Category: Life
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Love Has No Weight, Unlike His Head
One night, just before we went to sleep, my husband put his head on me. He was teasing me, so he didn’t exactly put it down gently. He just dropped his head on me and stayed there. “That’s heavy,” I said. “That’s love,” he replied. Cute. But also, my neck was hurting. I laughed, but…
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I chose Mine, You have Yours.
A couple of weeks ago, I spent almost two hours arguing with the manager of a fast-food restaurant over a few missing burgers. It all started innocently enough. I was planning to pick up dinner myself, but when I opened the restaurant’s app, I noticed they had started offering delivery in our area. I thought…
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No One to Blame but Me
Sometimes, the biggest obstacle isn’t the lack of time or inspiration. It’s the quiet expectation we place on ourselves without even noticing. This is the story of how an ordinary conversation with my daughter helped me see why I had stopped writing—and why I finally opened my laptop again.
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The invisible career of motherhood
What is your career plan? I stopped asking myself those questions when I decided to have children. Not because I threw my life away, but because I understood that raising children was already a long-term project. A project that would require almost all of my energy, attention, patience, organization, and emotional availability for many years.…
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ON : A Silent Impact
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? Do you have a quote you come back to, without even realizing it? I do. Not just one, actually, many. They’ve been quietly placed along the way, often by people close to me. When I was younger, my father would say,…
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Not All Tiredness Sleeps Away
How do you unwind after a demanding day? Or simply… how do I recharge when the day has taken everything from me? For me, not all tiredness feels the same. I see it in two ways: physical and mental. Physical exhaustion is the easier one to handle.A hot shower or a warm bath usually does…
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ON : Happiness…
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? Do we really need something to be happy? It sounds like a simple question, but the more I sit with it, the more it makes me pause. Because when I look at my days, they are never perfectly arranged. There are always small interruptions, small delays,…
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Slightly Out of Place
It started like any ordinary day. I put a load of laundry into the washing machine and went back to the kitchen to prepare lunch. Nothing special, just the quiet rhythm of the house moving around me. The machine was set to a sports cycle, about an hour, so I let it run without thinking…
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ON : The work I would do anyway.
What job would you do for free? Before answering, it helps to pause on the word job. A job, by definition, is something we are paid to do. So if we take away the payment, what remains is simply work we choose to give, freely, and often more intentionally. If I reframe the question that…
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The Quiet Week
Not every week gives you something to write about. Some pass quietly, without asking for attention. This was one of them. My husband was away on a business trip, so the rhythm of the house shifted a little. I drove my son back and forth between school and his hockey training, the same roads, the…