Tag: writing
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#6. Your skin will peel Everyone will want to know if the flakes are colored. They are. Don’t pick them. Read more: 13 Things I learned from getting my first tattoo
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A few years before I moved out of my mother’s house, hummingbirds started nesting in the roof. One, above the front door. Another in the backyard just above the kitchen window. I don’t have a single memory of what they looked like. I didn’t stop to really look. But my mother loved them, and she […]
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The brain holds on to memories but so does the body. This morning I drove alone to work and I was struck by the feeling, delirious with it, that I was headed to Utah, my mother beside me. I tried to figure out what it was – the sunrise ahead of me, the particular chill […]
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Beards and a chance to hide yourself
Like everyone, I am partial to having really weird thoughts. Earlier this week, I thought: I really like being a lady, but I kind of wish I could have a beard. Beards via Style has never been something super important to me, but lately I’ve been thinking about what do I *like* wearing, what makes […]
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Nothing I plant lives. I have tried the indestructible: basil, mint, zucchini. “Be careful,” they tell me. “They will overrun your garden.” I kill them. I buy eggplant, tomato, chives, parsley. I buy aloe. They wilt in the sunlight, in the water-love, in the soil. I try again. I plant flowers. I raise beds. I […]
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Grieving, in-process
My mom died on January 10th. I guess you could say that means I’m in the process of grieving. Grieving looks different from how I imagined it. I am not immobile in my bed. I am not bursting into tears at inopportune times. My eyes well up when I talk about my mom. I don’t like […]
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The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison This book was really powerful for me. It’s a series of essays that starts with the author describing her experience as a Medical Actor – someone who plays a patient with a script of symptoms and issues that a doctor in training must then diagnose. It continues on to […]
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What I’ve written lately
3 Amazon Echo features that will blow your mind, and 5 it still needs Mark became a beta tester for the Amazon Echo, so I wrote up a review of what I liked and didn’t like about it. 16 Cheryl Strayed quotes that will make you want to tackle the motherfucking shit out of life (err… […]
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Things I’ve written lately
I worked with the design team at SheKnows to create these awesome pumpkin carving templates: Pop culture pumpkin carving templates only adults can appreciate I was asked to share my “love story” – a phrase I have never used without sarcasm regarding my marriage: I got married at 17 to a man I met in […]
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