#adulthood

Piano, Music, and Identity

My father bought a grand piano when I was 2 years old and my sister was 5 because he believed that there would be beautiful

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Emmie Arnold

Posted on September 23, 2021

A Life in Letters

This piece may, in some ways, feel a bit antiquated. It’s becoming far more common to type than hand-write. I admit that most

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Emmie Arnold

Posted on January 22, 2020

True Stories | Chosen Family: International Adoption

At the end of our thirties and after seven years of marriage with two heartbreaking miscarriages along the way, my husband

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Posted on November 29, 2018

Essays, Self Care

How I’m Coming to Radically Accept My Life as a Young Adult with Fibromyalgia

Note: I wrote this article for “The Mighty” back in spring 2016 when I was on leave from social work grad school. During that

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Emmie Arnold

Posted on May 15, 2018

Sweatpants & Parenting | Leah Leaves

By Debbie Tanthorey Allen The 29th day of September, in the Year of Our Lord 2013—a milestone. It jars me awake this

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Posted on May 3, 2016

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