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You let yourself think it—that pesky thought that maybe you’d like to date someone again. Two days later, you’re smooching someone on the back steps of your friend’s house, a party raging on the [...]

I’m moving on the tatami again and it feels fantastic. Inhale on preparation, exhale on execution. The fist will seek the centerline at the earliest possible moment. Hands and hands start and [...]

My heart and brain are scattered and tipsy, therefore tonight’s post will be comprised of resources: If I haven’t talked about it enough, Brevity is an online journal of concise literary [...]

When I lost my job I grew dead-set on leaving North Carolina. After months of frantic job, residency, grant, and fellowship applications, Spring afforded the opportunity to sit back and wait. I [...]

Slow and steady, my foot is healing. I’ve graduated from stitch-stitches to liquid stitches, to steri-strips, and now butterfly band-aids. Tonight I was able to do light karate movements on a [...]

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It’s my first night teaching children’s choir at the Episcopal church. I’ve been told I’ll have 7 kids for 30 minutes, ranging from ages 3 to 12. I’m being paid well for this, and the age range [...]

Arts Writer Drops Charges Katey Schultz, the arts writer injured by yard art almost two weeks ago, was seen this morning in Dr. Hero’s office carrying a six-pack of beer before noon, witnesses [...]

I’ve had two media-intensive weeks, whereby I committed to listen to Morning Edition and Democracy Now each day, catch up on my New York Review of Books, and continue reading The Week. (Latest US [...]

If you want to know the undisputed truth about US torture, be you a patriot or an anarchist, a pacifist or enlisted member of the Armed Forces, I do believe that reading the following essay is [...]