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What would an ideal visit to your doctor’s office look like? Would it be an abundance of time to truly explain the way you feel in your body, and how that might have changed over time? Maybe you’d talk about solutions; not only…

There’s a line from Mary Oliver’s most famous poem, The Summer Day, that I’ve always loved: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life?” What do I plan to do? A lot. For one, it’s been expected of me. I…

Dearest Younger Self, Today will most likely be another day where you sit behind a closed door that your parents refuse to open. Today will most likely be another day where you wonder if there will ever be a time when things won’t feel…

I accidentally ordered a moisturizer that was formulated for menopausal women. Days earlier, I hurriedly purchased the product, recommended on TikTok to me by a dewy-faced influencer who bore the sheen of youth, because, above all, it was…

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibility, Chocho Industries has trained women commissioners from private tertiary universities across Ghana in entrepreneurship skills. This initiative, known as the Chocho Tertiary Entrepreneurship…

It wasn’t until recently, while walking with my dogs in the quiet of a nature preserve, that I recognized how valuable a slower-paced, gentler exercise could be — both physically and mentally. As a teen heavily into sports, I learned to…

Somewhere in the archives of Facebook exists a photo of a fun-loving teenager in her last few days of her senior year of high school. She’s sitting inside a large recycling bin in the school hallway, giving a peace sign, grinning from ear…

As a 20-something, there’s not much that frightens me more than seeing the family members I love get older. But, last year when my mother fell ill, I felt lucky to have the opportunity to be a caregiver as she navigated complex changes in…

As an undergraduate (and an English major), I never understood what the philosophy students were learning. I remember asking an acquaintance what he wrote about in a final. Did you like, produce a new theory of existence? He told me that…

Do Good Things Really Come To Those Who Wait? When I look back on the past couple of decades of my life, there have been various seasons of waiting. There were the months my husband and I lived in my parents’ basement, working bar jobs…