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Notes from an empty nest: retracing 28 years of NY memories
Permanence is an illusion, but some places feel frozen in time.
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Jenna Park
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Centering
I blinked and September was gone.
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But first, sleep. Lucy and Ricky were onto something.
After 20 years of terrible dysfunctional sleep, I may have broken the spell.
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The Leaving Years
By the time you read this, I might be in a fetal position.
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Jenna Park
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My career ambitions have left the building
Grind culture is bullshit. Learning how to do nothing is bliss.
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Jenna Park
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We are all stars under the same night sky
Chasing after the lightness of youth. Can we ever recapture that feeling again?
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Life is one big curveball
The letdown and the start of summer. Plus, a strawberry pie recipe from the archives.
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A reminder that there was life before kids
An empty nest preview. It's gonna be okay.
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Jenna Park
36
Outgrowing friendships
Friendships post-Instagram, post-empty nest, and the liminal time that is summer.
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Jenna Park
32
I'm not ready to embrace my grays
Another year around the sun, and another year of hair dye.
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Jenna Park
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How much we spent on a month's worth of dinners, 2024 edition
My plunging metabolism and wacky bloodwork is really throwing all of my food choices into question lately.
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Aging is a privilege, but I don't have to like it
My dreams of being an eccentric old lady living alone with her cats is in jeopardy.
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Jenna Park
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