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Published on Vox. The best $3,000 I ever spent: Surgery for a cat I never wanted. 4/10/22
Published on Lion’s Roar. Finding the Dharma. 8/17/22
Published on Modern Loss. Holy Shit, I’m Single Again. 3/22/18
Writer’s Digest Honorable Mention. Fall 2023.
Published on Tiny Buddha: Choosing Now to Be Happy: Why the Conditions Are Never Perfect. 4/25/21
Published on Tiny Buddha: Your Story Shapes Your Life–And You Can Change It At Any Time. 11/26/18
Published on Tiny Buddha: The Betrayal of Expectations: When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned. 1/9/18
Published on Tiny Buddha: Dealing with a Big Disappointment: How to Soften the Blow and Move On. 8/1/22
House of Teresa Essays:
Smoke in Mirrors. 8-16-23
Gone Fishin’. 7.23.23
What We See. 6-15-23
You Can. 4-27-23
Create. 3-21-23
41. 2-25-23
The Calm before a Storm. 1-30-23
Keep On. 12-31-22
A Day of Thanks. 11-24-22
September Thoughts. 9-27-22
August Roundup. 8-29-22
Row Teresa. 7-29-22
The Charioteer. 6-23-22
The Damn Shoe. 6-6-22
Hello, June. 6-3-22
April Showers. 4-25-22
The Doors We Walk Through. 3/27/22
40. 2/24/22
House Arrest. 1/25/22
A Christmas Wish. 11/24/21
1+1+1+1+1. 10/17/21
November. 11/17/21
The Fruit of Our Labor. 9/6/21
The Yellowjacket in Me. 8/1/21
Just a Tadpole in a Fishbowl. 7/10/21
The Ocean, My Mentor. 6/10/21
Thank You For Your Time. 4/24/21
Learning Non-Attachment at the Swimming Pool. 3/30/21
Rebirth. 3/14/21
Birthday Wishes. 2/23/21
Clinging. 2/2/21
A New Year. 1/11/21
Dear Heterosexual Men. 12/27/20
Three-Letter Word. 12/22/20
Thanksgiving Cast Away. 11/27/20
Lessons from Kindergarten Zoom. 11/24/20
Tiny Story on World Kindness Day. 11/13/20
Our Teddy. 10/26/20
Keep the Inheritance. 9/23/20
The Pause. 9/4/20
Leaning in, Letting Go. 8/15/20
Wayfarer. 7/19/20
Moving an Inch. 6/27/20
The Risk Management of Life. 6/10/20
Kittens and Butterflies. 5/30/20
A Mother’s Love.5/10/20
Chaos Management. 4/18/20
The Proverbial Cage. 4/4/20
Two Weeks In: Confessions from Quarantine. 3/28/20
This I Know. 3-20-20
Four Out of Five. 2.29.20
On the Corner of Optimistic and Jaded. 2/10/20
First Post of the Year. 1/29/20
What is This Teaching Me? 12/5/19
The Waiting. 10/27/19.
Spectacularly Ordinary. 9/28/19
Handling Uncertainty. 9/2/19
Starting Over. 8/12/19
The Recital of Life. 7/16/19
Me and My Expectations. 6/18/19
I am a Crumpled Paper. 3/26/19
37. 2/25/19
Desperately Seeking the Bright Side. 2/2/19
A Curated Life. 12/30/19
Dinner Tables and Gratitude. 11/22/18
Your Voice Matters. 11/5/18
The New from the Old. 10/25/18
Shut Her Up. 9/26/18
Hollowness. 9/22/18
Stay in Your Lane. 9/10/18
Wear the Coffee Pants. 8/27/18
The Rest of Your Life to Get There. 7/27/18
The Invasion of the Fern Plant. 7/2/18
Becoming a Lotus Flower in the Mud. 6/28/18
Are You Having Fun Yet? 6/10/18
Finding Open Doors. 6/1/18
Screw the Boxes. 5/29/18
I Don’t Need Mother’s Day. 5/9/18
The Roads We Choose. 3/16/18
Love is Spiritual. 3/11/18
Exposure: The Building Blocks of Life. 3/5/18
Valentine’s Day with Myself. 2/14/18.
Reserving Judgment. 1/18/18.
Taming of the Longing. 1/6/18
The Physics in My Life. 12/17/17
Why Can’t You Admit That You’re Wrong? 12/12/17
What They Won’t Tell You. 12/10/17
The Light in Pain. 11/30/17
If I Have to Celebrate Thanksgiving… 11/22/17
Dear Millennials, Please Save Our Schools. 11/17/17
Christmas This Year. 11/15/17
Raising a Daughter. 11/6/17
The Vanishing Self Syndrome. 9/25/17
Happiness Imposter. 9/21/17
When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned. 8-27-17
The Road I’m On. 8/20/17
Race and Dating. 8/18/17
Dear Punk Sibling. 8/11/17
The Wimpy Texter. 7/19/17
The Re-Do. 7-9-17
Wanderlust and Roots. 7/8/17
Shedding My Skin. 7-6-17
Traveling. 6/7/17
A Letter to Young Women. 5/21/17
Teresa Shimogawa 