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Flash Memoir: Windows, Poetry and Eyes
Windows were the main driver of everything and it's just now dawned on me that maybe we were searching for light after such a dark time.
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I'm Done With Heels
Part rant, part resignation and a whole bunch of links I've been wanting to share for weeks!
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Flash Memoir: A Roof Before the Rain
How babies are like the weather
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A New Friend I Never Met
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Run Club
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Flash Memoir: U-Haul
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I'm Done With Heels
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Flash Memoir: Foundations
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With Gratitude
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I'm Done With Heels
Part rant, part resignation and a whole bunch of links I've been wanting to share for weeks!
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Run Club
At 5:30 on a Tuesday morning, cold and dark, and I was in a high school parking lot, nervously stepping from foot to foot. A few weeks before, I reached…
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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
I wasn’t even going to put up a tree until Nick pointed out I was being a bit of a Grinch. The space feels a little more festive, but this is still a…
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Favorite Books of 2023
a curation
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With Gratitude
A man I know likes to say, “Happy people are grateful people, and those that aren’t… aren’t.” In the years since I got sober, I’ve picked up a few…
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I Love a Good Epigraph
a promise to the reader Today, I want to talk about the epigraph —not to be confused with an epitaph, which is a whole other thing.
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Loss + Finding Home

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