NOT KEEPING SCORE

El Cerrito, CA
Being 26 means a whole new identity. Living at home, being cared for, yet feeling quite settled, self-sufficient and simple — I feel at once old and infantile.
I ask myself: Am I getting really, really old really, really fast… or am I just still really, really young? Consider the evidence:
Thursday — the night […]

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Phew! Back from New Mexico and I can’t tell you how nice this thing called sleep! In a bed, no less!
So, tomorrow I turn 26. I’ve decided to open up my birthday present to myself early. It’s a letter I wrote to myself at the new year. Let’s see… [opening envelope] It says (I’ve forgotten): […]

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Good-bye, New Mexico! And just when I’m leaving, I see green bulbs poking their head out of the dusty ground. Looks like there is life here after all, emerging only with the conclusion of my vacation — a sort of death, I suppose.
I went for a run this morning around the track at NM Highlands […]

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(nearly) Every morning I write down a list of things for which I’m grateful. Here’s my list for this morning:
Today I am grateful…
1. That despite my continued No Sleep Marathon in visiting my cousin I am feeling grounded and calm
2. For the 3 hours of sleep I did get
3. For the noisy drunk people last night who gave […]

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Fun Fact: My aunt, who I love dearly despite snoring, loves the color purple. You know the poem When I’m an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple? She’s a subscriber. Only, it’s not just her clothes. Everything, always purple. Her house: painted and furnished in purple. Her toiletries: purple. She even eats with purple silverware. […]

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Shit, I am dying. All talk of acceptance, and finally: put to the test. Right here, right now: death is upon me. I lie, unable to move, my head a collision of silence.
Stinging whiteness licks me with her pin-tounge as I try to let go. Relax into it she hums, consuming deathjaws over, wave-heavy, I […]

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Santa Fe, New Mexico
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The TV was left on all night and it fuzzes with soft whisper of melody — an American melody — that hums in every corner of this house. I woke early before life, and moved beyond snoring, into the flavor of stillness and steam make tea. Haunted? No, I don’t believe it, […]

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Ready to leave the state again? Here we go on a […]-long project where your author takes you along as she travels, staying on as many figurative couches as she can — and thus explores the inner and outer worlds in which we live.
Time to hop on board! Weeeeee’re off to: NEW MEXICO

First stop: […]

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A great video about Web 2.0, with some interesting responses on YouTube — all perfect examples of the conversations enabled by the form.
[For some reason I’m having a difficult time embedding, so I’m just gonna provide the link.]

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We’re on!
APRIL 28-29
SLINKYFEST SPRING 2007
*To find out more, visit the new Slinky website here.

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