Tag: community
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‘Til the Wheels Fall Off
I had some car troubles recently – my old and faithful steed simply stopped functioning. Like, I drove it to a restaurant, ate lunch, and when I went to leave the restaurant my car did absolutely nothing. He didn’t even act like he was trying to work. Through a network of friends (and their mothers,…
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Medication Side-Effect Roulette
There is just so much sleepy in my life right now. Fall weather, working out hard, and a medication change have all combined to make me one blink away from a long nap at all times. And I am not enjoying it. Now, we’ve previously discussed the topic of medication changes and how frustrating they…
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What’s In Your Cavern?
There’s a deep, dark cavern in my brain where blog post ideas go to die. It’s not supposed to be where they die. What the rest of my brain sees is a medium-sized cabinet where I tuck my ideas for next week or “sometime later.” I open up the cabinet, write an idea on a…
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Sickness in a Pandemic
For the past year and a half, my roommate has consistently spoken this refrain in response to most everything that happens: “What a weird time to be alive.” She’s right, obviously. Many weird and unprecedented things have happened and are happening, and we just keep having to adjust. No one knows how to be alive…
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Mitch and Dennis
I was standing in line in the grocery store this week during the evening “grabbing a few things in order to make dinner” rush, and the register line I was standing in had another register facing it, so I was standing next to the people in the other line. Two men were waiting in the…