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It’s 2024, Can We Finally Have Pocket Equality?

Like most things, pockets are rooted in the patriarchy.

Ryan Fan in The Partnered Pen

High Expectations Are Making Me Miserable. I’m Trying to Break Free.

When expectations are combined…

Brianna Bennett, M.A., M.F.A. in The Partnered Pen

America Has Never Been Great

It’s time to stop celebrating mediocrity.

Gretchen Lee Bourquin in The Partnered Pen

I’m Trying to Eat Better

But Don’t Say The D Word

Karen Banes in The Partnered Pen

I‘ve Been Writing a Reverse Bucket List

Turns out I’m accomplished AF

Ryan Fan in The Partnered Pen

Why Megalomanic Delusional Thoughts Are Becoming My Biggest Motivator

The realization that I, too…

Brianna Bennett, M.A., M.F.A. in The Partnered Pen

I’m Back from the Dead

Re: where I’ve been and where I’d like to go next.

Karen Banes in The Partnered Pen

What Will You Do With Your 4,000 Weeks?

Until I read this book, I didn’t realise that’s all we get

Karen Banes in The Partnered Pen

The Power of a Regular Reset

Today I’m turning me off and on again

Joseph Serwach in The Partnered Pen

Is having kids necessary? What’s the most important reason to have a child? If you have kids, why have more? Why have another baby? The best case for kids may be summed up in a single C.S. Lewis quote. In his 1952 masterpiece, Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis makes one powerful statement that best answers at least three massive life debates: The best reason to have a baby is to put children ahead of all other ambitions, including money, power, and pleasure. The best reason to build a big family.

The Most Important Reason to Have a Child? An Old C.S. Lewis Quote Says It Best

Is there a right…