Why Do I Only Cry at the Happy Bits?
In marriage counseling, we've been doing Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy - which is basically identifying your triggers- where you...
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Sarah Z.
Aug 214 min
The Deepest, Darkest
It started about a week ago, this sense of doom. The kids were getting ready to go back to school, and instead of tasting my impending...
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Sarah Z.
Aug 103 min
Committed Felony, Fell in Hole: How My Girls Night Out Went
I'm trying to make friends in our new home (3.5 years new) and it's haarrrrdddd. I'm only mildly social and pretty busy with kids, pets,...
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Sarah Z.
Jun 63 min
PRIDE is the Best Parts of Church
Every time I go to a Pride event, I leave feeling amazing. The radical love and acceptance is so vivid, I can taste it in the air. It's a...
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Sarah Z.
May 95 min
Sad Mad Sad Bad(?) Sad Sad Sad
I don't know how to function when my kid is struggling. I'm sure it's condependent and there's a better way, but when my kids are in...
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Sarah Z.
Mar 187 min
Where Do I Start? EMDR Therapy
I haven't been writing because I don't know how to begin to share what I've been going through. Also, I'm hesitant because I'm not sure...
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Sarah Z.
Feb 12 min
Be a Jerk For Your Kid
That's what the therapist for my ten year-old told me tonight, when I was hemming and hawing over whether it was too much for me to ask...
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Sarah Z.
Jan 264 min
Movie Review: Poor Things
Alright, so let me start by saying that this movie is strange and arty and will be taught in film school going forward. I am certain it's...
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Sarah Z.
Jan 252 min
Forever Debating That Glass of Wine
I woke up with a headache and the feeling that leaving my bed today would be ambitious. It could be from the pressure changes; it’s...
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Sarah Z.
Jan 153 min
Not So Much Plastic as Cardboard: Mean Girls (2024), Review
Mean Girls: So, this is the movie version of the Broadway musical (2018) based on the 2004 movie, based on a parenting book. It's about...
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Sarah Z.
Jan 103 min
Who DOESN'T Have a Thing for Serial Killers? *Book Review*
TW: rape and murder I finally got the house back to myself yesterday after the six month holiday school break. (That's not an...
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Sarah Z.
Jan 54 min
Grit and a Starbucks Stalking
There's an older man dropping facial gymnastics about whatever he's reading in a real live actual print newspaper in front of him. I...
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Sarah Z.
Dec 12, 20233 min
Juno Temple + Jon Hamm? Yeah, You Betcha!
Best thing I've watched lately: The newest (5th) season of Fargo, "based on a true story," started back up a few weeks ago, each season...
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Sarah Z.
Oct 18, 20234 min
Mansion/Apartment/Shack/House
Remember playing the M.A.S.H. game as kids? It very accurately predicted life as an adult: who you would marry, where you would live, ...
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Sep 23, 20232 min
Friday Finds: What I'm Watching/Reading
Hellloooooo and how are you? Happy almost weekend! Here's where I semi-regularly drop reviews on what I'm consuming, in case you want to...
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Sarah Z.
Sep 12, 20232 min
Is She a Good Mom?
Can she live up to what we all need her to be? GOOD MOM has big shoes to fill, but she must take tiny, quiet steps. Does she know what...
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Sarah Z.
Aug 11, 20234 min
Sex is Funner After Forty
I've been hearing that magical shift that happens after forty for decades. I had friends who swore once they turned forty, they stopped...
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Sarah Z.
Jul 30, 202312 min
Hey Barbie, What’s Your Sign?
(Variations of this essay were awarded the 2018 Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest Adult Author Category – Third Prize and 2019 Erma...
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Sarah Z.
Jul 18, 20233 min
Vaca with Kids Confuses My Brain
Picture it: you have a huge bowl of your favorite ice cream, fresh out of the freezer, just the right amount of melty. It looks and...
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