Brunstetter comes from the German surname Brandstetter, which loosely means ‘place of the burning,’ because our ancestors cleared fields for crops with fire. I know this only because of my grandfather Richard Place of the …
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Bekah Place of the Burning
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Away Message
Sorry I can’t respond to you right now. I’ve just realized that there will come a point in time when I’m not supposed to kiss his elbows, or smell his ears, or squeeze his thighs, …
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Robot Assistants
Taking Joe for a walk early this morning, we were trailed by a Garbage truck, groaning and shouting itself as it digested its chicken bones and pieces of computer and documents and what sounded like …
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Blogs are the new Bangs
It has occurred to me recently that blogging kind of peaked around 2015 and is no longer cool anymore, and instead everyone is tweeting and twitting and twerking and fracking and tik toking. Instead of …
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a motive
When asked about his motive, the gunman replied, from his hospital bed: I can’t remember when or why, I — I think it was because my father died, or my mother, or both, or my …
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The Mammogram
Long before I ever wrote plays, I fancied myself a Poet. This fancy did not last long as I was brutally REJECTED by the honors poetry track in college, for my collection that I’m pretty …
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The Grays
One fun product of Pandemic and Pandemic pregnancy is my insane new hair, which is a fun combo of a year sans haircut, weird post-pregnancy baby hairs, lack of ever Doing hair Hair, frequency of …
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we Do what we Do
My new favorite superhero action movie is actually a Netflix docuseries about doctors at a hospital in Manhattan: an OB who delivers babies while carrying her own, an ER doctor who is moreso a social …
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American
As America became a Borat Movie of Itself, I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: If those that stormed the capital perceive themselves to be Americans defending democracy, and us Donkeys or moderate Donkey hybrids perceive OURSELVES …
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hindsight is 2020
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years. It has been a devastating year for many, I want to first acknowledge that. But looking back, I feel OH SO FORTUNATE that …