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Your Kids Don’t Want Your Sticker Collection or Old Mix Tapes

How do I know? You don’t want your parents’ stuff either

5 min readFeb 24, 2024

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A room filled with clutter and stacked with clothes, hats and books. A representation of the things that your kids don’t want to inherit.

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Quiet Quitting Isn’t Only for Your Job, Get Rid of Toxic Mindsets and People

Clean house of physical and mental clutter, but not in a Marie Kondo or homicidal way…

5 min readJan 25, 2024

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An overflowing dumpster symbolizing all of the trash that we should get rid of in the New Year

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How to Procure and Put Up a Christmas Tree in 10 Angry Steps

If your marriage wasn’t teetering on divorce before you lost the remote for the Christmas tree lights, it is now

10 min readDec 14, 2023

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Did your Christmas tree every look as perfectly symmetrical and decorated as this one with red and white bulbs and ribbons? Mine either.

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Why Won’t My Daughter Carry a Purse? Adventures in Micromanagement

Even a trash bag would be fine at this point

4 min readSep 20, 2023

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Pink purse with contents spilling out. I just wish my daughter would carry one!

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My Daughter’s Been at College for Two Whole Days: 12 Text Strings That Challenge My Sanity

Can I Survive Four, or Five or Ten More Years of This?

3 min readSep 6, 2023

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My Daughter’s Been at College for Two Whole Days: 12 Text Strings That Challenge My Sanity

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Body Positive-ish but Still Giving My Stomach the Side Eye

Dreaming of a PBR 6-pack or even a 4-pack of expensive craft beer

4 min readAug 7, 2023

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A big-boned seal patting his stomach and smiling for the camera. Or me with an Instagram filter.

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Leaving Home, Starting Anew and “San Diego” Rolled Tacos

Can a transplanted Californian leave her California attitude behind?

6 min readMay 4, 2023

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An orange neon sign reading “The Taco Stand.”

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Why Can’t 50 Be the New 50?

You don’t want to be the idiot you were at 21. Embrace change and keep learning.

5 min readFeb 2, 2023

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Woman looking at herself in the mirror and smiling. Aging and 50 years old is the new 50 years old.

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My Archenemy is a Seven-Year-Old Boy and I’m O.K. With That

Bully my daughter? Be prepared for the wrath of soccer-Mom

6 min readSep 6, 2022

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Little boy holding a soccer ball

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And I Thought Peeing in A Cup Would Be Easy

Just follow the “simple” instructions

6 min readJun 12, 2022

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And I Thought Peeing in A Cup Would Be Easy

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Maj-le Bridges

Maj-le Bridges

Gen X-er, recovering lawyer, frustrated writer, Lego enthusiast and serial creative. Medium Top Writer | Published in Start It Up & Age of Awareness.

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