Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for March 29, 2023

She went through that mid-life change.

Might want to update your photo as well.

Took a sabbatical to reorganize their life.

What—you don’t have a dormant phase?

Upgrading talents by learning to fly.

Re-inventing myself.

she decided to just hang out for a while and make some changes

Couldn’t be the butterfly he/she is now without taking that “time off”.

The education section just reads: Star Pupal.

For chrysalis, why are you picking on me?

Aaaaah. Sir, I was evolving.

During the crisis she was cocooning.

“Yes, that was my gap year which I spent in a pupa exchange program.”

“But, you’re a beetle, you must know how hard it is to grub along, and how you need some time to bury in, rest, and stay in place until you can face the world as a true adult. "