1. At the DMV, met a retired kindergarten teacher who sang with her choir at the 1964 World’s Fair. 2. Expressed great gratitude that a man I would guess had Egyptian ancestry agreed to take my mom’s personal check to pay for the dumbass fake car inspection I needed so desperately. 3. Ate a beautiful […]
Read More What I Did On My Summer VacationThis summer: my tooth, my friend’s dad, the Supreme Court, presidential immunity, my sister, my aunt, the former president, the president, the new presidential candidate, my lower back, my softening jawline. I’m going to spare you the verbs and the direct and indirect objects. I think you get it. I’ve been reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s […]
Read More KaleidescopeTeeth are not bones. Despite being a common part of the skulls you’ve seen, bones can mend, and teeth cannot. Why? I wondered as I sat down to write about my most recent dental adventure. Yes, in my summer of first world problems, after a lovely weekend float trip, peacefully drifting down the Meramec River […]
Read More to the quickAll my siblings have mental health hurdles, but one of them has a worser case than the rest of us. This led to me being suddenly disinvited from an anticipated luxurious staycation around the same time as the first dead birthday of a friend. I’m kind of proud of that sentence, although it’s for me, […]
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