NOT KEEPING SCORE

It’s been a little over 4 months since my brother’s passing. This is an interesting time, when the death is now very real but still freshly affects my life. I find myself mistaking my relative “okayness” with my “being done grieving” when, I’ll never be done grieving.
Life is in full swing now: Mom and Dad […]

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Tally so far: $60
Complaint #12: I’ve been subpoenaed.
Realization: Being in the right place at the wrong time blows. Complaining about it doesn’t change it.
I’m still pissed [statement of fact]. I’m very frustrated that I had to witness a woman fall in the hallway of my San Francisco apartment [fact] and two years later have been […]

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Tally so far: $55
Complaints #8, #9, #10, #11: I just don’t look the same in a bathing suit as I did when I was 20 [expletives deleted]
Realization: Whether it’s the admission that gravity is a force to be reckoned with, or “You mean I’m not a size 2 anymore?!” — sometimes the truth is ugly. […]

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Covered in poison oak at the moment, and barely able to type with calamine-encrusted fingers. Last time I ever take those damn dogs for a walk in the forest.

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Why Yes: it’s another sexy, modern, pithy, interesting internet interaction, just as you wanted: get your hypertexted butt over to SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir Project and submit yours.
(I figure this is my best chance at publication, because God Knows why anyone would want to read more than 6 words of mine*[1]… )
I came up with:
Sour […]

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As in: “Cha-a! You scored, dude!” And, of course, that which I am constantly Not Keeping.
Segway: I have to introduce you to a very cool idea: The Big Word Project, an attempt to redefine the meaning of words as re-associated with virtual places. People can purchase words at $1/letter and then assign them to their […]

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Moo: I love you. Come home.
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