Light & Sweet

Light & Sweetis a free newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share excerpts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. Dear reader, My phone lights up and there are three missed calls from my father, a text from him that reads call me back. I return his call and our thirty-two second conversation went like this: Hi Dad I’m not fucking playing with you Maria.

Dear Maria is an advice column for paid subscribers of the Light and Sweet newsletter. Today will be the only day that it is a free offering. Dear Maria, How do you motivate yourself/what helps you on your hardest of days? I have been struggling to do even the smallest of things that I enjoy and know will help me feel better mentally.

Light & Sweetis a free newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share excerpts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. Dear reader, It is 8am in Arizona, C. and I are sitting in a restaurant/cafe sipping on our lattes. He’s reading, I’m writing. I’ve been procrastinating. Is it fear of failure? Yeah, probably but I’m not getting into that today.

Hey paid subscribers <3 Our second book will be Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. It is a longer book 400+ pages but I flew through it. Here is the description from Goodreads: A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over.

Light & Sweetis a free newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share excerpts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. Starting next week (3/19), will be a bi-weekly offering. You can now expect 2-3 newsletters a month.

Light & sweet is a free weekly newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. cw:mentions risks with organ transplant and pregnancy Right as I woke up this morning and my brain started to fire off the never-ending to-do list. All the questions popping in and out of my mind — did I remember to make that doctors appt?

Light & sweet is a free weekly newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. After I hosted my first book club last Sunday and posted my latest newsletter, I felt my temperature rise and my skin start to feel clammy. C. and I both took a covid test and it was negative. I wanted to believe it was just a cold.

Light & sweet is a free weekly newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. cw: death, strained mother-daughter relationship, addiction, emotional + physical abuse My mom died two years ago and I don’t miss her. It feels as if I lost her much earlier or like I never really had her to begin with.

Light & sweet is a free weekly newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. I was sixteen — boxed in the baby blue walls of my bedroom and my twin-sized bed, clinically depressed, cradling myself, wondering when love would find me. I questioned if I was worthy of love. I wanted it deeply.

Light & sweet is a free weekly newsletter. If you are interested in supporting me further as a writer, I invite you to become a paid subscriber. Please feel free to share parts of this newsletter that you connect with on social media or send to someone you love. My week started with an impulsive purchase. A bamboo whisk, a strainer, glass straws, and golde matcha powder were all added to my cart. Everything needed to make iced matcha lattes at home. Anything to make my mornings more desirable.