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On Learning About Parallel Play
In the evenings, when I’m curled up on the couch, a cat on my one side my partner on the other, it’s quiet in our home. You can hear me typing away at my computer, writing for some project I have in the works, or playing Sims 4. You can also hear my partner sketching…
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Avoiding the Itch
(Originally written April 1, 2024) I have two five-day-old tattoos. One in the ditch of my left elbow, the other near my left wrist. As of this afternoon, they have officially reached the itchy phase. The itchy phase is exactly what it sounds like, my tattoos have healed enough that the scabs are now beginning…
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Memories of Snow
When the snow was thick and plush, we would don our snowsuits, boots and gloves and venture outdoors to the great winter abyss of our acreage. Our small childhood bodies would shake with the excitement of building snow forts and snowmen. We didn’t care that our knees would be soaked through within minutes or that…
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Our Friend the Forest Mouse
The woods leaned heavily as the wind whipped through the trees. Their branches creaking and whimpering in pain as elbows knocked into one another. The incoming storm filled the air with a charge. Our friend, the forest mouse, could feel the static dance across his brown fur, making the hairs stand at attention. Nervously, he…
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Questions for the Confession Booth
What do the church janitors whisper when they clean the confession booths? Do they ever find strangers’ forgotten items? A tube of chapstick slipped from a pocket. A wad of tissue crumpled and warm. A carving of two lover’s initials. The wood stained from hundreds of hands and asses. Something sticky in the corner. They…
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Talking Politics at Dinner
I’ve always been one who jumps head-first into political discourse. A fair discussion/debate has always been entertaining for me. I like making connections between our current socioeconomic issues and philosophy and history and religion and societal expectations. But lately, with the divisive nature of people’s opinions and the abundance of misinformation, these conversations are increasingly…
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