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It was one of those mornings where everything went wrong from the moment my eyes fluttered open. My three-year-old, Liam, had decided that 4:30 AM was the perfect time to start his day, and by 6:00 AM, I was already drowning in a sea of spilled cereal, tangled shoelaces, and the relentless whining that seems to be a toddler’s native language. As a single parent, I often feel like I’m juggling chainsaws while riding a unicycle—constantly on the verge of catastrophe. That morning, as I frantically -
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My kitchen at 6:45 AM used to smell like scorched oatmeal and desperation. I'd be juggling spatulas while my twins, Leo and Maya, transformed breakfast into a WWE smackdown over the last blueberry muffin. Leo's socks would inevitably vanish like Houdini props, Maya's spelling folder would be sacrificed to a puddle of orange juice, and my sanity? Dust in the wind. One Tuesday, after discovering Maya "hid" her reading log inside the freezer ("It looked cold, Mommy!"), I collapsed against the fridg -
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That Tuesday migraine hit like a jackhammer behind my left eye—the kind where light feels like shards of glass and even silence screams. I’d crumpled onto the bathroom floor, cold tiles against my cheek, clutching a strain called "Golden Dream" some budtender swore would help. Instead, it wrapped my brain in foggy cotton, leaving the pain throbbing underneath like a trapped animal. I remember choking back tears of frustration, terpenes be damned when they’re guessing games disguised as science. -
Waking up drenched in sweat became my new normal after weeks of recurring dreams about drowning in a library - ancient books swelling with seawater as I gasped between collapsing shelves. Each morning left me more exhausted than the last, carrying that phantom taste of salt on my tongue into meetings where I'd zone out watching raindrops slide down windows. My journal overflowed with frantic sketches: waterlogged manuscripts, floating spectacles, the brass compass that always appeared moments be -
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