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Dear Ms. Robinson,
I have been a fan of your work since my then friend, now fiancé, read your essays aloud to me. You lay claim to a deep knowledge of the English language in your opening paragraphs, but then go on to use it. Not flaunt it. “All this is [...]

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Wii do, do you?

A paraphrased quotation from the better-than-I-expected kids’ film, Aliens in the Attic…
Twin#1:  “They turned off the gravity — like on Halo!”
Twin #2: “Except this isn’t Xbox! It’s real — like Wii!”
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I did not grow up playing video games or computer games. In fact, my family wasn’t real big on games in general. (My preferred [...]

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Umm, well, yeah …

So, somehow, I have found myself with a cat.
Our neighbors brought the flea-ridden, one pound kitten to our house last week. They guessed rightly that we would take care of her (something about the 4 cats presently living in the vicinity). Charity demanded that I make sure she wasn’t in pain, get rid [...]

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“I had much to write to you, but I would rather not write with pen and ink.  I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.”
–The apostle John to Gaius

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This American Life

I sit at the kitchen table at 1733, considering chocolate chip cookies. I rarely bake because I imagine that it requires a significant amount of time and energy. I see the hours upon hours of cooking time and the stacks of dishes with a realism sharper than reality. But I discover that [...]

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A Long Day

Yesterday, N—– cleaned his bathroom. By himself. Without being asked.
He cleaned the mirror with Scrubbing Bubbles.
Today, 10 minutes before my art class was scheduled to start, I asked him to re-clean it with Windex. A few minutes later he announced he was done and I went in to inspect his handiwork. Interestingly, I noticed the [...]

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We’re home owners!

So, after we made an offer and the bank made a counter offer and we made a counter offer to their counter offer and the bank countered one more time for kicks and giggles, we have got ourselves a house!
Of course, now all the less-than-fun paperwork and money exchanging happens… But we got the first [...]

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All right, so here’s a confession. Anytime I use three or more freeways to get to a destination, I get a little high. I love the southern California freeway system (and not just because my dad is a traffic engineer and I grew up taking scenic Sunday drives to see new carpool to [...]

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Several years ago, the day after returning from a semester studying abroad in Oxford, I found myself driving across Orange County to drop my younger sister off at a party. I say, ‘found myself,’ because it was a surreal experience. I drove through at least five cities on two major freeways and a [...]

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As those in my daily life already know, my ‘little’ white car (that I’ve driven since high school) finally died during the last couple weeks of the school year. I’ve been unbelievably blessed to have it last through my two year long 350 mile weekly commute. But, I will admit that I was [...]

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