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15 minutes before I have to get my brain up and moving for a 2-part science lesson on fake dinosaur tracks for an eighth grader. This gets me up at 7, bleary eyed and exhausted from a creaking bed, my dog confused and offended that he must begin his daily herding of humans a full…
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And so here we are. Back after a long hiatus of working on things in the comforting dark of internet obscurity and not sharing. Because it’s none of your business, really, this voyeuristic/narcissistic practice of journaling to the internet for a like or two. But I must, right? I’m a writer, and what’s the point…
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Life is a series of deaths, the most devastating of which occurs upon deciding there is nothing more worth learning. No opinions worth hearing that don’t validate your own, no more care for why the grass is green, for the stories the constellations are named for, for the sleeping giants in the museums. This is…
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Soup was the first food I learned how to make myself — chicken noodle, dumped from the can and into a pot and heated so my mom could wash her hands of me and return to work with a closed office door. Then began the raids on the spice cabinet: oregano, cayenne pepper, nutmeg for…
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The modern age is oft set on attaching our identities to objects. The things we own, the things we buy, what we can and can’t afford, and what that says about us to the culture as a whole. Objects act as our flags of wealth, identifiers. Find your aesthetic, your wardrobe staples, decorate in farmhouse…
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Societal decay begins with the erasure of complexity and nuance, and ends with brand loyalty. Your Gucci t-shirt was made in the same sweatshop as the Shein knock off, then marked up $100. The woman working 16 hours a day to afford food for her children isn’t going to see a cent of that good…
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Last night I stood on my balcony and watched the light of a wildfire crest one of the foothills that grace the horizon. This morning I awoke with woodsmoke in my lungs and a haze across the sky. Soon, the sun will turn red. When I go to work later today, I will leave this…
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This is a review of Longlegs. !!!Major spoilers for the entire movie ahead, reader beware!!! There’s been an uptick in the amount of media featuring satanic concepts lately, some well-done and others lacking in nuance in a way that might have been fine in the 80’s, but grates nowadays. Longlegs is, unfortunately, in the “lacking…
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I missed yesterday’s prompt because of its eyerolling assumption of comfort as king. I needed to sleep on it, consider why it made me groan aloud when I first saw it at 8:30 in the morning on a Tuesday. There is nothing wrong with curling up on the couch, tucked away from the heat of…
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I like to joke that I majored in climate anxiety. An ecology degree has done nothing for my job prospects, and an unquenchable curiosity about how the modern world works does very little to ease any of the existential ennui I live with day after day. In order to cope, I tend to go out…
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