friendships
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Calls With Friends
Dear Conscience, As I might have listed previously, I’m bad at very many things. But one thing I’m relatively good at, is keeping friendships. Keeping friendships takes time, and I do not regret my time spent on it. I genuinely appreciate the many people I’ve had the opportunity to call friends in life, who are Continue reading
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Presents. Ugh.
Given how overwhelmed I am today by the anxiety over the state of my life, I probably should have used today’s theme, Connection, to have a coffee with a friend. But I ended up doing what I like least about friendships: went to go get some presents for kids of friends that I’ll see over Continue reading
About Me
I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.
Becoming Bakitza 