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From Awareness to Mastery (and all the messy loops in between)
I submitted this piece to the Trenton Library’s Adult Writers Contest this year.
I’d been dancing around the whole “being a writer” thing for a while, so I thought: You know what? I’ll submit this piece—and then I’ll be a writer.
Because I’d have a piece. And it’d be up for first prize. And hey, who knows—maybe I’d even win.
And then I’d really be a writer.
Spoiler: I did not win.
And you know what? That’s okay. Because I still won something big.
I won the right to call myself a writer.
I’m proud of this piece—not just for how it’s written, but because it’s true.
Because I survived it.
Because I’m still here—not just to tell the tale, but to leave a few breadcrumbs behind for the next person stumbling through their own loop.
Because dang… we get caught in some mangled patterns sometimes.
And getting out? Whew. Easier said than done.
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The Hardest Truth I’ve Seen Disney Tell
I’ll be honest—when I watched the live-action
Lion King, I was half trying to escape the room.
It dragged. The singing wore me out. And Disney kind of freaks me out in general.
But then … I saw it.
And once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it.
That moment when legacy feels like exile —when everything you thought was yours gets stripped away, and suddenly you’re on a path you never asked for.
Mufasa doesn’t collapse when he's torn from the future he was promised.
He adapts. He finds a new pride. He tries to lead in better ways. But no matter how good he is, no matter how much he grows—they never truly let him in.
Not the ones in charge. And that hit me.
Because we don’t talk enough about what it costs to walk your own path.
Sometimes life has to burn down everything familiar just to show you what was never really yours.
And if you’ve got purpose—
real
purpose—there will be moments you try to blend in, just to soften the edge of that loneliness.
But the truth is this:
Your path is yours alone.
Not because you’re lost.
But because you finally got quiet.
Because you stopped performing.
Because you chose to walk forward—not in circles, not for approval—but toward the life only you can see.
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It’s short. It’s quiet. It’s true.
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right here.
You know… I wasn’t even sure I was going to share this piece.Because, well… Donald Trump.
And frankly, no one can seem to get ahold of themselves long enough to hold a thoughtful conversation when his name comes up.
But I didn’t write this for anyone else. I wrote it because I had a full day of thinking it through. And I wanted to get it down.
So when I shared it with my husband, Mark, he asked, “Are you going to publish this?”
Truth is, I wanted to.
Because I think these are good thoughts. Thoughtful thoughts.
And it’s an interesting perspective—one that might not be everyone’s, but it’s mine.
Here’s the thing: A lot of people struggle to see outside their own perspective.
But I like that space. The middle. The space where multiple things can be true, where I can flesh out why someone might feel one way and why someone else might feel the opposite—and still understand both.
Because life isn’t simple. And your perspective? It was built by something. It didn’t come out of nowhere.
And so few ever stop to even wonder what made them think that way at all.
So I decided— Ah well… frick it.
Here’s my assessment of Donald Trump, hardened by my life experience— A perspective from which I could see him.
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