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book review: me before you
Title: Me Before You Author: Jojo Moyes Genre: Literature and Fiction Publishing Date: 2012 REVIEW Favorite Quote: “Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let...
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loose lips sink (relation)ships
Did she whisper “our secret” as hands began to roam? Did she murmur “don’t worry” as text lit up your phone? Did she mouth into darkness “don’t think of her at all”? While frozen at our table, I waited...
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red is the new black
We used to offer Thanks on a well-fed Thursday in late November. Encroached by big business clamoring for profit, feast turned to famine. Now parents working extra shifts (to afford merry surprises)...
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when words fail
My glazed eyes blink; the page stays blank. I have no pointed answers. I’m whittled out. Hollowed. Forty-two words are far too few To contain her wisdom, her truths. Just as fifty-seven years were too...
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book review: a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Author: Dave Eggers Genre: Biography, Memoir, Humor Publishing Date: 2000 REVIEW Favorite Quotes: “Because I was afraid that you’d be unpopular and...
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if at first you don’t succeed
I could tell you about the first time I was ever with a boy. He was 16 and I was 16 and we were foolishly, horribly, obliviously in love. Or maybe only I was. After all, it’s hard to tell with...
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my sexual education
Middle school sex ed. taught abstinence (over protection and preparedness). So high school offered only these choices: a.) Square b.) Slut But college, brought to you by the letter O, was a teacher of...
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book review: defending jacob
Title: Defending Jacob Author: William Landay Genre: Fiction, Crime Drama, Mystery, Thriller Publishing Date: 2012 REVIEW Synopsis: In a small, upper-class Boston suburb, a 14-year-old boy has been...
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When Christmas Comes
(Because some feelings will only be processed in writing) __ I tell myself I’ll be just fine, When Christmas comes to pass. I’ll wear a smile above my scarf— With mulled wine in my glass. __ I’ll play...
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Diamonds are forever
Jabbing it beneath my nose, she squealed. I said YES! Giddy coworkers descended, clamoring for details like gulls for a fry, their squawks muzzled by the ringing in my ears. What’s forever with you to...
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Christmas Confessions (It won’t be the same this year…)
As a general rule, I start listening to Christmas music each year around September 15th. That’s exactly 100 days before December 25th, and in my opinion, it’s totally fair game. In all the places I’ve...
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C for Clarity
Between the V-(card) and the X-(boyfriend), I found C for cruelty— Gift-wrapped In cold shoulders, callous caresses, blank futures. Between 22 and 23, I found C for confidence— Opened cautiously In...
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Repression
Somewhere, boxed away in the attic of my mind, lived the truth– dust-covered, mildew-stained– until the day she toppled over, spilling her rancid contents into my consciousness. And my forged reality...
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what can happen in an instant (a poem)
you catch my eye a bird takes flight a light flips on by switch you steal my heart a New Year starts a gambling man gets rich — our lips meet the cold retreats a baby comes to be we hold on tight day...
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book review: the night circus
Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magical Realism Publishing Date: 2011 REVIEW Synopsis: Le Cirque Des Revs is a traveling attraction open only at night. It...
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roots and wings
My childhood was rooted in the metro-suburba-pocalypse of Marietta, Georgia. I grew up next to the roots of the live Christmas trees we planted each year. (And I proudly named each one: Candy Cane, Cup...
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book review: paper towns
Title: Paper Towns Author: John Green Genre: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction Publishing Date: 2009 REVIEW Favorite Quotes: “If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the...
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This Kind of Hate
I’m not black. And I’ve never been the victim of a hate crime. But I do know something about this kind of hate. The kind born from ignorance. From unintelligence. The kind that never learned how to...
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Diamond Wedding Ring for Sale: $700
Back in the beginning—before forever, before goodbye, before everything—we sparkled. Our mouths ached from our gaping smiles. Our palms were damp from hours spent with fingers interlocked. Our bellies...
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To the ones who said, “It gets better”
When I lost her–my mother, my gypsy, my patron saint of love and kindness–the echoes first began. “It gets better. Just wait. It’ll get better.” I hated every person who offered me those words. For...
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