Alternate Titles For This Blog Post: What About 30 Is So Scary? In My Head I’m Already Fifty We’ll All Get Old, Deal With It Aversion To Ending Your Twenties Is So Overrated Thirty Is The Real Adulthood, Kids! People Will Start Taking You More Seriously At Thirty ‘Ain't afraid of the walls, I'm a break 'em down’ – a line from the...

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I stood upright in front of a full-length mirror with an overwhelming feeling that was both strange and unfamiliar I hardly recognize the face as my own. It was the longest time I've ever gazed at myself without flinching. I ran my hand through the silky undercut stubble of my pixie hair once more and disorientation seemed to finally wear off. With a...

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“Miss Anie! Miss Anie!” exclaimed the several students approaching me all at once, folders and pens in their hands. I gave them ‘the look’ and without further prompting, the kids formed a line and one by one, clearance forms were being handed to me. I cramped my fingers up, clenched a pen and in slanted cursive, I signed my initials, N.G.O, that looked everything...

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Sunday night began with a very late dinner in bed, Sofia The First: The Floating Palace playing on my Mac. Lori and I were already on our ‘night mode’, pink and purple tees and pajama pants that fit us just right. I promised my 2-year old niece that she could jump on the bed as much as she’d like come nighttime but she...

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