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I’m Just a Girl
If I could choose again, I would choose to be a girl. In every lifetime. I would choose girlhood— not because it is easy, and certainly not because being a woman has ever been easy, but because there is something about being a girl that feels like a kind of magic. I would choose the…
The Story You Tell
People don’t just react to what happened. They react to the story they told themselves about what happened. And those are rarely the same thing. Someone doesn’t text back. A friend cancels. A coworker forgets your name in the meeting. A partner grows quiet. There is always a gap between what happened and what it…
Dear America
Dear America, I have spent a long time trying to decide whether I loved you. Not your flag.Not your politicians.Not your headlines. You. The impossible promise of you. I loved the version of you that told children they could become more than where they started. The version that believed ideas mattered more than bloodlines. The…
Champagne is Just Ginger Ale That Knows Somebody
I’ve become convinced that confidence is one of the most persuasive illusions in the world. Not because confident people are always right. Because the rest of us assume they are. Walk into a room apologizing for yourself and people start looking for reasons to doubt you. Walk into that same room acting like you belong…
Don’t Try This at Home
One of the strangest things about modern life is how often we watch other people live instead of participating in our own lives while they’re happening. Not intentionally or in some dramatic, dystopian way. Just quietly. Constantly. A few minutes here. A scroll there. A woman renovating a cottage in the countryside.A man making espresso…
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