You cannot undo the layoff, the diagnosis, the failure or the years behind you, but you can stop
Do you pause at the top of the stairs, brace yourself to stand up from a chair, or wonder
You know the feeling: the phone buzzes, the stomach drops, and you are already rehearsing a
Do you reach for the wall on the stairs, grip a shopping cart a little tighter than you used to,
You want your child to be able to walk to the corner, handle a wrong turn at the store, and say
You have seen the short wall Pilates videos and wondered whether you could actually do them:
You are home from surgery, or about to go in, and one question keeps looping: what am I actually
You answered fast, planned the date, filled the silence, and still felt like you were the only
You know what they did. You know you are better off. So why do you still miss them so much that
You check the screen. You draft the message. You read a late reply as proof that something is
You picked up an old text on ancient wisdom, got a page in, and lost the thread. Seven short
The ambulance has gone, the doctors are using words you have never heard, and somewhere in the
