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Rest as a radical act
It has taken me years to understand how deeply I’ve internalized the idea that rest must be earned and justified. That any quiet moment in the middle of…
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Somewhere near the end
When your name appeared in my notifications, my heart tightened with an ache I thought I’d outgrown.
Nov 20, 2025
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The Harbor
The bedroom is quiet, the floor cool against my feet, and I have a few stolen minutes before the kids realize I’m upstairs instead of sitting on the…
Oct 26, 2025
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A small corridor of pleasure.
It’s a ten-minute brisk walk to our other building, but I gave myself an extra forty minutes between meetings.
Oct 24, 2025
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It isn’t lost on me.
It’s the first time it’s rained in months.
Oct 24, 2025
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Fate Unknown
I began crying—quietly, helplessly—for them, for every other tragedy happening to mothers and children everywhere, for the reminder that the line…
Oct 7, 2025
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It has to stop with me.
I only know this: she was a woman shadowed by sorrow, and when she left too soon, my mother and I inherited a legacy of grief.
Aug 14, 2025
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Am I just another sad girl?
I have been sitting on a small pile of unpublished drafts for weeks now.
Aug 12, 2025
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At Share or Shelve, I write about love, motherhood, marriage, grief, girlhood, and the books that help me understand the feelings I can’t say aloud. Always with the hope that you’ll see yourself here, too.
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