June 2025
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Breaking Away from the Narrative
Every book has its function and requires a certain mindset to read them … at least for me. As part of my newly developed body recomposition nightly routine, I wind down by reading but I can’t just read any book. No. It must be the perfect before-I-go-sleep sort of book, entertaining but not requiring too Continue reading
A Physical Education: How I Escaped Diet Culture and Gained the Power of Lifting, Casey Johnston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Crossfit, Daily Calories, Deadlift, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Eddie Ndopu, Hélène Cixous, Heather Cox Richardson, Lifting, Lifting Heavy, Macro, Making It So: A Memoir, Nutrition, Olympic Lifting, Patrick Stewart, Personal Record, Power Lifting, PR, Protein, Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution, Roxane Gay, Sam Briggs, Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, Start Your Engines: My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey, Strength Training, Tania Branigan, The Laugh of the Medusa, The Portable Feminist Reader, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Twelve Hundred Calories a Day, U.S. diet industry, Woman -
The Old Woman
CONTENT WARNING: This blog post contains graphic descriptions about suspected suicide. This may be disturbing or triggering for some individuals. Proceed with caution or refrain from reading if there is sensitivity to this type of content. For about a year after my initial inpatient stay in the hospital Māmā and I would travel to the hospital Continue reading
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Well Done
CONTENT WARNING: This blog post contains graphic descriptions of burn injuries, including details about skin damage, blistering, charring, and pain. This may be disturbing or triggering for some individuals. Proceed with caution or refrain from reading if there is sensitivity to this type of content. Bàbà’s wailing haunted the dimly lit stairwell like a shadow, Continue reading
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Haunted
“Māmā“ I called out into the darkness. My voice seemed too small and too weak to pierce through the thick air of mourning. “Māmā, Mā-mā” I called out again, eyes blurred with grief and heavy with sleep. A light shone from the kitchen cast filtered shadows against the wall that slowly succumbed to the darkness Continue reading
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The Angry Typist 