Alyssa Kulesa

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  • Hermit Crabs, Growing Pains, and Letting Go

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    Hermit Crabs, Growing Pains, and Letting Go

    I remember waking up in the middle of the night as a kid feeling like my legs wanted to run a marathon. This usually happened when I was going through a growth spurt. During these periodic growing pains, I felt…

  • Help for Moments of Gift Anxiety

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    Help for Moments of Gift Anxiety

    Gift buying can be stressful–especially when you’re worried about disappointing someone you love. Geoff and my brother both have massive gift anxiety. To them, it feels like a pressure cooker of potential disappointment. Geoff’s ideal present is to gift an…

  • Human or Robot?

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    Human or Robot?

    We’re weird creatures. Our identities are made up of a messy amalgamation of stories. Stories that are told to us from the time we’re born. Stories that are passed down from other people who have carried the weight of stories…

  • Walking the Runway or Runaway Emotions?

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    Walking the Runway or Runaway Emotions?

    If we’re friends on Instagram, you might have seen that I’ve walked in two fashion shows recently. (If we’re not, why aren’t we? Say hi! And to catch you up, I’ve walked on two runways recently). Which on Instagram might…

  • The Man Living on the Bench

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    The Man Living on the Bench

    A man lived on the bench near my building. I’d see him every day in the afternoons. He dressed in a black coat and pants and always had a large duffle in tow. I’d routinely see him wiping down his…

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    For my control freaks

    Hey Reader! Life’s a great experiment. As much as we yearn for, seek, and contort ourselves to feel in control, control is an illusion.  As much as we’d like to control the behaviors of other people, we simply can’t and the…