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About Me — Marcia Abboud
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself — Emily Dickinson — sums me up.
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December 2023
It’s taken me four years to write this piece of self-indulgence, so here we go.
In February 2024, my Medium membership will turn 5 years old. I’ve been a voyeur since then, devouring stories daily as they fill my inbox while neglecting my writing.
After a writer’s block from hell, I finally started publishing in November 2023. ‘Better late than never’ seems to be a theme of my life, along with ‘careful what you wish for’ and ‘yes, I want to see the dessert menu’. My younger self used to skip mains altogether and go straight to dessert. Why waste extra calories? I’m only here for the sugar.
2024 is also the year I’ll turn 60. S. I. X. T. Y. Wow!
I had trouble typing that. It feels like I was forty-five not so long ago. Even thirty-five is still fresh in my mind. And it seemed no time at all since I was planning my young life as a carefree nomad, a world traveller of exotic destinations, and a National Geographic Photographer.
None of that happened.
