Tag Archives: survival

life

Posted on August 30, 2026 by msw blog

Survival is quiet and gray. Living has color. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your likes and passing the real life wisdom on to others as I embark on this new venture of “positively purging“, as I … Continue reading →

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Resilience Through Uncertainty

Posted on July 19, 2026 by msw blog

 i don’t believe my ancestors survived because they were certain everything would work out. i believe they survived because they refused to let uncertainty steal their ability to imagine something better. Positively Purging-I welcome your feedbacks in the comments and your … Continue reading →

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Hatchet

Posted on May 12, 2026 by msw blog

Imagine you are thirteen years old, riding shotgun in a Cessna, and your pilot suddenly loses consciousness. What do you do? I recently revisited Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1987, 208 pages), a book that has stayed with me since childhood. It … Continue reading →

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you are a writer

Posted on March 1, 2026 by msw blog

Some of the best Black women writers I know have journals no one has ever read. They write in the margins, notes apps, memos, diaries, scraps of paper and on the back of envelopes. Not for likes. Not for attention. … Continue reading →

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Create an emergency kit

Posted on January 3, 2026 by msw blog

While most power outages can be safely waited out at home, the flooding that swept Western Washington last week proved that’s not always an option. Ready.gov, a website run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, recommends emergency kits have some … Continue reading →

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