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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 Memoirist

When You Know It’s Time To Stop Talking to Random Drug Addicts on the Street

No more street outreach for me

Mar 7

Young white man in a blue hoodie and jeans, sitting with knees up next to a gray concrete wall, holding his hand up with a sign that says, “Stop drugs”

Mar 7

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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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The Narrative Arc

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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Mental Health and Addictions Community

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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I’m Stuck in a Dysfunctional Relationship With Our Country

And it just got more complicated

1d ago

I’m Stuck in a Dysfunctional Relationship With Our Country

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When Do Older Women Start To Feel Like They’re Invisible to Men?

Getting less attention gave me a clue.

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She Asked for College Money, but It Looked Like She Was Asking for Art Supplies

Words matter, friends

5d ago

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Why I’m Finally Willing To Date People Closer to My Age Now

Is it because I’ve finally matured?

6d ago

Brown-skinned man in his 30s, dreadlocks and goatie with black glasses and a white beanie, wearing white headphones, a white shirt, two necklaces, a blue and white flannel, and blue jeans with white sneakers. He’s holding a cellphone in his right hand while walking a blonde dog with a red bandana on a city street.

6d ago

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If You’re an Addict, Some of Your Friends Will Die Young

With recovery comes acceptance that a few won’t make it

Jun 23

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Jun 23

Michelle Marie Warner

Michelle Marie Warner

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

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