lifestyle
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A Requiem for a slow(ish) Winter
Today is finally spring! It’s felt like it for a while here in AZ, of course, but there’s something about the finality of the changing seasons. Winter is supposed to be the time to slow down, but for the most part, this season has been one of the busiest I’ve ever had. I traveled for… Continue reading
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On Changing my Entire Outlook on Life
(Or, trying to, anyway) On the day after Christmas last year, my sister Brittany and I spent an afternoon in downtown Temecula fantasizing over the lives we wanted desperately to manifest for ourselves. It was one of those perfect days when I could feel the core memory forming as it happened. I remember thinking how… Continue reading
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on Failing NaNoWriMo Just to Feel Something
from sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes, i gave my blood sweat and tears for this.i hosted parties and starved my body like i’d be saved by a perfect kiss.the jokes weren’t funny.i took the money.my friends back home don’t know what to say.i looked around in a blood-soaked gown and i saw something they can’t… Continue reading
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Virgo szn
I think this time invites a sort of self-reflection. We love to measure things. Here’s an opportunity for a tangible goal to be set, complete with a concrete deadline! I am this person now. By the end of the year, I’ll be her. The last day of summer is like New Year’s Eve. Anticipatory, but… Continue reading
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Eating tour of Tacoma, Public Transit Style
(But it gets progressively more unhinged) Before my recent trip to Tacoma for a writing residency, I researched restaurants for days. All I wanted was to eat some good PNW seafood on a patio by the Sound (that I could squeeze into a day of airports, trains, and busses). I even considered adding two extra… Continue reading
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I’m doing good, I’m on some new shit.
(If you remember back before I started half caring about SEO when all my post titles were T Swift or FOB lyrics, you a real one.) This was gonna be a can’t-believe-I’ve-been-a-fake-blogger-for-six-years anniversary post on June 20th, my lil’ website’s birthday. Then, it was gonna be a Happy Half New Year post on July 1st,… Continue reading
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About the author (lol) on her 27th birthday
Here’s how it works: I write a few blog posts. I change my whole website’s branding. I update my out-of-date bio. I don’t post again for a whole year. Repeat. The cycle continues. Five years pass. And now I’m 27 and done with my MFA and actively working toward finishing my first book and trying… Continue reading
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12 Things
Hello internet friends! It’s been a while and I’ve had the urge lately to resurrect the blog, so I thought I’d do an Amber Fillerup style 12 things post. Here’s a few little updates on some things that have happened since I was on here last! 1. Biggest news first—after finding out my thesis was… Continue reading
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The Carrying-On: Continuing to create when you’re feeling silenced.
Another writer asked me the other day if “the misery of writing when the social fabric is unraveling” gets in the way of my creative process. He asked me this because I write things so imbedded in the current cultural climate. I was really struck by this question, mostly because I’ve never really considered my… Continue reading
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