Things people say
There are those things people say or do that we remember as acutely as how it made us feel. The question is, "so what?"
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Hello, I'm...
- Jul 17, 2020
- 6 min
In the darkness, meet your neighbors
I had never met the neighbors upstairs, despite sharing an electric bill and a staircase. It took a cold night to meet them—here's how.
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Hello, I'm...
- May 9, 2020
- 5 min
She who laughs last laughs loudest
I thought the city was sleeping—including David. Quiet mornings were the silver lining to a reality trapped behind the bars of quarantine...
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- Apr 25, 2020
- 9 min
A Saturday unlike any other
Those once-in-a-lifetime experiences are where the universe takes it up a notch. These are experiences that can’t be slipped so easily...
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- Dec 15, 2019
- 4 min
Love and lettuce
Our intention? Discuss matters of womanhood and bask in my newfound singleness. Our experience? Everything to do with love and lettuce.
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- Oct 7, 2019
- 3 min
What it is to escort for sport
Ever stop to think how "escort" is pronounced differently when used as a noun or a verb? Great word. Better story—give it a read!
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- Sep 22, 2019
- 4 min
The regeneration of ego
Discovering self-validation is like your ego's pubescent awakening...just as gripping, just as messy.
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- Jul 27, 2019
- 4 min
What do robots and bloody noses have in common?
It had been another 90 minutes of drills. We were at the end of my vocal lesson, discussing what I would work on next, when a seemingly...
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- Jun 11, 2019
- 5 min
Cocacolitas
I thought I was having some sort of attack. My whole body was shaking, and passersby were starting to turn their heads...
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- Apr 28, 2019
- 5 min
Smoke bomb burning and language learning
The bus had just left me. Seated on the outskirts of the Munich station, with the characteristic briskness of the first days of November,...
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Hello, I'm...
- Apr 5, 2019
- 3 min
Surveys and speeches
We walked from house to house, knocking on doors and explaining ourselves. Our purpose was to determine how much water was being wasted...
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- Apr 3, 2019
- 3 min
Paper agendas
Hi! It’s Alex. When you have second, could you please confirm my appointment time for tomorrow? It was a habit I’d gotten into. My phone...
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- Mar 12, 2019
- 5 min
On bridges and in bathrooms
Some of our deepest and most brilliant ideas go off like bath bombs when we're in the shower. I feel especially keen to revisit moments...
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- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
The woman with the mole had a point
Junior year lit class, 1979. The scene, a parochial high school in the Midwest on a warm spring day. The buzzer hums, signaling that...
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- Mar 3, 2019
- 2 min
"You" and "I"
Have you ever tried having a conversation where you deliberately avoid using the word "I?" Maybe you think you talk about yourself too...
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