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Don’t Blame the Internet

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Despite being in my thirties, I occasionally feel like an elderly man when I tell someone younger than me that we once had to pay an hourly fee to access the internet. It’s deeply strange, although not as strange as the fact that when I was a child we simply... Read More

Physical Affection Has That Personal Touch

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"I have a problem with people ascribing bright colors and fun subject matter to children only. Who decided that! A really boring person probably and that's not who my pieces are for."

300(ish) Words on Quietly Dropping Things

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I like to think of a quietly dropped heaven (not purgatory!) where two episodes of a podcast idea, a well-intentioned weekly game night, or a writer’s group that met up four times all exist clumsily and excitedly together.

300(ish) Words: A Love Letter to 2004

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You’re 8 years old sifting through your closet of glitter-encrusted handbags, metallic threaded scarves, and Limited Too T-shirts printed with slogans like “Girls rule, boys drool” and “Life of the party.”

Little Mind Vacation: Trashy Lingerie and Love Motel Inspiration

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“We’re here at Trashy Lingerie, and to me, this is livin’ large,” Carmen Electra says she invites us into L.A.’s Trashy Lingerie, that magnifique pink store with thin, red font on La Cienega. Randomly, we thought of “Veronica’s Closet,” that NBC sitcom with Kirstie Alley that aired for three seasons... Read More