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Twist the Bottle, Not the Cork
yet another one of those "what I learned" in the 2020 hellscape
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FORTY EIGHT
I spent so much of 2019 trying to come up with reasons to stay alive. Some days I didn’t have any. So I white knuckled it. I had spent 40 of my 47 years…
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It's Been a Good Run
Will hates when I say that. (Hated when I say that?) I know it sounds cold, it sounds flippant, it sounds disrespectful. Especially to someone I was…
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I'm Fine.
I got whistled at the other day. In a mask, in my pajamas, in that early-morning state where you’re walking the dog and wonder am I wearing underwear? I…
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Dreams
Some people are having vivid pandemic dreams. Me? I’m following up #bedwine with a melatonin chaser. I used to wake up at 5:03am four days a week. Today…
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Outside
I went outside today. Not just “outside.” But, y’know, outside. I hadn’t been out in 21 days as I got sick on March 13th and began self-isolation. So…
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Definitely Not a Robot
Whereupon our intrepid slackmistress has learned something. Maybe?
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Thoughts From 16 Days and 2049 Miles
I ran away from home. It’s not the first time I’ve done it. The summer before I turned nine, my older brother injured his knee playing pop warner…
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