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Day 28: The Keeping Your Sh*t Together Award
For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now. To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post. Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina. Please check out my fundraiser here and if…
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Day 20: The Day I Became a Catholic Buddhist
For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now. To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post. Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina. Please check out my fundraiser here and if…
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Day 18: The Day I Freed the Horses

For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now. To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post. Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina. Please check out my fundraiser here and if…
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Day 15: The Last Day of the Camino
For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now. To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post. Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina. Please check out my fundraiser here and if…
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Day 13: Thirty Lessons Learned Between 20 and 30
For the final 30 days of my twenties, I am writing one personal narrative a day that has impacted my life until now. To read more about my challenge, feel free to check out the first post. Also, this 30 Day challenge is also to support a wonderful charity, Zara Aina. Please check out my fundraiser here and if…
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How Diane Lane Narrating My Life Became This Blog
Little Thoughts on Finding Your Writing Voice I’ve been in career mode recently. I love when my brain lets me go there. I have these occasional waves of motivation, usually timed with the changing of the seasons. Fall is a big one for me. I want to fill my house with pumpkin smells, wrap up…
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A Note on Vulnerability
Last night Ben and I used a gift certificate to a fancy restaurant around the corner. It’s BYOB, and though I haven’t been drinking this month, I figured the glorious food was worth pairing with wine. But to say the least, after 4 solid gulps of Chardonnay, I was having a time. Not drinking for…
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Finding Your January Beach
It is very chilly today in North Jersey and something funky is going on with our heat. And by something funky I mean it isn’t turning on. Fortunately, because it’s a super old house, the pipes that heat my upstairs neighbors run through our floor, and since those are incredibly hot, they warm our apartment at…
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The Day My Large Eyebrows Came Back Into Style
My eyebrow relationship has been a bumpy uphill battle. It began around sixth grade when I was alerted that “No, my eye brows were not actually supposed to meet in the middle. ” It was the dreaded year I also learned about dressing “in fashion,” understanding makeup (and since it was the 90’s — this…
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The Benefits of Being a Multi-Artist
Feeling artistically stagnant and starved is something I didn’t understand when I was little. If I was in a grouchy mood for days at a time, I was often told, “You just need a show!” But I didn’t truly understand the validity of this until my twenties. I did legitimately need to do something artistic, to…