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Hartland
It has been years, but feels so close All my kindness Taken for weakness Wrestled from me to preserve you To mold the clay So it would stay Afloat, drifting, Full heart ahead, though missed the boat It was your highway. Your ship. Your steering. Friends and family cheering. No warning. Not a blip. Oh,…
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Debut
“[W]hat seems foreign might not be any stranger than the familiar, if [you’re] willing to look closely.” —Eddie Huang, as quoted in Time, February 2015 I lived abroad during my junior year in college and while I received college credits for my academic work, I feel the most valuable part of my experience was exploring…
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Today’s Lifestyle Column: Gaslighting by Proxy
Out of the mouths of babes. As our children speak innocently and intelligently about their world, I also hear you, your opinions, your judgements, your disgust in their voices. My responses to them now are what I said to you then. My feelings and interpretation of life’s events matter too. They get that. You said,…
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Teacup
Sweet, warm peace. Morning comfort, warmth, forward Scoop, scoop, scoop, steamy, swirly On the surface, it calls me to “Enjoy the little things.” Command or question? Endless loop of should, should, should. Drive to drown in my teacup Don’t go there. Return to the staccato of steel drums at sunrise. Ceramic reverberations, undulations. The undoing?…
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Some truths selon moi
“The reason life works at all is because not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day.” —Anne Lamott
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Quotes That Inspire Me
“It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.” Bernard Berenson “We will never have a perfect world, but it is not naive or romantic to work…
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Dating?
I don’t even like saying that “I dated” someone. Feels so hokey – the whole world of matching up with people. Of searching for that right person. I was not raised on Catholicism or Disney fairytales, yet I feel the societal pressure from movies/how women are portrayed. My parents never told me to wait for…
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That stuff I need to say
It seemed like there was a theme to my blog, right? That’s me wanting to have organization and something to hang together. What I struggle with is there are other things I want to write about, but I am afraid. Afraid of comments, afraid that however I am feeling right now will not be how…
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When Things Are Not What They Seem
A tiny shot of excitement pulsed through me upon seeing the half-eaten baked good sitting on the top shelf of my fridge at 6 a.m. Behold, a gnawed-upon donut sans wrapping or containment of any sort. Hastily abandoned by some ten year-old sticky fingers just before being called to brush their teeth last night. I…
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That moment when. . .
. . .your husband gives you a dish drainer for Christmas. Me: A predictable, immediate obligatory grateful-for-the-gift face, followed by a flash of WTF face, and quickly ending with raised eyebrows and an awkward toothy smile. You: Utter disgust at my reaction. Disgusted that I am not grateful or excited to receive this holiday gift.…
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