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Is there a place you’ve always wanted to go to? A thing you’ve always wanted to try? A bucket list item that you always bring up excitedly, but then follow it up with a gloomy, wistful “someday”? Is there something you keep adding to your want-to-do list? An idea bouncing around in your head that Continue reading
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Look for the Heart Shaped Pizzas
When I was in high school, I was part of my church youth group. On Wednesday nights, we would get together to worship, hear a sermon, and then hang out and talk. The boys liked to skateboard and play tag and do stunts that would make me say, “that doesn’t look safe.” And the girls Continue reading
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September & October Favorites
Happy Halloween, y’all! Fun (and at times controversial) fact: Halloween is not my favorite. I’ve never been very into costumes, I absolutely hate being scared, and one year in middle school I got my braces tightened on Halloween morning and I couldn’t eat any candy. #trauma. But while “spooky season” might not be for me, Continue reading
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A Golden Gate Birthday (Part 2)
Saturday October 1, 2022 On Saturday we woke up with a renewed determination to see the bridge. We’d been given advice: 11:00am – 2:00pm. That was the window. The no Karl window. So we took our time getting ready, popped into a café for a quick coffee and a pastry, then walked with new resolve Continue reading
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A Golden Gate Birthday (Part 1)
When I was in 8th grade, I went on a class trip to San Francisco. I remember eating Ghirardelli chocolate, I remember getting a migraine on the bus, I remember listening to Hoobastank in the hotel room that I shared with four other girls, and I remember the fog. En route to Seattle a few Continue reading
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This is What it’s Like to Listen to a Taylor Swift Album for the First Time
In August of 2017, my sister and I leaned into one another, a headphone in each of our ears. We were sitting in a high section of the Honda Center in Anaheim, CA, waiting for Dierks Bentley to go on stage. The room was echoing with people going to and from their seats. The clock Continue reading
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Permission to Stay Home
If you’re looking for it, or you know in the back of your mind that you need it, or if you’re just too afraid to ask for it, this is your permission to stay home. Consider this your field trip slip, signed and ready to be turned in. You can stay home. You can do Continue reading
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The New Apartment
Back in January, the apartment I was living in with my sister flooded. Or, as I prefer to say, my washer betrayed me. When our apartment officially went under construction, my sister and I moved out, and over the course of the next few months, my sister got married and moved in with her husband, Continue reading
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Lake Hair
“Hold on to your hats,” Natalee says as we float past the no wake zone. Will revs the engine and then punches forward. The boat shoots across the water, the wind beating at our faces. At first, it’s hard to keep my eyes open. I feel like I’m swallowing too much air. I hold onto Continue reading
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A Five Sense Check-In (Getty Edition)
About six months ago, I spent a Saturday at the Getty Museum. After walking around the various exhibits on display, I sat out in the garden for a little while, and before I left I did a five senses check-in and wrote the details in my notebook. I forgot about it for a little while, Continue reading
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