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I’m formally educated, but degrees aren’t everything. I’m a communicator, but my career isn’t everything. I’m a mom of two, but parenthood isn’t everything. They can't be.

Sometimes I wish I could return to the simplicity of elementary school, specifically in the 90’s. No social media skewing my perceptions or squashing my confidence before I even gave myself a chance. No shame in my game.

I have been writing through my feelings forever. Blogging, journaling, and passing notes were my solace as an angsty teenager, an antsy twentysomething, and now an anxious thirtysomething. I know there are others who can relate, but most days, it feels like I'm just shouting into the void. 

I deeply appreciate the bold and the beautiful. And I also want to make space for the mediocre and mundane. These feeds were made for the meaningless, vapid, shallow, and superficial. But now it’s also commonplace to find ugly truths and stuff that’s raw, authentic, vulnerable, or stigmatized. Complete messes are IG-worthy and of course, the carefully curated content is on full display. But I’m concerned with the basic ass, in-between, everyday stuff that takes up majority of our lives.

There was always one thing that would reliably appear on every report card in my grad school days: “excessive talking.”

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