisted way by being ill. It’s compressing and suffocating and painful. People will be ruthless with you – with your body, with your health, with their words.Continue reading “February 20, 2025”
February 22, 2024
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.” – Sylvia Plath I turn 25 tomorrow. It’s a milestone birthday of sorts, I guess. A quarter of a century. Something I would have considered monumental and exciting – a call for celebration. But instead of it being a joyful, celebratory day, it nowContinue reading “February 22, 2024”
October 20, 2023
“I’m searching for a phrase that will release everything that’s pent up in me.” – Henry Miller I’m so resentful of this life. I don’t even think to call this a life would be fair. I just don’t think humans were built for this kind of suffering. I wasn’t. And yet, it’s all that IContinue reading “October 20, 2023”
September 26, 2021
I think I’m taking this whole stream of consciousness thing too seriously – my mind works faster than my fingers, so I couldn’t keep up with my thoughts today, but I was writing a lot. I read it back just to make sure it made sense, and I was so caught up in writing thatContinue reading “September 26, 2021”
The Elephant in the Room 