Figuring out my 30s

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How to figure out “who am I now?” Welcome back to my on-going series Becoming Her – Identity and Inner Growth I’ve been in the trenches of looking at the myth that we should already know who we are. At the big age of 31 I’m still very much figuring out who I am, and I […]

Sam laying in bed in Sequoia national park with a book and her little dog. She's smiling at the camera wearing a white tank top, green plaid shorts, and tortise shell glasses. It's early in figuring out who I am now

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I typically write myself a letter on my birthday, and do some birthday portraits. Last year was my 30th birthday and Kamala Harris had just lost the presidential election and I wasn’t particularly feeling my best, so I didn’t do it. Instead I wrote a list of 100 things I wanted. And I’m going to […]

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I wonder, sometimes, what is “too much.” Sometimes everything feels like that. Sometimes nothing. Today my husband called me in the middle of the day – that’s surprising because at work he can’t typically call me. But today he was driving from one location to another and had the time. The problem is that more […]

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Are there archives of old newspapers? I’ve been wondering what writing looked like pre-ai. It feels like everything reads like ai now. Even substack a community that is theoretically full of writings also reads like ai. Then I started thinking maybe that was my own personal bias? Maybe I wanted everything to read like ai […]

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The 3 Bonus Things I’m Prioritizing for the Next Year in My 30s (and How I’m Planning Around Them Each Week) *Also – please remember that everything doesn’t have to happen all at once. Things are able to go slow when necessary. It doesn’t have to be 3 times a day it can be 3 […]