I Have No Maternal Instinct. Is That So Wrong? 👶

“I think the idea of having kids is pushed a bit too much on us. People will ask you and your partner if you’re going to have kids and it’s not really anyone’s business. Just asking someone doesn’t hurt, but if it’s pressuring, that’s not okay, because it does boil down to what the person actually wants in their life.”

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I’m 38 Years Old and Secretly Obsessed With a Dead Musician 🎸

“I don’t want to focus too much on Blaze’s many physical attributes, but it’s simply impossible for me to not mention how scrolling through endless photos and pining over him is a form of self-care for me. He makes me feel so unabashedly sensual — these are foreign feelings for someone with deep-rooted intimacy issues. (Thanks, pent-up trauma from my early twenties!)”

Working in Retail Changed How I Saw the World 🌎

“We think of these jobs as ‘starter jobs,’ but for most people I’ve worked with, this job is their career. They get sucked into it like I did, and then you become typecast as someone who can only do retail. Before hiring a professional, I put out hundreds of resumes with no callbacks. People would tell me things like ‘I don’t hire retail workers because you don’t know how to do anything. You’re untrainable.’”

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