Category: Journal
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Taking the mic with my dad at WDVR
A few weeks ago I went back to Pennsylvania (again! for the third time in November alone!) to visit my dad and do a guest DJ spot on his Wednesday-morning radio show (shout out to 89.7 WDVR for serving our river towns with great community radio). It was a fun time. I love being in…
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Hometown sentimental
You know the trope-y-feeling plotline with the ex from your hometown? Who you never call and hardly ever think about yet you end up together every time you’re both back in town? And then you wonder about alternate timelines and what if you two were actually meant to be together and what does it mean…
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My Introvert Maybe: It’s not a people-pleaser’s No, it’s a door left ajar
While I’m not flaky — if I tell you I’ll be somewhere, I’ll be there at any cost — anyone who knows me probably reads my “maybe” as a no. If there’s a justifiable reason not to leave my house for an off-schedule peopling, I will find it. This is not my favorite trait. My…
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From writing retreat to stranded in the storm
Funny story: I went to the beach for a little Thursday-Sunday writing retreat and I got stuck there. I thought I could leave at the time I’d originally planned despite a nor’easter rolling in. Turns out if I wanted to leave at all, I needed to have done it at least a half-day earlier. Around…
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School pickup street reading is back in season and I love it
I have mixed feelings about driving in the city in general, and driving my kid to school in particular. As a kid myself I scoffed at peers whose parents chauffeured them to and from school every day. It was uppity. But we had yellow school buses. City kids don’t. While I would love for him…