Nathalie Frias
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I Have Not Died, I Have Just Been Doing Things
A personal update about returning to college, working full-time, caring for the people I love,… Read more.
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Atlanta Is in the Plan: Nathalie O’Hara and Other Small Catastrophes
Grief made us pack boxes. School made me question my intelligence. Work summoned HR. Atlanta… Read more.
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The Painting on the Wall
Everyone at the bar thinks they know what happened at Brookside Care Center. They have… Read more.
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The Bell, the Paper, and the Ghost
Four days in a chemotherapy unit’s paper records room taught me more than filing charts.… Read more.
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The Petra Files: The Woman Who Graded Freud’s Homework
Four sessions later, I still have no idea what Dr. Petra is writing in that… Read more.
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The Petra Files: The Woman Who Graded Freud’s Homework
Starting therapy sounded simple until I met Dr. Petra, survived the waiting room, became suspicious… Read more.
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Forty-ish & Formidable: The Art of Caring Selectively
I used to think turning forty meant giving up. Turns out it meant giving fewer… Read more.
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Job Hunting: The Never-Ending Story
Countless applications. Endless interviews. Still showing up anyway. A personal essay on the chaos, humor,… Read more.
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The Twenty-One Minute Woman
She had done this enough times to know the letters were never the whole story.… Read more.
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The Missing Crown
he Duchess’s crown vanishes hours before her coronation. One unbothered cat investigator follows the trail,… Read more.
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The Ceiling Was Never the Whole Building
Nobody warns you that going back to school at this age feels less like a… Read more.
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Fourty Dollars
The drawer at Fortune Creek had a second lock. Savannah Deveraux noticed the lock at… Read more.
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The Homecoming Council
A council of dogs, cats, and squirrels convenes to complain about humans. Then one squirrel… Read more.
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Hortence Declined My Friendship
I tried to make a new friend in a parking lot. She had pearls, a… Read more.
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Emptiness: Season Two
Same girl, same emptiness, upgraded sarcasm. A dark, funny, painfully honest look at what happens… Read more.
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What I Initialed
Shangela Mitchell has twelve years and a CNA license and one initialed line on a… Read more.
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New Job, New Rules: What Nobody Tells You About Starting Over
My first day in Health Information was exactly what you expect. I got my cubicle,… Read more.
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Bonfires, Mosquitos, and the Irony of Being a Tourist Who Hates Tourists
We planned s’mores. The store had no marshmallows. I became the only mosquito buffet at… Read more.
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Crab Island, One Brave Dog, One Smart Dog, and a Nap That Erased Sunday Morning
The Gulf Coast welcomed me by pouring salt water into every scrape I had forgotten… Read more.
