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When You Still Look Younger, but You’re Really an Old Lady Now

I’m aging like a fine wine, but will eventually become vinegar

Sep 30, 2023

When You Still Look Younger, but You’re Really an Old Lady Now

Sep 30, 2023

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The Day I Started Feeling Like One of Those Older Ladies

Middle-age is weird

Jan 26

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Jan 26

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When You Grow Up With Rich Celebrities and Poor People Living on the Streets

And one of them was my mother

Dec 4, 2023

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Dec 4, 2023

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Why This Single Sober Mom Now Takes Shrooms on the Daily

How microdosing psilocybin dismantled my old patterns and hit the refresh button on my life

Mar 28, 2023

Why This Single Sober Mom Now Takes Shrooms on the Daily

Mar 28, 2023

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Black Bear

Filling My Cup With Gratitude Every Morning Helped Me See A New, Improved Life

Acknowledging what I had was like wearing a new pair of glasses

Aug 30

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Aug 30

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Black Bear

No One Seems To Notice I’m Disabled, Including Me

It’s time I unpack my internalized ableism

Aug 23

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Aug 23

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Are You Wise Beyond Your Years Or Young At heart?

Aging is different than feeling old

Aug 23

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Aug 23

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Getting Drunk for 16 Years Stunted My Emotional Growth

21 years later, I think I’ve finally caught up

Aug 20

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Aug 20

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The Memoirist

Growing Up In The Mountains Probably Saved My Life

How the power of Nature and friendship helped me heal my mother wound

Aug 12

Photo of Lick Observatory’s 120-inch Shane telescope on Mt Hamilton above East San José, CA. Skies are a brilliant blue, with one cloud to the right, with another smaller telescope to the right, and a building in the foreground. Trees and foliage surround the telescopes on a hill with a driveway leading to them.

Aug 12

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It’s Complicated When You Break Up With A Dad

I could’ve been a stepparent, but my relationship didn’t last long enough

Aug 8

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Aug 8

Michelle Marie Warner

Michelle Marie Warner

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Writer of all things personal, socially conscious, sensitive AF, single LGBTQIA+ mom. Ready to bite off more than I've been chewing. michellewarner718@gmail.com

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