Archive - Midlife Soup

Why My Family Feared Traveling—and Why I Don’t Anymore

Aug 19 •

A time and a place

the sound of my name from the barista at the مقهى

Aug 17 •

May 2025

So You Wanna Be A Writer

"I'm writing for people, baby"

May 15 •

March 2025

The Day My Home Vanished

Home is a person you wanted to keep forever.

Mar 16 •

Calling | A 10 Word Story

A 10 Word Story

Mar 16 •

and I may as well embrace it

Mar 8 •

I Dread Writing | A 10 Word Story

hating writing, then loving writing, then hating it

Mar 2 •

Forgetting and grieving

"Cash or card?"

Mar 2 •

February 2025

My Biggest Curse Was Being Born a Woman

a poem on conformity

Feb 6 •

January 2025

Poem + 10 word story + January Current Reads

Jan 2 •

December 2024

pause the madness

take a rain check on reality

Dec 7, 2024 •

Silence Rewritten | A 10 Word Story

grief sings a powerful song

Dec 5, 2024 •

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