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  • Last month I decided that I was going to embrace my inner stoner. It turns out, that meant physically, and medically, as I spent the last 10 days with a kidney stone. Don’t worry friends, I’m just habitually dehydrated. It’s been a problem my whole life. I swear, I’m trying to be better. But I…

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  • My “Mama” Reba dropped an EP tonight. I stayed up late to listen. The new song of them? “One Night In Tulsa” I won’t lie, I cried the first 10 listens to it. I just cried. The first time listening, I just heard the melody. I didn’t even hear the words. I cried for that…

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  • Mother Hunger

    A friend recommended the book Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance by Kelly McDaniel to me. My mommy issues are no secret. So I ordered it. I had no intention of starting it anytime soon. I bought it so I could tell them I had it,…

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  • This is not a “you have to believe what I do and that’s the only right answer” place. So if you’re here because of a random tag, and you’re going to start an argument, see your way out. Okay, now that it’s the real ones here, hi. I’m so sorry to do this to you.…

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  • There is a specific kind of safety in a pseudonym. A quiet place to put the words where they can’t burn you. I spent a lifetime just wanting someone—anyone—to look my way and acknowledge the noise in my head, but I was always too afraid to attach my own face to the melody.Then the phone…

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  • The Geography of Home: 1,800 Miles to a Wave

    A paralegal’s 1,800-mile journey from the cornfields of Iowa to a studio in LA. A raw, poetic exploration of finding ‘home’ in a voice that raised you, a 28th birthday reclaimed, and the silent wave that changed everything. Written by Elizabeth Ardelle.

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  • They say that logic is the map, but intuition is the journey. For a long time, I’ve kept my creative world—my “Elizabeth Ardelle” world—neatly tucked inside the lines. But tonight, the lines are softening. I’m introducing a new series here on Lyrical Logic called The Haze Chronicles. In my daily life, I deal in the…

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  • Blue Irises: A Dark Allegory  on Childhood Trauma & Survival

    A dark, modern fairy tale exploring the heavy gravity of childhood trauma, dissociation, and the spaces we build in our minds to survive emotional abuse.

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  • The Math of Moving On

    Healing isn’t linear. Three years post-divorce, the waves of grief still hit. An honest look at depression, therapy, and why I’m done apologizing for the bad days.”

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  • Blue vs. Red Napkins

    Another portion from the project I’m working on. It feels a little close for comfort, which means my nervous system is doing it’s job: healing. Saturday morning was usually a quiet affair for Cheryl Miller. She would sip her coffee in the sun room with the paper and just lounge. It was her necessary decompression…

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