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Eunice

Posted on April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 by Andrea

Letting Go of Your Mother “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest   “How are you?” I asked. “Oh, fine, fine,” she said. Then: “Old. Old and brittle. Too old,” grimacing. Though a screen cannot compare to personal…

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Sweating the Small Stuff in My Chaotic World

Posted on November 13, 2021April 8, 2022 by Andrea

How Non-Issues to One Are Real Issues to Another “I am not young enough to know everything.” ― Oscar Wilde As I am writing down my thoughts and feelings, I am very aware of their insignificance in the big scheme of things. I wonder why I am writing at all. Surely, faced with climate change, natural…

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A Eulogy for Flexibility

Posted on December 31, 2019April 7, 2022 by Andrea

How to keep rolling with the punches as time goes by “I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. And to alter now, cleanly and sanely, I want to shuffle off this loose living randomness: people; reviews; fame; all the glittering scales; and be withdrawn, and…

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5 Excuses Not to Write

Posted on December 17, 2019April 4, 2022 by Andrea

Why would you want to be a writer anyway? “A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it” ― Roald Dahl Right after my Medium Milestone — my first 500 followers…

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A Fundamental Change

Posted on November 17, 2019April 7, 2022 by Andrea

How ‘The Change’ affects a woman’s life I’m going through The Change, as is popularly said. Personally, I cannot help wondering what I am supposed to change into. In my 50-something years old life I have gone from infancy to toddler, from toddler to child, from child into adolescence, from adolescence into young adult, from…

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Well Done, Writer!

Posted on November 14, 2019April 4, 2022 by Andrea

How to reward yourself for a job well done “The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success.” ― W. Somerset Maugham As a…

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