Womancake Magazine

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Weekend Bathroom Revamp: A Midlife Reckoning

Womancake's Managing Editor dives into a hell of a project

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Johanna Dokken
May 08, 2023
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It is Sunday morning and I am all up in my head, trying to rationalize how arching over the toilet to paint the wall behind it might be meditative. I am enclosed in a bathroom swathed in blue tape seams, the breeze of the open window barely making a dent in the fumes of yesterday's painting bender. My arms are sore and I can still see a halo of the form…

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