Category: Life & Perspective
Identity, change, relationships, the absurdities of being human
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What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you? I could tell you to save money. Wear sunscreen. Take the pictures, even when you don’t like how you look in them. All solid advice. None of it is the thing I most wish I’d understood earlier. I would tell you that the life…
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Come sit a spell. We need to talk about pet peeves. Not the important things. There are plenty of genuinely terrible things happening in the world, and I am capable of having proportionate, adult reactions to those. This is not about those things. This is about the tiny, relatively harmless behaviors that cause an entirely…
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What’s one thing that would instantly improve your city? Population reduction, Thanos style.There. I said it.I hate to sound like the old lady sitting on her porch, shaking her fist at traffic, but there are too damn many people around here.Before anyone becomes alarmed, I am not actually advocating for the Infinity Gauntlet. I don’t…
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What’s the longest trip you’ve ever taken? Today’s writing prompt seemed easy enough.What’s the longest trip you’ve ever taken?Alaska.Six months.Done.Except six months is long enough that I’m not entirely sure Alaska qualifies as a trip. At some point, when you know where to buy groceries and have developed opinions about local roads, you may have…
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I don’t care what people think of me. I mean that. Mostly. I have reached an age where I can leave the house without makeup, wear what I want, say what I think, and generally allow other people’s opinions of me to remain their problem. It took me a long time to get here, and…
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Who is your favorite cartoon character? View all responses My favorite cartoon character has always been Tinker Bell. But I feel like I need to clarify something. Not the nice one. I mean the original Tinker Bell. The tiny blonde in the green dress from Peter Pan. The jealous one. The petty one. The one…
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Come sit a spell. I have recently encountered some information that has caused me to question everything we’ve been taught about prehistoric civilization. It started with dinner. More specifically, it started with the fact that I wasn’t cooking it. This was apparently unexpected news to the man in my house. Now, before anyone becomes concerned,…
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I have tossed plenty of books in my life. In frustration, in anger, in absurdity…. But only two stand out in my memory as books I threw. Not casually tossed aside. Thrown. My Sister’s Keeper went flying because I was furious. I had invested myself in those characters, in that impossible family, in all that…
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We need to talk about it. Come sit a spell. I have paid the bills. Not a bill. The bills. Electricity. Water. Gas. Insurance. Car. House. Money has been electronically dispatched in every direction necessary to maintain my continued participation in modern civilization. And I would like some recognition. Not a parade. That would be…
Y'all Come Sit a Spell 