Only In Hindsight

My High-Paying Job Made Me a Lazy Creative

I know what you’re thinking BUT hear me out.

1 hr ago • Leslie

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June 2026

The Room I Rented Before I Was Ready

I signed the lease on a space I cannot fully justify.

Jun 5 • Leslie

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December 2025

We Are All Trying Our Best

On kindness, free will, and remembering that everyone is learning in real time

Dec 30, 2025 • Leslie

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September 2025

Self-Control Is How You Self-Preserve

I used to think health was about discipline only in the obvious ways—eating better, working out, drinking more water.

Sep 8, 2025 • Leslie

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Detachment Teaches You How to Stay

There are so many times I look back and think: if only I had detached, things would have been different.

Sep 6, 2025 • Leslie

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You Can’t Distract Yourself Out of Loneliness

Solange said it best: I tried to drink it away, I tried to sex it away, I ran my credit card bill up… and still, the ache persisted.

Sep 6, 2025 • Leslie

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June 2025

The Eldest Daughter's Quiet Undoing

A letter to the first version of me, my mother.

Jun 3, 2025 • Leslie

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May 2025

The Intimacy We Don't Talk About Enough

To the women I love, who weather the April storms - you are my May flowers.

May 2, 2025 • Leslie

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April 2025

To the First Man Who Never Said ‘I Love You’

But somehow taught me everything about it anyway.

Apr 10, 2025 • Leslie

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Letters I should have sent

A reminder that you don't need to keep learning the hard way.

Apr 6, 2025 • Leslie

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