Category: Personal Essay
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With the state of the world such as it is, I look to Log Cabin syrup to bring some sense of peace. I guess I always have. I would consider it one of my favorite food packaging labels of all time. “What a lunatic,” someone might say. “Who could possibly…
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The mountains in Albuquerque are to the east. In most places I’ve lived, they were to the west. I always found that to be a bit strange, but maybe it’s not. But I was on the east side of Albuquerque, close to the mountains, when I was suddenly struck with…
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+ Albuquerque, Cocoa Puffs, French Fries, Gallup, Indian School Road, Milky Way, Nob Hill, Pharmacy, Sandia Mountains+
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I hate summer. Summer is a battle for me. I am like opposite bear and want to hibernate May through August – in a cave of ice, with a frosty mug of A and W root beer, my laptop, and really good internet service.
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+ Beach Volleyball, Convertible, Greg Brady, Heat, Iceland, Lake Michigan, Root Beer, Snow, Summer, Tennessee, Thanksgiving, Wisconsin+
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She came down from the sky on a glowing escalator and I waited for her in the parking lot. But sometimes I think she was maybe there all along, maybe my entire life and I just didn’t see her because they can be invisible. She looks human. She has all…
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Most days of the week, I watch an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants with my 20-year-old stepson. It’s his favorite show, and he’s loved it since he was a child. I think he knows the title of every episode and what season it first aired.
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+ Autism, Danny Phantom, Dustin Hoffman, John Deere, Power Outage, Rain Man, SpongeBob, Storms, Tom Cruise, Toronto+
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Two years straight and it still feels like the very first time I touched her. We drifted off clutching each other tight. Then we turned to sleep, our asses touching, the warmth of her back like a campfire. I listened to her breathe as I looked up at the purple…
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+ Amarillo, Book Store, Catfish, Emotional Strife, Feckless, Kerouac, Love, Marillion, Nashville, Ocean Water, Volcano, Waffles+
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The street was fairly quiet save for a few trailing screams of fun and joy bursting forth from the mouths of neighborhood kids down the way. They were wearing candied bullet-proof vests while riding their bikes. A big airplane moaned as it crawled across the sky above me. I watched…
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+ Children in the Clouds, Hansel and Gretel, House Fire, Madness, Saints and Sinners, Sanka, Sick Society, Suspicion, Texas School Shooting, Writing+
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CEREAL AFTER SEX 