SOUTH OF THE ZOOM SCREEN Photo Courtesy of Sonia Nadales 0:00 / 0:00 South of the Zoom Screen Recently, I combined my light clothes with my dark clothes in the washing machine—an unthinkable act in my prior life. As the washer churned and my whites got dingier, I realized my universe had shifted. For good […]
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DON’T NEVER EVER GIVE UP 0:00 / 0:00 Don't Never Ever Give Up Years ago, I came across an older woman with a prominent tattoo. Amidst the wrinkles, I spotted, “DON’T NEVER EVER GIVE UP.” Immediately, the ghost of Miss Mercer, my ninth-grade grammar teacher appeared. She cackled, “A double-negative creates a positive statement!” Bad
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MAYHEM WASPS Photo Courtesy of James Wainscott 0:00 / 0:00 Mayhem Wasps In this year of our Lord 2020, I feel as if I’ve been in hand-to-hand combat with Mother Nature. Currently, I am covered in poison ivy. I have blisters on my body in places I heretofore did not know existed. The worst spots
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HOSTILE RESTING FACE Photo Courtesy of David Veksler 0:00 / 0:00 Hostile Resting Face Years ago, I worked as the program director of the Injury Prevention Resource and Research Center at Dartmouth Medical School. As part of my job, I lobbied for car seat/seat belt legislation in New Hampshire, a state whose motto is Live
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THE CONCEPT OF SKEEVY Photo Courtesy of Nathan Dumlao 0:00 / 0:00 Skeevy As far as I know, all of my maternal Italian American ancestors survived the pandemic of 1918. My theory is that they beat the Spanish flu because they governed their lives by the hygienic principles of skeevy. The word skeevy is Italian
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID Photo Courtesy of Youseff Naddam 0:00 / 0:00 Love in the Time of Covid On a recent morning, I awoke at five to the sound of our basement door closing two floors below. In order to keep me safer, my husband is now living down there in a little
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GENIUS Photo Courtesy of Lance Grandahl 0:00 / 0:00 Genius My seventh grade French teacher, Mr. Cook (name changed), was a bona fide genius. Or, so he told us every day, for ten months straight. We happened to be his first teaching job right out of a top-notch university. He said some strange twist of
COW PANTS AND THE MOON LANDING Photo Courtesy of Wolfgang Hasselm 0:00 / 0:00 Cow Pants & The Moon Landing When I was a teenager, I lived in a pair of shorts that looked like the brown and white mottled hide of a Holstein cow. I loved those shorts with an inexplicable fervor. Why was
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Dressing As If You’ve Given Up On Life Photo Courtesy of Qinghom Shen 0:00 / 0:00 Dressing As If You've Given Up On Life Last year, the locker rooms were under renovation at my gym. Each morning, I headed to a tiny, co-ed space where, for obvious reasons, no one was allowed to actually change.
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IN PURSUIT OF NATURE 0:00 / 0:00 In Pursuit of Nature Years ago, I wanted my friend, Meredith, to take me with her on a camping trip to Lake George. I deliberately didn’t tell her that I knew nothing about camping. I didn’t want her to ditch me for a more experienced companion. Up until
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