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There comes a point in life where you assume you’ve learned the major lessons. You’ve survived bad perms, heartbreaks, friendship implosions, jobs that aged you permanently, men who communicate exclusively through silence, and at least one phase where you thought acid-wash jeans and neon leg-warmers were a good idea.

You think “Surely now I get to coast.”

Apparently not. Because this year felt like the universe handed me a group project called Unexpected Personal Growth and despite repeatedly saying, “No thanks, I’ve already suffered enough for the curriculum,” I was enrolled anyway.

So in honor of another rotation around the sun, or as a friend of mine describes it, the anniversary of my epic vaginal descent, here are the lessons I’ve learned, relearned, ignored, relearned again, and may still completely fail to apply in real time.

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I’ll be honest.

For someone who’s travelled as much as I have, I was a little nervous about Egypt. Maybe it’s the current tensions in the Middle East. Maybe it’s the low-level anxiety so many of us are carrying right now. But whatever it was, I went in cautious.

And left completely blown away.

Have you heard that old backhanded blessing, or is it curse, “May you live in interesting times”?

Well. "Interesting" feels like a polite understatement. Most mornings, I open my socials the way I’d open a suspicious container in the back of the fridge. Cautiously. Holding my breath. And bracing for a fresh serving of global WTF.

Since the world has officially chosen ‘Unhinged Chaos’ as its aesthetic for 2026, I’ve decided to respond in kind.

With perspective. With humor. With bite.

Over the decades I’ve spent roaming this planet, I’ve curated a small, slightly deranged treasure chest of hard-earned nuggets of wisdom. Some of it is comforting. Some of it is deeply inconvenient. All of it is unfiltered—like me. This is not your mother’s life advice. (Unless your mother was a total badass who didn't take any shit.)

Every single day on Instagram, I’ll be dropping one sharp truth, one savage reflection, or one quotable recalibration to help tilt the scales back toward sanity. So, if you like what I’m doing here, click that Insta link and follow along for your daily dose of Unf*cking.

Less “Live, Laugh, Love.” More “Live, Learn, and Hell Yeah.”

And to jump start you, here are ten of my faves.