shaylamalek

I can trace back to almost the precise moment I decided to take a different turn in my spiritual journey. The moment I was ready to become who I had long been dreading. The time had come when I couldn’t keep fooling myself any longer. When no amount of hair dye or hangouts with 30 and 40 something year olds was going to keep up the delusion that I am their age and not in my early fifty’s - calves deep into the next stage of my life. It was the moment I was ready to claim my place in the...

I held the hair tie in my fingers and pulled and twisted. Stretched and released, only to stretch and release again. Each machination of...

This is a short piece that I wrote in the spring of 2020. When the pandemic was still fresh and no one knew how long it would last and we...