Category: Personal
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In Transit Again
Except this time I will be moving homes and changing my last name. In less than a month, I will be married. We’ve been together for the last eleven years, but we’ve known each other for thirteen. We were engaged at the end of 2018 when the world was much easier to navigate through (of […]
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Challenging My Body
More than a month ago, I embarked on a journey I had always been too lazy to take. I had all the excuses in the world and I whined about the past failed attempts – that despite how hard I worked, nothing came out of my efforts. I’m talking about my body. And it’s not […]
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The Climb to Thirty
In a few weeks, I’ll be turning thirty. It’s not a big deal – at least I know it shouldn’t be, but I can’t help but fixate on the fact that I will be thirty. I will have lived thirty whole years on this earth! It is surreal. And it does feel like a big […]
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The Stubbornness of Good People
As human beings, we have the right to many things – the right to a home, the right to a nationality, the right to be defended in court…and the list goes on. The United Nations General Assembly made sure of it after World War II and the atrocities committed against millions of Jews in the Holocaust. Signed by 48 members of the United Nations on December 10, 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains 30 articles affirming the “inherent dignity and the equality and inalienable rights of all the human family.”
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A List of Aches and Temporary Ailments
Following a list of daily writing prompts for April to push myself to write more and this piece is for “Ache”. What are the parts of me that hurt? Let me count them for you. Yesterday I woke up with a stabbing pain in my lower back – the result of sit-ups done incorrectly. But […]
Trish in Transit 