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by Annie I’m mostly missing my tiniest toenail. No need for pity. I imagine it adds to my mystique. I blame my mother and her woefully scrappy excuse…
Nashville, land of honky tonk dreams. This small town big city is like Austin, Texas and Butte, Montana had a steel guitar baby. All the wee bricky homes of Butte,…
This time jet lag snuck in the back door, resetting the clocks like a teenage daughter out till dawn. Back in our Oakland bed, home from Denmark,…
Untreated anxiety is like a walk in the park—a park full of toothy gators and you’re a future dead meat chihuahua. <Side note, once an ex-boyfriend and I…
Alaska feels like the end of the other world. People who live in 24 hour sun or 24 hour night must, by nature, be extreme. I’m fascinated. Who…
There’s a spider who lives behind the driver’s side mirror of my car. For over a year she’s relentlessly rebuilt hundreds of blown down, torn down, and wiped off…
Hearts are tricky things. Sometimes they break. And I don’t mean break in the metaphorical, grief diet, lovelorn way. That “I can’t stop listening to ‘Sail’ by AWOLNATION…
It’s just not Mexico until I stand, eating tacos from the back of an old pickup truck, surrounded by strangers. A gallon container of homemade green salsa on…
I recently pulled a romantic comedy move and slipped a handsome stranger my digits. I was a first-timer to this strategy and it was kind of thrilling. He…