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April 2024
Spring time in New England means blustery winds that still smell like a hint of snow, cold rainy mornings that turn into sun warmed afternoons, bright blooms of irises and daffodils and hyacinths glowing against still barren trees and the new green of just sprouted grass. Needing a light down jacket just in case the…
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The casual homophobia of my period tracking app
I have PCOS, which means my cycles are incredibly irregular. I’ve gone years without a period and months when I’ve had 2 in 4 weeks. As you might assume, this makes figuring out when I’m going to have my period a bit difficult. I started tracking my cycles last year when I got off birth…
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Iceland 2024
A country of contradictions where volcanoes slumber under ancient glaciers, where water laps at ice and cascades down mountains made of ash. Where danger lurks behind every wonder and wonder fills you at every turn. Where the darkness of the night is filled with colors from the sun and the weather can turn from moment…
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The Joy of Attending a Bat Mitzvah as an Adult
Last weekend, I attended my cousin’s daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in New Jersey and it was a spiritual experience, in more ways than one. I have attended probably close to 70 or 80 Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at this point in my life: friends and family, friends of the family, classmates, cousins, my siblings, siblings of…
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Embracing My Mess
For most of my 20’s, I was stuck in a dating cycle. Trying to navigate life, let alone dating, with multiple chronic pain conditions, undiagnosed ADHD and undertreated depression and anxiety left me a strange mix of both hyper independent and also incredibly vulnerable.
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August- September 2023
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The Body in Pain is a Wild Thing
When I was 13, I began a war against my body. It decided to grow taller and wider and rounder than any of the other kids in my class. Like many of this age, I hated even the idea of standing out. I thought: if I couldn’t be shorter, maybe I could collapse into myself…
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Kicking the Bucket
When I was 17, in a fit of truly 17 year old angst about how I had lived such a sheltered life, I made a bucket list, a declaration that my life, in the future, would not continue to be this small
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When Life Gives You a Lemon…
As I sat in the doctor’s office dressed in nothing but a well washed hospital gown, the paper on the exam chair crinkling under my thighs, I gazed at the pictures of my organs the doctor was clicking through on the computer screen and thought about how, 9 years ago, another gynecologist in a different…
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England 2023
Sarah Levine 