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I realized something about myself recently that I don’t think I’ve ever really understood.

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People come and sit with me in this little studio in downtown St. Joseph, a space I will not have much longer. It was meant to be a place for writing, but it became something else too. A place where people could sit down...

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When my internal voice speaks, I usually listen.

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Happy birthday to my love.

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Nadie te entrega un mapa.

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Nobody hands you a map.

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Cuando no tienes hogar, todo lo que tienes cabe en unas cuantas bolsas negras de basura.

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When you’re homeless, everything you own fits into a few black trash bags.

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/the-story-i-never-told","title":"The Story I Never Told","summary":"When you’re homeless, everything you own fits into a few black trash bags.","date_modified":"2026-07-06T15:21:34Z"},{"id":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/el-primer-cumplido-despu%C3%A9s-del-divorcio","html_content":"

Todavía recuerdo la primera vez que un hombre me hizo un cumplido después de mi divorcio.

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Vi el avance de una película en Netflix una noche.

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/el-primer-moret%C3%B3n-visible","title":"El Primer Moretón Visible","summary":"Vi el avance de una película en Netflix una noche.","date_modified":"2026-07-06T13:26:35Z"},{"id":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/el-d%C3%ADa-que-se-fue","html_content":"

No hubo una pelea.

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Estaba caminando por el Instituto de Arte de Chicago con unas amigas cuando pasé frente a una fotografía de un sofá rosa y me quedé completamente paralizada.

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Four years ago, I started paying attention to my information diet.

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I recently played Mahjong at an exclusive club with a group of women in their sixties, seventies, and eighties.

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We move through life believing we are seeing things clearly, when in reality we are often seeing through layers.

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She sat across from me at a table with a kind of calm you don’t see much anymore.

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There was a time I thought love needed constant reassurance.

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I still remember the first time a man complimented me after my divorce.

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/selling-myself-online","title":"Online Dating……..Need I Say More….","summary":"I still remember the first time a man complimented me after my divorce.","date_modified":"2026-05-21T18:02:35Z"},{"id":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/the-firefighter-and-the-short-bus","html_content":"

The Firefighter and the Short Bus

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My husband was laid off on a Wednesday.

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Mother’s Day has always been a little complicated for me.

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/the-women-who-carried-me","title":"The Women Who Carried Me","summary":"Mother’s Day has always been a little complicated for me.","date_modified":"2026-05-10T15:06:11Z"},{"id":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/i-thought-my-needs-made-me-a-burden","html_content":"

I never realized how unnatural it felt to use my own voice until I started trying to use it honestly.

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I saw a preview for a movie on Netflix one night.

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I spent years on the back of a motorcycle.

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I was walking through the Art Institute of Chicago with my girlfriends when I passed a photograph of a pink couch and stopped in my tracks.

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The Day He Left Without Warning

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The Day He Left

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/i-finally-stopped-saving-him-and-started-saving-us","title":"Nineteen Years Ended in a Single Quiet Morning","summary":"The Day He Left","date_modified":"2026-03-17T05:53:15Z"},{"id":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/the-day-i-knew-my-marriage-was-over","html_content":"

The moment did not happen during a fight.

","url":"https://threebirdscollective.com/f/the-day-i-knew-my-marriage-was-over","title":" The Quietest Ending","summary":"The moment did not happen during a fight.","date_modified":"2026-03-14T22:08:24Z"}]}