Get Your Own Fries Why food boundaries matter more than you think.

Stop asking if I want to share.
I ordered fries for a reason.
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Lisbon Tried to Kill Me, But in a Sexy Way The cobblestones. The hills. The seafood. The identity crisis.

Lisbon flirted with me, then threw me down a cobblestone hill.
New story: how beauty hurts, glutes ache, and the pastel de nata was worth it.
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Things I Didn’t Know I’d Grieve at 52 A Midlife Inventory of Unexpected Goodbyes.

I didn’t expect to grieve my ambition.
Or my energy. Or the sound my knees used to not make.

This one’s about the weird things we lose in midlife — and what they leave behind.

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The Sad Truth About Hotel Breakfast Why That “Free Continental Buffet” Might Be a Cry for Help

All I wanted was eggs.
What I got was trauma, a waffle stick, and instant regret.

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Why Is Every Tourist Brochure Lying About How Walkable This City Is? And Why I’m Now Limping Through My Vacation in Flip-Flops from a Pharmacy

“Easily walkable!” = cobblestone death trap and a hill that hates you.
I fell for it. Literally.

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10 Ways I’ve Tried to Fix My Life That Made Everything Slightly Worse Midlife solutions from a man who should not be trusted with self-improvement.

I've tried vision boards. Daily affirmations. Gratitude journals.
None of it fixed me. Some of it gave me paper cuts.

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Why Is Every Tourist Brochure Lying About How Walkable This City Is? And Why I’m Now Limping Through My Vacation in Flip-Flops from a Pharmacy

Tourist brochures: “It’s walkable!”
Reality: You’re sobbing into a protein bar on a scenic ledge.
A travel essay about betrayal, blisters, and beet lattes:
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