Me: I’ve been thinking a lot about self centeredness. Wondering if I am that. But, am I not innately self centered, as I inhabit MYSELF, therefore, I am of course centered around myself, as I …
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He calls it
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Life is fine
Today, I like this poem. I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! …
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THE CALENDARS!
From like 1992-2000, EVERY CHRISTMAS, I made my grandparents a calendar, marked with the birthdays of all of their kids and grandkids, and most importantly, with drawings for each month. I remember making them with …
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Jeannine
My granddad’s lovely wife of many years, Jeannine, passed away yesterday, after finding out five months ago that she was quite, as I’m pretty sure she put it, ‘full a cancer.’ She was endlessly loving, …
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Socrates.
Today on If I Could Turn back Time: Socrates. I don’t mean like I want to bounce back 24 hundred years, grab a toga and hang out / feed each other grapes. I mean high …
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Tourism!
It’s strange being a tourist in a town where I lived for eight years, but I figured, what the hey. Let’s do all the things. When you actually live in a place, rarely do you …
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On why to talk to your Grandparents
When I was younger, I don’t think I connected with my grandparents. I loved them, and they loved me, it is an unconditional, less complicated love, but there wasn’t much deep discussion. When my Grandma died …
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here is my essay on Privilege
The internets are a buzz with this Time Article, Why I’ll Never Apologize for my White Privilege. It’s written by a freshman at Princeton, who is very much just learning how to use his big words. …
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LADIES; SKITTLES FOREVER
Whenever there’s a new production of Be A Good Little Widow, two things definitely happen, aside from my standard back row hair-chewing and nostalgia / longing for days of just plays. I always meet two …
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the what and the why
A Fedex truck crosses lanes and slams into Bus full of prospective low income and FIRST GENERATION ATTENDEE COLLEGE HOPEFULS en route to visit a university, see about scholarships, etc, killing 10 of these prospective …