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Bridget Cook

making sense of this wild, precious life

Tag: Prose

building the glass house

September 7, 2018 bridgetmcookLeave a comment

In the space between 18 and 22, we’re often asked, quite broadly, what we’d like to do with our lives. It’s a question usually posed from a well-meaning adult, who’s just trying to engage with us and doesn’t know how else to relate. I've heard it over and over again: “What’s your major?” followed swiftly [...]

Posted in ColumnTagged college, dreams, goals, ideas, jobs, millennial, Prose, twenties

On Letting In and Letting Go

August 16, 2017August 16, 2017 bridgetmcookLeave a comment

I am a sponge. As I make my way through life, ideas, feelings, opinions and emotions surround me on all sides, swirling about, and I soak them up. They are big and loud and bright and demand to be let in. And so I absorb them all. I am a sponge. As we talk, your energy, your [...]

Posted in ColumnTagged adulthood, college, emotion, growing up, life, Prose, relationships, self, self love

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