self – Sarah Nicholson

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A Wish For You (And Me)

Birthdays bruise me, so I have gotten into the habit of writing myself notes of encouragement from outside perspectives (or Continue Reading

I lay next to my boyfriend, knowing that when we woke up we’d begin the long season of goodbyes while Continue Reading

This is a brief attempt to describe the mind and experience of someone with extreme and changing emotions like me.

I was born in Porto Velho, Brazil to missionary parents. I grew up in a little village in the jungle outside Continue Reading

Can I describe the feeling of skin to skin? Even just shoulder to chin? As I lie on my side, Continue Reading

Depression Aid

This is a journal entry from a sleepless night spent stressing about my perceived laziness at school (and the “imminent Continue Reading

As we mature enough to really hear our minds and begin to observe life, we come up against many sufferings Continue Reading

My stomach pushes me off the bed, in and out. Fingernails click on a plastic pen. Blonde bangs, furry in Continue Reading

Depression Aid

If you are in service of your own development, then you will likely undergo some excavation. Was I in the Continue Reading

A poem I wrote while observing my little sister go through the loud parts of puberty. I mean to speak Continue Reading