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When You Still Look Younger, but You’re Really an Old Lady Now

I’m aging like a fine wine, but will eventually become vinegar

7 min readSep 30, 2023

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When You Know It’s Time To Stop Talking to Random Drug Addicts on the Street

No more street outreach for me

7 min readMar 7, 2024

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The Day I Started Feeling Like One of Those Older Ladies

Middle-age is weird

4 min readJan 26, 2024

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When You Grow Up With Rich Celebrities and Poor People Living on the Streets

And one of them was my mother

6 min readDec 4, 2023

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Mental Health and Addictions Community

Why This Single Sober Mom Now Takes Shrooms on the Daily

How microdosing psilocybin dismantled my old patterns and hit the refresh button on my life

9 min readMar 28, 2023

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Why This Single Sober Mom Now Takes Shrooms on the Daily

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Age of Empathy

When the Web of Sexual Violence Feels Normal

And saying NO bears repeating

6 min read4 days ago

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Parents, We Can’t Take Care of Everything for Our Kids All the Time

Am I a helicopter parent?

8 min readApr 25, 2024

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Is Joining the AARP Appropriate for Middle-Aged People?

Only retired persons would have that much time on their hands

5 min readApr 17, 2024

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Middle-aged brown-skinned woman in glasses and long brown hair peeks out of an open window or door at vibrant pink and periwinkle flowers, against a yellow brick building. She’s wearing dangling earrings and appears to have pigtails.

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Michelle Marie Warner

In My Dreams

You come

1 min readMar 23, 2024

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In My Dreams

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How Eating Peanut Butter Toast Helped My 12-Year-Old Daughter Get Her Life Back

Living with germaphobia after a pandemic

9 min readMar 11, 2024

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Michelle Marie Warner

Michelle Marie Warner

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Writer of most things personal, socially conscious, sensitive, single LGBTQIA+ mom. Ready to bite off more than I've been chewing. michellewarner718@gmail.com

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