The Cold War

This winter feels protective. The cold keeps me tucked away. The snow insulates what looks dead, and spreads clean, consistent color where there were organic browns, pale midwestern house paints, and silver cars smudged with road muck.

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Mental Exercise

I joined a “fitness center” this week, which made my friends suspect I might have a “brain cloud.”  To put a finer point on it, if any one of my gym teachers could see me on the treadmill, they would blow a valve out of their fit little hearts. I was the girl who would […]

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