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Nov 19, 2019
Opening Scene: A middle-class chain restaurant, general chatter. Televisions above the bar displays a news program. Frank Underwood’s face is in a smal…
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Jul 14, 2018
I was originally going to call this post ‘pissed’, but there’s something about calling a thing a thing and then it becoming that thing. I call myself ‘…
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Dec 17, 2017
This blog troubles me sometimes. I want to write and publish so much, but I can’t right now. {I’ll explain later.} There are things I can write about, …
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Oct 15, 2016
do not stop. do not stop because you think you won’t make enough money, because you’re afraid of what people will say, because you’re not sure you’re {…
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Sep 28, 2016
The main character in a novel I’m working on goes through a lot of the same stuff I went through as a kid and young adult. I never considered how I wou…
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Sep 17, 2016
I’m writing my first book. It started with an idea I had, one that I wanted to explore. I was curious about what people do when they have to figure shi…
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Sep 1, 2016
Update 08/28/16: added a reference to the term ‘microaggression‘. I’m just a woman who publishes blog posts inconsistently, but if someone were to look…
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Aug 26, 2016
In our house, it was safest to stay quiet. It wasn’t just about being seen and not heard. Sometimes it was safer to not be seen or heard. Our education…
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Aug 18, 2016
It’s weird that this and this happened in the time I was working on this post… *pregnant pause* Hopefully calling out this behaviour will both embarras…
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Apr 21, 2016
This has been my pattern over the last five or six years: get a new job, move, move again, get a new job. And although some people would say this is no…
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Feb 2, 2016
Is it me? Or is everyone using those “SUBSCRIBE!” pop-ups on their blog? You know the ones: you land on a blog page from Google and get ready to leave …
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Jan 6, 2016
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