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I Gave Up Online Shopping for Lent This Year (Sort Of)
With Easter just in the review mirror, I’m admittedly relieved that the season of Lent has passed. This year, I attempted to give up online shopping. I didn’t completely fail, but I didn’t completely succeed, either. FYI, Lent is the six weeks leading up to Easter that symbolize the forty days Jesus spent in the…
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Life as a Middle Eastern Woman in Literature
Last year, I read The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, and this year, I read A Thousand Splendid Suns and Persepolis. These literary works have given me a window into the lives of women who lived in middle eastern countries around the late 20th century. In the first book I mentioned, journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon recounts…
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A Ranty Pep-Talk on Combating “Blogger’s Block”
This has certainly been a thing since writers of all walks of life first created their own corners on the world wide web and began producing regular, bite-sized articles called “blog posts.” But, in the last couple months, *multiple* bloggers I follow have lamented their struggle to open a new, blank post and simply write.…
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Complaining About Cold Weather as a Disabled Person
Dealing with a disability is always hard in some ways. But surviving winter seems to take it all to another plain of misery (partially saying that for dramatic flair, but partially serious). First off, the cold exasperates achy joints. Cold AND rainy? Ugh! My seven-year-old knee injury isn’t letting go of her grudge any time…
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The Making of a Neat Freak: Maturity, Priorities, a Pandemic & a Progressive Disability
For most of my life, I didn’t care about organization and cleanliness. In fact, when I come across an old ‘bathroom mirror selfie,’ I cringe at the disarray on the shelves behind me. I was the typical teenager whose room was usually a mess, and wiping dust off things? Forget it! Every surface was cluttered.…