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Winnowing down to essentials during a pandemic, a writer with too much time to think cleans out her closet and immediately regrets letting go of a sweat…
Pandemic Lit
September 27, 2021
July 7, 2021Photo by Chris Knight / Unsplash Despite political differences, a client finds common ground with his barber in 1990s NBA players and teams. Trimming my bangs, my barber starts up.…
June 16, 2021Photo by Daniel Tafjord / Unsplash Unrequited love I download a book. One of those books—for women. Certainly not porn, but you know. Never mind…
May 6, 2021Lupines / Photo by Robert Bradbury A writer in Newfoundland gets away—relocating for three weeks to Pinchgut Lake, only fifteen minutes from her home. Treating the change as “every bit as…
February 24, 2021Photo by Oscar Sutton / Unsplash During quarantine, a poet, essayist, and aphorist returns to the aphorism, the “sushi of literature.” If life has placed you on probation, best to p…
January 19, 2021Photo courtesy of the author Watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spending time in her backyard—a “precious contained universe, teeming with life”—a writer ponders whether we’ll…
January 14, 2021Photo credit: Elsa Noblet / Unsplash After 140 days at home, one person wants more space; the other, more plants. I wanted a room of my own, so I talked my husband into moving into…
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