Life
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It’s March, which is both the month of my birth and Women’s History Month. Both of those things mean there’s something worth celebrating. But it occurred to me, as I was reading different things about women who have done this or that—made a name for themselves, become known for their work to help others—and even…
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For the curious, my long absence has come largely from the fact that I did indeed finish my classes, after which I relocated back home to California. I managed to keep myself going through that grueling hardware class, and ended my final semester of the two years I spent at TCC with a 4.0, which…
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So it’s been a good while since I’ve made an update, and I apologize for that. In the last few months, school has gone from interesting to abysmal, and most of my free time has been devoted to language study. When I first went to college over a decade ago, it was with the desire…
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Hello, Stress. I haven’t missed you, because you never go away long enough to be missed. Thankfully, my heart is still feeling well, despite complications with the drugs they have me on, but that leaves me more time to focus on mundane stresses. School is mostly busywork this semester with no real challenges, I’ve been…
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Sometimes I need a reminder as regards not just the beauty of the world, but the beauty of its tapestry, the spun consequence of those things we use the inadequacy of the English language to describe: darkness and light, mortality and the spirit. (Dress them up in fancier terms and they suffer no less for…
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I don’t relish having to come here and make the following post, in part because I don’t like acknowledging—much less discussing—my physical issues. I don’t suppose this makes for the most compelling of blog posts, either. But if I’m honest, the real reason for my reticence is that I don’t want to think about all…
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TFMA is dead. Long live Bookruptcy. Having exhausted my resources trying to bail out the boat in which TFMA had gradually been sinking (apparently a lost cause, according to my personal experience and my helpful-but-hopeless host), it became clear that a change was needed. That change is Bookruptcy, the website where you find yourself now;…
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Not only is my landlady loud, messy, and difficult to live with, she’s also absolutely convinced of her own intelligence and altruism. Except she probably doesn’t know what either word means, as per a short exchange we had when I first moved in: LL: “So you’re a writer. What do you write?” Me: “Fiction.” LL:…