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• What I Should Have Said to You, 2012

  December 16, 2012

  Every year I go back through my experiences and jot down anonymous open letters to people I love, people I loathe and people I should have shut down if only I'd been able to think of a cool retort in time. This is where I put them. I don't know YOU and you don't know…

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• Gwendolyn Was Here

  July 11, 2012

  I believe the world went a shade darker today with the loss of another brilliant soul. I met Gwen here at OD, and always admired her kindness, optimism and intelligence. There was something so...bright about her, even when she was sad or discouraged. She was an encouragement to me, and her commen...

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• Repair, Recall, Replace

  March 8, 2012

  It was good. Hours ago, it was fine and good and sweet. Then just like that—kablammo! I find myself clattering back to earth in a defeated heap. I knew I would. The machinery of my heart has fallen to such disuse, become so fractured, rusted and dusty that I should have known better. Had I…

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• I Thought We Were Done With This Nonsense

  January 5, 2012

  Oh shit, here it comes again.Stupid and self-indulgent,mountains out of molehills;make a scene, Drama Queen.          Because I post here, I don't really have anything to post here. I might try someday anyway. . I don't accept notes, but that doesn't mean you can't comment.

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• For the Record: How I Broke Up with my Life

  December 9, 2011

  This is the first part. Somewhere between red flag four and the next paragraph, there was a bad night. Bad nights were by this time not unusual, but this bad night probably stands out in my mind because it was the bad night where I decided I couldn't and wouldn't have any more bad nights.…

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• Canis Interruptus

  October 26, 2011

  [Ed. note: Over the past year my neighborhood has experienced a significant rise in coyote activity. They are audacious critters, as my unfortunate neighbors and their cat discovered one afternoon.]A napping cat, cat-napped, wrenched roughly from its sunny, back-porchslumber to sate the mid-day m...

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• Dear Mister Mayor

  October 21, 2011

  We virgins swear to Jesusthese trollops, tramps and teasesare giving us a racy reputation.The tightness of their pantsand permission in their glanceinvite the fairer sex’s degradation.The bumping and the grinding,the stop-or-you’ll-go-blinding,included in their free-of-charge flirtationare everyw...

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• Good Enough, Part I

  July 30, 2011

  For most of my life – as far as I can remember anyway – I’ve been certain on an inarguable, subconscious level that people don’t actually like me. I'm not an Eeyore, honestly, no matter how that sounds. It’s just that this has been thorn in my side I’m trying hard to grasp and remove,…

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• By the Skin of My Teeth

  July 9, 2011

  I have no support network. Nothing solid, anyway. Nothing that would reinforce my hold if I should start to lose my grip, and the way I'm pushing myself...I have to wonder. What's my problem, anyway? I've isolated myself from my friends, tightly controlling every opportunity for interaction. I've...

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