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Five Years = Cured?
Just about at the exact time of my five-year cancerversary my boob broke. I woke up in a hotel room to caustic slime oozing out of an inch long fissure in my silicone prosthesis,...
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A Matter of Degrees
The high temperature for the day had been below zero when my twenty-four year old daughter wrote the above Facebook post. She was in Chicago on a New Years vacation layover before returning to her...
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OSO MUCH LOVE: What I want you to know about Oso, Darrington and the Stilly
I have wanted to write about the Stillaguamish River (known affectionately as the Stilly) and the towns of Oso and Darrington. I wanted to write about grief and hope, the power of small communities...
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Pardon me….my feminism is showing (explicit content)
Today a young employee (who is mistakenly secure in his position at work) told me that I was “too emotional”, a “control freak” and that I needed to “calm down” regarding my response to his blatant...
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Love Is All There Is.
Some days – or maybe most days – I feel like a visitor from another planet, distant and disconnected from those who seem to rule this one. The politics and behavior of this planet’s people confuse me...
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An Intimate Nature
I prefer to be outside rather than indoors. Better yet, outside away from all evidence of human infestation. As a teen, I wanted to study environmental science and imagined myself living in a cabin...
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MPHS is MY School
Photo by Pedro Gonzales This is not a story I ever thought I would have to write. One week ago, on Friday, October 24,2014, a fourteen year old boy asked his two male cousins and three female friends...
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Enter the Dragon….Again
I lost my job today. Well, I got fired to be exact, but I had an “End of Employment ” letter that said it was going to end on Sunday anyhow. I had planned on serving my remaining time in a...
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I Wouldn’t Want You to Think….
I have a secret. I’ve been told to keep quiet about it. Not that I didn’t already know that I should. After all, she said, you wouldn’t want them to think… It is true. I wouldn’t want you to. Here’s...
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How Do We Feel Safe In an Unsafe Place?
I drove to work today bathed in the thick scent of cheap cologne. It was the smell of violation and it made my stomach lurch. This morning I opened my car door to find the contents of my console...
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