by Marijke McCandless | Feb 25, 2025 | Juicy Practices Newsletter
Hello Reader! I didn’t expect to lose 40% of my hearing. Two and a half weeks ago, seemingly out of nowhere, the world got muddled. At first, I thought it was temporary—another passing effect of travel or the ear infection I’d had months before. But within days of...
by Marijke McCandless | Feb 13, 2025 | Juicy Practices Newsletter
Hello Reader! Kaleidoscope Mind This week, my mind is a kaleidoscope—spinning with synchronicities, tangled in ear infections and fevers, lit up by superhero capes and Zen poetry: simple days, complex thoughts, an undercurrent of searching for meaning. It’s been...
by Marijke McCandless | Jan 29, 2025 | Juicy Practices Newsletter
Hello Reader! In my early twenties, I considered myself chubby. It wasn’t a label anyone gave me, but rather one I had absorbed after a sports injury in my early teens affecting my growth plate forced me into a doctor-prescribed year of near-total inactivity. By...
by Marijke McCandless | Jan 22, 2025 | Juicy Practices Newsletter
Hello Reader! I found myself gently smiling on my hands and knees today. A small bowl of warm, soapy water and a wet and dry rag sat by my side as I scrubbed the Saltillo tiles of our rental casa in Loreto Bay. I’d just come from a writing and awareness class...
by Marijke McCandless | Jan 5, 2025 | Juicy Practices Newsletter
Hello Reader! Summer 1982. Jay and I were backpacking through Europe on a $5-a-day budget. With our Eurail pass in hand, we often took night trains to save money, sleeping in our seats or on the floors of train stations. It was an adventure of improvisation and...
