I have a joke in my pilot that got passed on that I have to leave here because it’s as close to a quote unquote political joke as I’ll probably ever get. A Seattle based …
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the only thing I know
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Bekah Place of the Burning
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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but the sea turtles
I think every generation has some specific environmental catastrophe awareness hammered into them in elementary school, and for mine, it was how you have to cut the little plastic rings that come around soda cans, …
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A Spider
I don’t claim to fully grasp the intricacies of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, but it does seem like when Palestine throws a rock over the fence, Israel drops an 800 pound bomb on …
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in a name
Sometimes I’ll experience a singular life moment, and afterwards I’ll be like: I didn’t get any pictures of it! And then I realize it’s because I was too busy….living it? If you get a picture …
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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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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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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 …
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non-nutritive sucking
I have officially acquired a Master’s Degree in Lactation from the University of Google And that one Lactation Consultant I think I met in the Hospital, or what she a Dream? It’s an incredibly easy …
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The Secret: Dare to Stream
Last Friday night, quietly, secretly, pandemically, my first ever movie — an adaptation of the self-help book The Secret — started streaming on itunes and Amazon Prime. Many movies that were scheduled for theatrical releases …