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Lessons My Cat Keeps Teaching Me (opens the original)
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Three years ago, my husband decided it was a good idea to move from a big, buzzing city to a quiet little village. I agreed on one condition: we’re finally adopting a cat. That’s how Simba appeared in our lives.I wanted to give someone a sense of family and safety. I wanted to pour all the love I had into one tiny creature and make the world a little better for at least one hopeless soul living in a shelter.I did. Since then, my cat has been living her absolute best life, while I keep learning f
The Writer in My Head (opens the original)
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When I was at school, I sometimes dreamed of becoming a writer. My literature teacher praised my essays, and with all my teenage passion and enthusiasm, I started thinking it meant something.I started writing a book.It was a fantasy novel about a witty and fearless girl. I was writing it by hand in an old notebook with yellow pages because I didn’t have a computer at the time. I spent a few evenings coming up with funny dialogues, metaphors, and plot twists. I knew the names and appearances of m
About My New Haircut (opens the original)
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If you’re a woman, then at least once in your life, after getting your heart broken, you’ve walked into a hair salon and made a terrible decision.You’ll ask for a bob. Or a fringe. If you’re blonde, you’ll suddenly want to go brunette. If you’re brunette, you’ll convince yourself that blonde is the answer.It’s almost a universal law.I’ve been there more than once. I’ve dyed my hair blue, orange, red, and pink. I’ve had a bob, then hair down to my waist, then a bob again. Being a woman is wonderf
Summer Instructions (opens the original)
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I don’t think you’re supposed to tiptoe into summer.Summer asks for something different.It asks you to arrive with your heart wide open on the very first morning of June.To forget, at least for a while, about embarrassment, about whether something is “appropriate,” about what other people might think, and to let yourself live the version of life you’ve been quietly imagining all year.Maybe that looks like sunrise runs and sleepy morning walks.Maybe it’s photographing the sky every evening just b
Living Through Historic Events While Still Doing Laundry (opens the original)
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I sometimes catch myself thinking that I never chose any of this.I’d be perfectly happy living my ordinary, occasionally boring life. Complaining about work, planning vacations months in advance, worrying about whether I’ll finally repaint the kitchen this year. History didn’t have to happen around me.But then I remember something I once read about reincarnation.According to some Eastern beliefs, our souls choose the experiences they need before they’re born. I don’t know whether that’s actually
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