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Looking Back to Move Forward

Leaving NYC, my therapist told me, can be like a breakup. You vilify what you’re leaving behind in order to accept your new reality. When I moved out of NYC last year, I was all “fuck New York.” The city I’d grown up in the shadow of. The city where I spent my mid 20s […]

My 35th Birthday Sonoma Trip

It’s no secret that travel has been a balm to my soul since losing my mom. (In fact, I even wrote an article on grief travel, or a griefcation, as I call it.) But California’s been particularly good to my soul. So, facing both my 35th birthday and my first birthday without my mom all […]