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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

Feb 24, 2024

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.

Feb 24, 2024

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…

Jan 25, 2024

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

Jan 25, 2024

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

Dec 14, 2023

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

Dec 14, 2023

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

Even a trash bag would be fine at this point

Sep 20, 2023

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

Sep 20, 2023

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?

Sep 6, 2023

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

Sep 6, 2023

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

Aug 7, 2023

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

Aug 7, 2023

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

Can a transplanted Californian leave her California attitude behind?

May 4, 2023

An orange neon sign reading “The Taco Stand.”

May 4, 2023

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.

Feb 2, 2023

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

Feb 2, 2023

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

Sep 6, 2022

Little boy holding a soccer ball

Sep 6, 2022

And I Thought Peeing in A Cup Would Be Easy

Just follow the “simple” instructions

Jun 12, 2022

And I Thought Peeing in A Cup Would Be Easy

Jun 12, 2022

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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