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The Semi-Bearable Loneliness of Being: Dealing with the holiday blues

Unless a Christmas miracle arrives in the next week or so, it looks like the grapes didn’t work this year. Neither did they work the year before. So it’s pretty safe to say that I’ll be skipping the New Year’s…

Love, Rin: I’m in Limerence

“I’m in limerence” doesn’t have the same ring to it as “I’m in love”. But given how the term ‘limerence’ has been…

Rin’s First Midlife Crisis

It was exactly a week after turning 40 that I had my first mid-life moment. I slipped and fell in the shower.…

Love, Rin

Talking To Myself: Why Shy & Curious took a Hiatus

There’s no clever opening line. No wry quip or apologies for the absence of my voice for the past seven months. Just…

Shy & Curious x Deema & Co: 7 Tiny Love Stories

Hello friends and lovers, surprise! So while I’ve always been a writer at heart and I enjoy being on other podcasts, I’ve…

Much Ado About Aging: Turning 39

Image Credits: Chai Mo, Click With Chai You know what’s worse than finding your first grey pube? Finding your second one. When…

Of Boobs, Biopsies & The Big ‘C’ (Part 3)

It was the trickle that finally broke me. Like an itch that annoyed the shit out of me, there was nothing I…

Of Boobs, Biopsies & The Big ‘C’ (Part 2)

As I lay on the examination table waiting for it to start, her head popped from behind the curtain. I recognise that expression anywhere in any lifetime. The tight pursed lips and slight furrow of her brows betrayed the worry…