Seeking Validation & Why It's Bad For You
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other night, I turned my phone off so I could sit down and write. It's not that I...
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Sarah Rose
- Jul 24, 2022
- 5 min
The Importance of Sitting Still
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "You're like a lizard in the sun on a rock," I said to Mike, who was sitting on the...
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Sarah Rose
- Jul 17, 2022
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Age Gap Relationships & Falling in Love
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I've been dating my boyfriend, Mike, for roughly seven months now. He was entirely...
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Sarah Rose
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
Normalizing Healthy Disagreement
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I knew someone once who was not a friend but not not a friend, and they happened to...
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Sarah Rose
- May 15, 2022
- 3 min
Mother's Day Poem
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] This post is arriving a day late and a dollar short, which is both a common idiom and...
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Sarah Rose
- May 5, 2022
- 4 min
The Guy Who Told Me I'm An Outdoor Cat
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I once went on a date with a man who diagnosed my eccentricities succinctly, "You're an...
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Sarah Rose
- Apr 24, 2022
- 3 min
Finding Community & Being Known
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I grew up in a small town of about 1,200 people in rural Northwestern Wisconsin. There...
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Sarah Rose
- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
What Kind of Pain Are You Willing To Endure?
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I really hate writing sometimes. Not because I write bad things (I do), or because I...
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Sarah Rose
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
Attracted to Who Abandoned You
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I listened to a podcast awhile back about a guy who lived alone in the forest for 42...
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Sarah Rose
- Jan 23, 2022
- 4 min
The Ex's Who Self-Resurrect
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] Tell me if this sounds familiar. A man or woman breaks up with you, or you break up with...
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Sarah Rose
- Dec 16, 2021
- 4 min
Empaths & Emotional Exhaustion
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I hate people," I told my friend the other day, "I really, really do." "I hate people,"...
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Sarah Rose
- Dec 2, 2021
- 4 min
If You Have To Wonder, You Might Already Know The Answer
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “If you have to wonder,” she said, “you might already know the answer.” She wasn’t...
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Sarah Rose
- Nov 28, 2021
- 4 min
Stories, Life Lessons, & Crime
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I never knew what I wanted to be, which is probably how I ended up being a writer. I grew...
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Sarah Rose
- Nov 21, 2021
- 3 min
The Almost-Stranger Who Told Me I'm Guarded
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "Are you first class?" a man asked me at gate 42 in terminal A at the Atlanta airport. I...
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Sarah Rose
- Nov 14, 2021
- 4 min
Book Reviews & Terrifying Truths
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] "I can tell the darkest and most terrifying truths about human nature with zero...
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Sarah Rose
- Nov 11, 2021
- 3 min
The Woman Who Would Not Shut Up
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to...
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Sarah Rose
- Oct 17, 2021
- 6 min
How I Learned To Set Boundaries
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] For a very long time I tried to be someone I wasn’t so that people would like me: so that...
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Sarah Rose
- Sep 30, 2021
- 5 min
Taking Advantage of the Time You Have
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] The other night, I had a dream that there was a demon living in my basement. I don't even...
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Sarah Rose
- Aug 15, 2021
- 4 min
Masculinity, Femininity, and Attraction
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] I met a man last summer by happenstance. I was running through the Grand Canyon, and he...
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Sarah Rose
- Jul 12, 2021
- 4 min
Are Words Violence?
[Listen to an audio version of this blog here.] This is a timely and important question. I've thought about words as violence ever since...
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