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Monthly Archives: March 2015

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#booklover

I tried this accidentally a few years ago. It worked. 

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The Mostly Definitive Break Up Album List

Ed note: Today, something a little different. My date from Maine, Sean, and I have stayed in touch since we met in a little brick bowling alley. His passion for music keeps me coming back to his Facebook page because I know hanging around there will introduce me to new bands I’ll probably like. Sean […]

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The 50 Dates Fear Machine

Pretty much since Megan and I took off up I-5 toward Portland, Oregon, a snake-like thought has hissed in the back of mind mind. Sometimes it’s a gardner snake, a tickling whisp easy enough to ignore. Sometimes it’s a party snake in a can that can simply be giggled at. But sometimes it’s a venomous […]

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How I Wanted to Love – And How I Do Now

Within two laps, the chlorinated water had numbed my lips the way thousands of kisses all in a row would, but I barely noticed. The bilateral pulse of arms was hypnotizing my mind into a blank space, where recent events were able to unfold without judgment or emotion. Like a free-style zombie, I replayed a […]

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This is How it Works

Been listening to this on repeat. …This is how it works You’re young until you’re not You love until you don’t You try until you can’t You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You […]

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Still the Somewhat Not Storybook Girl

The kitchen was steeped with the smell of blooming lilacs, their purple, bushy-tail tips peeking up behind the open screen. Betty, my grandmother, looked at teenage me quizzically, her head tilted like a curious robin. And at 15, she was right to have that look. My long, frizzy hair was parted down the middle making me […]

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Tiny Moments

While listening to This American Life’s Radio Drama* episode, I was struck by something Mike Birbiglia said during Act II: Of Mice and Men: That one of the best things about being in a relationship is the inside jokes you have that are only funny to the two of you. He goes on to discuss “Catssachusetts” briefly, […]

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Heartbeats and Mistaken Identities

There’s an arc to a crush. The slow build, the death-not-defying drop, the re-stabilization. If plotted on a graph, it would look something like a heartbeat. And not much about a crush has changed since high school, especially when the crush in question is in your neighborhood, on your daily path. You do the dance of […]

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