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My camping experience is limited and questionable. Is it really camping when you’re in a roofed cabin at Girl Scout camp? Or in a…
My visitor is neither houseguest nor fish, but he definitely meets that three-day criterion for repugnancy.
He’s a skink.
I did not know…
If I’ve made the mistake I think I’ve made, I’m in deep trouble.
My mistake was not in telling the tale of…
Everybody should have a movie buddy, that person – people if you’re lucky – who accompany you to any movie, any time. My movie buddies and…
I’d just like to register a concern about Mother’s Day.
Breakfast in bed.
Mother’s Day and breakfast in bed are shipped more…
I’m fully vaccinated, which for me means one thing.
I can’t avoid socializing.
As an introvert, the thought of hitting parties, joining the…
Tyrannosaurus rex teenagers were calamitous. Their presence altered any ecosystem unfortunate enough to host them. It’s possible they had a role in whatever freaky…
There is pen ink on the living room lampshade. Oil paint is ground into the family room carpet. A weird goo is crusted into the…
The long and short of this story is the scammer got my parents to purchase $2,000 worth of Best Buy gift cards.
And they…
I was married under a falsehood. Let’s just get that out of the way right now.
My intended had employed treachery and trickery to…
I have shared a few controversial positions, writing for this publication.
I don’t like the shore. I don’t find Disney World magical. The…
In a time when we’re so fractious, the internet appeared to unite on one opinion:
The video was creepy.
The series of TikTok posts…
I suppose the announcement last month from the CDC, the one nudging schools to get kids back full-time, should have given me that same…
I’m not sure where, exactly, my son’s sheets went. I know I handed them to him. I know I told him to make…
I’m going to Scotland.
Not today, obviously. Or tomorrow. Or in 2021.
Or in 2022.
Maybe 2024?
That feels depressingly far away.
Well, everything…
I heaved the box into my parents’ house. My mom stared at me in alarm.
“You’re out of breath!” she exclaimed in horror.
You…
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