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Familiar Faces
Social media is a strange beast. And having been a lover of social media for a long time, I can’t help but feel deeply disappointed in the ways in which it has evolved, and the directions it seems to be going. But I’m not writing about this complicated evolution this time. Instead, I want to…
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Daily Writing Prompt #4
Since time immemorial, the kitchen has been considered a sort of “heart of the home”; the activities going on here are the central chores that enable us to go about the rest of our days, our bellies full and warm. You can even see our societies’ changing values over class, race, gender, families, and a…
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Social Media and Surviving January
In my ever-growing urge to separate myself from social media, or at least specific types of social media, I find myself still yearning to share the mundane aspects of my life. I think much of that feeling comes from a place of habit. I’ve grown up with social media, and its a given that you…
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Wrestling with Words
I struggle with writing, but it’s all I want to do. The ideas I wish to explore, manifest at the most inopportune of times—in the shower, moments from falling asleep, inebriated by two glasses of wine. I wish I was one of those writers who can sit down in front of their notebook/computer/typewriter and just…
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Once I Started a Poem with…
Once, while dancing the dance with some form of intoxication, I started a poem with: “I tasted God in a peach”. And, now, semi-sober, I find the whole idea quite bemusing. The implication of not only touching God but of tasting them too, as if they could possibly be something my measly tastebuds could fathom,…
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Daily Writing Prompt #3
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” — Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II Names are a funny thing—everyone’s got one. Most of us don’t even choose our own, yet we’re content with what we’ve been labelled. We even build entire personalities around…
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